title: Save cURL Display Output String in Variable PHP
body: <p>is their an option to save the outpout of a curl request in a php variable?</p>
  
  <p>Because if i only save the $result i get a 1 or nothing</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  $url='http://icanhazip.com';
  $proxy=file ('proxy.txt');
  $useragent='Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)';
  
  for($x=0;$x&lt;count($proxy);$x++)
  {
  $ch = curl_init();
  //you might need to set some cookie details up (depending on the site)
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url); //set the url we want to use
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL, 0);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxy[$x]);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent); //set our user agent
  $result= curl_exec ($ch); //execute and get the results
  print $result; //display the reuslt
  $datenbank = "proxy_work.txt"; 
  $datei = fopen($datenbank,"a");
  fwrite($datei, $result);  
  fwrite ($datei,"\r\n"); 
  curl_close ($ch);
  }
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>