PHP code on curl - php

Question

THis code is not showing up the google home page. Please point out the error in it.
<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://www.google.com.kw");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
print $result;
?>

Answer 1

Remember that if your response is string-based; curl automatically encodes the response in utf8. So it might be necessary to decode the String to get what you want. Otherwise, your code is OK but here is another variant:
<?php
$serviceURL = "https://www.google.com.kw";
$curl = curl_init();
$settings = array(
CURLOPT_URL => $serviceURL,
CURLOPT_POST => false,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
);
curl_setopt_array($curl, $settings);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$response = utf8_decode ( $response ); // <== DECODES THE UTF8 ENCODED STRING.
if(curl_errno($curl)){
var_dump( curl_error($curl) );
exit;
}
print($response);
curl_close($curl);

Answer 2

Try This :
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://www.google.co.in");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: text/plain'));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate'));
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_ENCODING, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
$result = curl_exec($curl);
print $result;