Requesting web page data using CURL

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I have a sample PHP script where I am posting data to UPS using curl, and then getting the data returned. The problem I am having is when I get curl_exec to pull the data and store it in a variable, it is actually printing it out on the web page. Does someone see a problem with this script on why its pulling the data and printing it instead of storing in the $result variable?

 

 

$xmlRequest =  "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n".
            "<AccessRequest>\n".
            "   <AccessLicenseNumber>" . $LicenseNumber . "</AccessLicenseNumber>\n".
            "   <UserId>" . $Username . "</UserId>\n".
            "   <Password>" . $Password . "</Password>\n".
            "</AccessRequest>\n".
            "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n".
            "<AddressValidationRequest xml:lang=\"en-US\">\n".
            "   <Request>\n".
            "       <TransactionReference>\n".
            "           <CustomerContext>MarketingWebForce.com</CustomerContext>\n".
            "           <XpciVersion>1.0001</XpciVersion>\n".
            "       </TransactionReference>\n".
            "       <RequestAction>AV</RequestAction>\n".
            "   </Request>\n".
            "   <Address>\n";
$xmlRequest  .= "       <City>Oklahoma City</City>\n";
$xmlRequest .= "       <StateProvinceCode>OK</StateProvinceCode>\n";
$xmlRequest   .= "       <PostalCode>73142</PostalCode>\n";
$xmlRequest .= "   </Address>\n".
            "</AddressValidationRequest>";
                  
//set POST variables
$url = 'https://wwwcie.ups.com/ups.app/xml/AV';

//open connection
$ch = curl_init();

//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,'1');
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$xmlRequest);

[color=red]//execute post
echo "<hr>PULLING DATA<br>";
$result = curl_exec($ch);
echo "<hr>DATA PULLED<br>";[/color]

//close connection
curl_close($ch);

echo "<hr>PRINTING DATA<br>";
print_r($result);
echo "<hr>DATA PRINTED<br>";