This seems to work as expected for me - allowing me to get the content from a curl_multi operation into variables :(Thanks go to many other notes in related documentation (there is much copy/pasting) all I did was add the relevant line(s))<? $aURLs = array("http://www.php.net","http://www.w3cschools.com"); // array of URLs $mh = curl_multi_init(); // init the curl Multi $aCurlHandles = array(); // create an array for the individual curl handles foreach ($aURLs as $id=>$url) { //add the handles for each url $ch = curl_setup($url,$socks5_proxy,$usernamepass); $ch = curl_init(); // init curl, and then setup your options curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); // returns the result - very important curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); // no headers in the output $aCurlHandles[$url] = $ch; curl_multi_add_handle($mh,$ch); } $active = null; //execute the handles do { $mrc = curl_multi_exec($mh, $active); } while ($mrc == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM); while ($active && $mrc == CURLM_OK) { if (curl_multi_select($mh) != -1) { do { $mrc = curl_multi_exec($mh, $active); } while ($mrc == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM); } } /* This is the relevant bit */ // iterate through the handles and get your content foreach ($aCurlHandles as $url=>$ch) { $html = curl_multi_getcontent($ch); // get the content // do what you want with the HTML curl_multi_remove_handle($mh, $ch); // remove the handle (assuming you are done with it); }/* End of the relevant bit */ curl_multi_close($mh); // close the curl multi handler?>