If you want to fetch the error message, make sure you fetch it before you close the current cURL session or the error message will be reset to an empty string.
curl_error
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.3, PHP 5, PHP 7)
curl_error — Return a string containing the last error for the current session
Description
curl_error
( resource
$ch
) : stringReturns a clear text error message for the last cURL operation.
Return Values
Returns the error message or '' (the empty string) if no error occurred.
Examples
Example #1 curl_error() example
<?php
// Create a curl handle to a non-existing 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 'Operation completed without any errors';
}
// Close handle
curl_close($ch);
?>
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User Contributed Notes 4 notes
patrick at ibuildings dot nl ¶
6 years ago
paul at paulmcgarry dot com ¶
10 years ago
For a 404 response to actually trigger an error as the example seems to be trying to demonstrate the following option should be set:
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_FAILONERROR,true);
As per http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html
CURLE_HTTP_RETURNED_ERROR (22)
This is returned if CURLOPT_FAILONERROR is set TRUE and the HTTP server returns an error code that is >= 400. (This error code was formerly known as CURLE_HTTP_NOT_FOUND.)
anrdaemon at freemail dot ru ¶
6 months ago
curl_error is not a textual representation of curl_errno.
It's an actual error *message*.
If you want textual representation of error *code*, look for curl_strerror.
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3 years ago
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