Storing CURL Response in a Variable in PHP

The following setting forces the server response to be saved into a variable instead of being output to the browser page:

curl.php<?php
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
?>

Let's adjust the code according to this setting:

curl.php<?php
  // Page URL for the request:
  $url = 'http://test.loc';
  
  // Initialize the session:
  $curl = curl_init();
  
  // Specify the page URL:
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  
  // Save the server response to a variable:
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  
  // Execute the request, saving the response to a variable:
  $res = curl_exec($curl);
  
  // See what's in the variable:
  var_dump($res);
?>