You can save the cURL output as a string for further manipulation.

Following code takes care of:

// create curl resource $ch = curl_init(); // set url curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com"); // return the transfer as a string curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // save output to string $output = curl_exec($ch); // close curl resource to free up [...]