Hello everyone. I have a CURL statement below and for some reason my variable ($result1) does not want to work in my if statement that follows. I can get the variable($result1) to echo onto the page but for some reason I cannot get the if statement to work with $result1. Any ideas?

PHP Code:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://socket.somewebsite.com:8080/?UID=1234&REQUEST=INV&VIN=$myVin&INV_DATE=N&ONE_OWNER=Y");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$result1 = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $result1;
if($result1 == 'Yes 1') {
        echo "<br />We have a Winner!";
        }
    if($result1 == 'Yes N') {
        echo "<br />Not a One Owner";
        } 


What you can conclude is that the returned value doesn't match either.
If you are certain the word is in there, just use strpos or a regular expression match.

I am not sure I follow what you are saying. I have been able to get this far with it but for some reason I am still not able to capture the 'N' value on its own. When I view the source it appears as though there is a line break but when I try trim() it still does not work. So if I get a value of 'Yes' with a $oneOwner value of '1' my code works but if I get a value of 'Yes' with a $oneOwner value of 'N' my code does not work. Again I tried trim() to remove any ASCII characters but still does not appear to work.

PHP Code:

$rest = substr($result1, 0, 3);
echo "This is the first result: ".$rest;

echo "<br />";

$oneOwner = substr($result1, 4);
$oneOwner = rtrim($oneOwner);
echo "This is the second result: ".$oneOwner;

if($rest == 'Yes') {
    if($oneOwner == 'N') {
        echo "<br />Report has been run but not a 1 owner.";
            }
    if($oneOwner == '1') {
        echo "<br />One Owner";
            }
        }
    if($rest == 'No') {
        echo "<br />Report Not Run";
        } 


Thanks for the info. I was able to come up with a solution based off of what you gave me. All though I must say my CURL execution time is taking quite a while. Any ideas on how to speed this up or possible quicker solution(s) for sending data to a remote server and capturing the response back on my end.

It's taking long because of the server you're sending it too, I think.
cURL is quick enough that there aren't any improvements you could make.

I wish that were the case. If you type the URL directly in the browser the time it takes for the remote server to execute a response is less than 1 second. So somehow or somewhere this is bottlenecking and I can't quite figure it out.

Hmm.
Maybe you should put in some timers in your script at certain places?

Like before and after the curl exec.