$clicurl = "curl -A 'Mozilla/5.0 (User-Agent)' -m 10 --interface ".OPERATING_IP." $url"; $check_result = exec("timeout 10s $clicurl"); var_dump($check_result); /// Confirms the curl result is whats expected if ($check_result === "378877jy6tjug832") { $online++; /// THIS line does NOT RUN! echo "Success!?\n"; // THIS line DOES RUN!!! } else { echo "\$check_result is equal to [$check_result]\n"; // THIS line DOES NOT RUN! fwrite($key_fail_log,PHP_EOL.date($date_format)." - Secret Code Returned: [{$check_result}]"); // THIS line DOES run but now $check_result is an empty string }