CURL CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER in conflict with CURLOPT_HEADER

Question

When I use both parameters in my curl:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true) and
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE)

I receive an empty data back.

Any idea why?

When I remove CURLOPT_HEADER , I have my response where I can convert to array. Only problem here is that the header isn't provided.

When I remove CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER , I get the full string (header and body). The only problem here is that it prints directly and I'm not able to convert it to an array.

Someone who has an idea?

Answer 1

try this

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost/api/upload.php');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
$response = curl_exec($ch);