PHP curl_error function

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.3, PHP 5)

curl_error — Returns a string protecting the most recent error for the current session

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 string curl_error (resource $ch)

Returns an explicit textual error message from the most recent cURL operation.

parameter

ch

The cURL handle returned by curl_init().

return value

Returns an error message or '' (empty string) if no errors occurred.

Example

 <?php// Create a cURL handle pointing to a non-existent location $ch = curl_init('http://404.php.net/');curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);if(curl_exec($ ch) === false){ echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($ch);}else{ echo 'The operation was completed without any errors';}// Close the handle curl_close($ch);?>

See

curl_errno() - returns the last error number

» Curl error codes