Managing curl output in php
Solution 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 $result and also curl_error().
Solution 2:
Also make sure to turn off this option:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 0);
Or else it will still print everything to screen.