在CLI中静默PHP cURL输出

Question

I am working on a scrapper (in PHP) and use cURL to fetch pages. The script can be run both in CLI & browser. This is my first time working with PHP on CLI and I was trying to make the screen pretty and have a nice data representation like scrape statistics show up.

I am able to generate the output the way I want it, well almost. But with every cURL request the server makes, it also outputs this the extra header information like this :

* About to connect() to imbd.com port 80 (#0)
*   Trying 123.111.222.333... * connected
> GET /categories/something.html HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:21.0) Gecko/20130401 Firefox/21.0
Host: imdb.com
Accept: */*

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: nginx/1.4.1
< Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2013 02:17:06 GMT
< Content-Type: text/html
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Connection: keep-alive
< Vary: Accept-Encoding
< X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.17
< Set-Cookie: mobileType=0%something; expires=Wed, 01-Jan-2014 02:17:06 GMT; path=/; domain=.imdb.com
< 
* Connection #0 to host imdb.com left intact
* Closing connection #0
...
Statistics
...

Function that uses cURL

    public function getHTML($url) 
    {
        $user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; U; zh-cn; rv:1.9.1.6) ...";

        $options = Array(
            CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE,  
            CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => TRUE,  
            CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER => TRUE,
            CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120,
            CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 120,
            CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
            CURLOPT_USERAGENT => $user_agent,
            CURLOPT_URL => $url,
        CURLOPT_VERBOSE => true,
        CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false,
        );
        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);
        $data = curl_exec($ch);
        curl_close($ch);
        return $data;
    }

Now all I want to do is hide this information from the CLI as it does in the browser. Had it been cli curl, i would use -s to shut it up. But I am unable to find an PHP alternative for this. Also, CURLOPT_MUTE is depreciated. All Google gave me was to set CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER true, which I already have.

Also I would like to know how can I avoid setting any cookies to avoid tracking.

If it helps in any way I am using

• OS : Ubuntu
• Software : PHP5.5
• Framework : CodeIgniter 3.0-dev
• Extension: cURL
• Interface : Command Line (Terminal)

Answer 1

Remove this.

CURLOPT_VERBOSE => true,

According to php manual

Set value to

TRUE to output verbose information. Writes output to STDERR, or the file specified using CURLOPT_STDERR.