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<h1 class="refname">curl_error</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4 >= 4.0.3, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">curl_error</span> — <span class="dc-title">Return a string containing the last error for the current session</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>curl_error</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">resource</span> <code class="parameter">$ch</code></span>
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Returns a clear text error message for the last cURL operation.
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">ch</code></em>
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<p class="para">A cURL handle returned by
<span class="function"><a href="function.curl-init.html" class="function">curl_init()</a></span>.</p></dd>
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Returns the error message or <em>''</em> (the empty string) if no
error occurred.
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<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>curl_error()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Create a curl handle to a non-existing location<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$ch </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">curl_init</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'http://404.php.net/'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">curl_setopt</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$ch</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">true</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br />if(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">curl_exec</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$ch</span><span style="color: #007700">) === </span><span style="color: #0000BB">false</span><span style="color: #007700">)<br />{<br /> echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Curl error: ' </span><span style="color: #007700">. </span><span style="color: #0000BB">curl_error</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$ch</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br />}<br />else<br />{<br /> echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Operation completed without any errors'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br />}<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Close handle<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">curl_close</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$ch</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.curl-errno.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">curl_errno()</a> - Return the last error number</span></li>
<li class="member"><a href="http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html" class="link external">» Curl error codes</a></li>
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