curl not printing result - php

Question

I've run manually the url from postman, and I've successfully connected and it printed it results.
But when I tried calling it from a method, no result is printing.
here's the curl code I used:
public function curlHandle($apiPath, $postArray)
{
$CI = & get_instance();
$conf = $CI->config->config;
$curlHandle = curl_init($apiPath);
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT,"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.57 Safari/537.36");
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT , 300);
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postArray);
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
$fp = fopen('/var/www/html/logs/curl_log.txt', 'w');
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_STDERR, $fp);
$result = curl_exec($curlHandle);
print_r(curl_error($curlHandle));
if ($result === FALSE) {
die(curl_error($curlHandle));
} else {
$data = json_decode($result, TRUE);
}
curl_close($curlHandle);
return $data;
}
Here's the content of curl_log.txt
Hostname localhost/codeignitertest was found in DNS cache
Trying 127.0.0.1...
TCP_NODELAY set
Connected to alocalhost/codeignitertest (127.0.0.1) port 80 (#0)
POST /test/process HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost/codeignitertest User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux
x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.57
Safari/537.36 Accept: / Content-Length: 142 Content-Type:
multipart/form-data; boundary=------------------------78a116d61ad4939d
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK < Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 21:19:43 GMT < Server:
Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) < Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache,
must-revalidate < Pragma: no-cache < Set-Cookie:
ci_session=ag85kv438n0ukb1rvrkb5cdfkrd8s2q6; expires=Tue, 30-Apr-2019
21:49:43 GMT; Max-Age=1800; path=/; HttpOnly < Expires: Thu, 19 Nov
1981 08:52:00 GMT < Content-Length: 14 < Content-Type: text/html;
charset=UTF-8 <
* Connection #0 to host localhost/codeignitertest left intact
also note that curlHandle() is from another project and localhost/codeignitertest but both are running in my localhost

Answer 1

You've issued this option:
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
Which means that curl returns the output from the remote server instead of printing it.
You then capture that output into a variable:
$result = curl_exec($curlHandle);
Which you then encode and return to your caller:
return $data;
This code shouldn't print the results. It returns the results.