How to catch cURL errors in PHP

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I am using PHP curl functions to post data to the web server from my local machine. My code is as follows:

$c = curl_init();
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
$result = curl_exec($c);
if (curl_exec($c) === false) {
    echo "ok";
} else {
    echo "error";
}
curl_close($c);

Unfortunately I am not able to catch any errors like 404, 500 or network failure. So how will I get to know that data was not posted to or retrieved from the remote?

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5 Answers

Since you are interested in catching network related errors and HTTP errors, the following provides a better approach:

function curl_error_test($url) {
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

    $responseBody = curl_exec($ch);
    /*
     * if curl_exec failed then
     * $responseBody is false
     * curl_errno() returns non-zero number
     * curl_error() returns non-empty string
     * which one to use is up too you
     */
    if ($responseBody === false) {
        return "CURL Error: " . curl_error($ch);
    }

    $responseCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
    /*
     * 4xx status codes are client errors
     * 5xx status codes are server errors
     */
    if ($responseCode >= 400) {
        return "HTTP Error: " . $responseCode;
    }

    return "No CURL or HTTP Error";
}

Tests:

curl_error_test("http://expamle.com");          // CURL Error: Could not resolve host: expamle.com
curl_error_test("http://example.com/whatever"); // HTTP Error: 404
curl_error_test("http://example.com");          // No CURL or HTTP Error
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    $responseInfo = curl_getinfo($ch);
    $httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
    $header_size = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE);
    $body = substr($response, $header_size);
    $result=array();
    $result['httpCode']=$httpCode;
    $result['body']=json_decode($body);
    $result['responseInfo']=$responseInfo;
    print_r($httpCode); 
     print_r($result['body']); exit;
    curl_close($ch);
    if($httpCode == 403)
    {
        print_r("Access denied");
        exit;
    }   
    else
     {
         //catch more errors 
     }
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