How to use curl to retrieve an url ?

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*curler (2009-04-23)

How to use curl to retrieve an url ?

Hi all,

Here is a very simple function to retrieve the content from an url, it uses the CURL function if it does exist only, otherwise the file_get_contents() function is used instead. Useful

<?



function retrieve_url($url)

{ 



if (substr($url, 0, 7) != 'http://')  $url = 'ht*p://'.$url;





// if curl not installed

if (!function_exists('curl_init'))

{

    return file_get_contents($url);

}



else

{

    // new curl resource

    $ch = curl_init();



    // set url where to download content

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

 

    // set referrer

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://www.google.com/");

 

    // set user agent

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "MozillaXYZ/1.0");

 

    // remove header or not : 0 = yes, 1 = no

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

 

    // curl may return or print the data : true = return, false = print

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

 

    // timeout in seconds

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);

 

    // get the content from url

    $content = curl_exec($ch);

 

    // close the curl resource

    curl_close($ch);

 

    return $content;



}

}





?>

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