CURL PHP Doesnt showing any result

Question

I want to get results from Google. According to web API doc of Google this is my code.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>testing</title>
</head>
<body>
    <?php
        $page = 10;
        $query = "Baby";
        $url = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=".$query;
        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)');
        $body = curl_exec($ch);
        curl_close($ch);
        $json = json_decode($body);
        var_dump($json);
        echo $json;
    ?>
</body>
</html>

But I am not getting anything on page neither error. Can anyone help me to figure it out why its not working and how to catch errors?

Have you checked error log? Have you checked that curl extension installed on your server? — u_mulder, Jan 17 '15 at 15:44
You have to check for errors with curl itself. Check [`echo curl_error($ch);`](http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-error.php) before you close the handle. — Michael Berkowski, Jan 17 '15 at 15:44
A blank page in PHP when output is expected, means _go look in your error log_. Always when developing and testing code, at the top of your script `error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors', 1);` — Michael Berkowski, Jan 17 '15 at 15:45
Or simply use: $json = file_get_contents("https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=" . $query ); — Adib, Jan 17 '15 at 15:45

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 17 '15 at 15:48

Can be thousand of reasons. Like, inability of cURL to establish an outbound connection because of some server misconfiguration....

Try looking at the page source. Is it displaying the </body> there? If not, then its a fatal error you don't see. Display errors ini_set('display_errors',1) to see them.

Use CURLOPT_VERBOSE to see what's happening. Try the following:

curl_setopt($curlhandle, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true);
$verbose = fopen('php://temp', 'rw+');
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_STDERR, $verbose);

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 17 '15 at 15:52

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The only error is that you are trying to echo object, returned by json_decode.

<b>Catchable fatal error</b>:  Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string in ...

answered Jan 17 '15 at 15:52

shukshin.ivan

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Well, I think, the error is not what you are looking for :) You should create output out of $json by yourself. It doesnt contain html markup, only clean data. – shukshin.ivan Jan 17 '15 at 15:55

CURL PHP Doesnt showing any result

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