- var_dump: documentation ( source)
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://maps.googleapis.com/");
$response = curl_exec($ch);
print "<pre>";
var_dump($response);
var_dump(curl_error($ch)); die;