help with this cUrl script

Got my sms script working, thanks the people here.. but for this little problem.

it prints the contents of $response without adding the print command and the ifelse function constantly returns the response of the first condition. Any help will be very useful
Here's the cUrl section of the script


$url = "http://www.bbnsms.com/bulksms/bulksms.php";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url.$request);
if ( "1801" == curl_exec($ch))
echo "Message sent successfully";
elseif (curl_exec($ch) == "1802")
echo "Invalid username";
elseif (curl_exec($ch) == "1803")
echo "Invalid password";
curl_close($ch);

From manual (http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-exec.php).
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. However, if the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER option is set, it will return the result on success, FALSE on failure.
So, you must set the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER option.

Thanks a lot...very helpful:thumbsup:

You should also replace multiple calls of curl_exec with something like the following

$response = curl_exec($ch);
if ($response == "1801")
echo "Message sent successfully";
else if ($response == "1802")
echo "Invalid username";
else if ($response == "1803")
echo "Invalid password";
curl_close($ch);

or
$response = curl_exec($ch);
switch($response)
{
case "1801":
echo "Message sent successfully";
break;
case "1802":
echo "Invalid username";
break;
case "1803":
echo "Invalid password";
break;
default:
// ??
}
curl_close($ch);

thanks for that, actually noticed that one and had already corrected it.