managing curl output in php

Question

How do I hide the output from curl in PHP?

My code as it stands is the following:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, PSSWDINFO);
$result= curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);

The problem is that is spews out the entire page, how can I simply show a "success" or "failed" message?

Answer 1

Use this option to curl_setopt():

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

This will make curl_exec return the data instead of outputting it.

To see if it was successful you can then check $result and also curl_error().