curl sample code

gistfile1.php

<?php // RAY_curl_example.php
error_reporting(E_ALL);

function my_curl($url, $timeout=2, $error_report=FALSE)
{
    $curl = curl_init();

    // HEADERS FROM FIREFOX - APPEARS TO BE A BROWSER REFERRED BY GOOGLE
    $header[] = "Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5";
    $header[] = "Cache-Control: max-age=0";
    $header[] = "Connection: keep-alive";
    $header[] = "Keep-Alive: 300";
    $header[] = "Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7";
    $header[] = "Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5";
    $header[] = "Pragma: "; // browsers keep this blank.

    // SET THE CURL OPTIONS - SEE http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL,            $url);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT,      'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091201 Firefox/3.5.6');
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,     $header);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_REFERER,        'http://www.google.com');
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING,       'gzip,deflate');
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER,    TRUE);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,        $timeout);

    // RUN THE CURL REQUEST AND GET THE RESULTS
    $htm = curl_exec($curl);
    $err = curl_errno($curl);
    $inf = curl_getinfo($curl);
    curl_close($curl);

    // ON FAILURE
    if (!$htm)
    {
        // PROCESS ERRORS HERE
        if ($error_report)
        {
            echo "CURL FAIL: $url TIMEOUT=$timeout, CURL_ERRNO=$err";
            var_dump($inf);
        }
        return FALSE;
    }

    // ON SUCCESS
    return $htm;
}




// USAGE EXAMPLE
$url = "http://twitter.com/Ray_Paseur";
$htm = my_curl($url);
if (!$htm) die("NO $url");


// SHOW WHAT WE GOT
echo "<pre>";
echo htmlentities($htm);