PHP, Don't Echo Out cURL

Question

When i use this code,

$ch = curl_init($url);
$statuses = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

I am returned what i want, but if i just use that - $statuses is echoed out onto the page, how can i stop this?

Answer 1

Put this on line 2:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

Answer 2

Include this option before curl_exec()

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);