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Following my last question again; This small script is supposed to grab my twitter friends feed and store the xml as a string. However, it keeps outputting all of the data (minus the xml, actually) to the browser. What am I doing wrong?

<html>
<head>
<title>Twitcap</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
  function twitcap()
  {
    // Set your username and password
    $user = 'osoleve';
    $pass = '********';

    // Set site in handler for cURL to download
    $ch = curl_init("https://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml");

    // Set cURL's option
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HEADER,0); // We want to see the header
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,30); // Set timeout to 30s
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_USERPWD,$user.':'.$pass); // Set uname/pass
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSER,1); // Do not send to screen

    // For debugging purposes, comment when finished
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,1);
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST,1);

    // Execute the cURL command
    $xml = new SimpleXMLElement( curl_exec($ch) );
    curl_close($ch);

    // Return the data
    return $xml;
  }

  $content = twitcap();
  echo "Hello, world.<br /><br />";
?>
</body>
</html>

Oh, in case it makes a difference, I am using Chrome.

+3  A: 

Not sure if it will help, but

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSER,1);

should probably be CURLOPT_RETURNTRANS F ER

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);

Brandon Horsley
HAHAHAHAHAHA. :(
Andrew
Yeah, that seemed to do the trick. Thanks a million, that was driving me crazy.
Andrew
Strange that you didn't get a "Use of undefined constant CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSER.." message in your error display or log.
GZipp