Pass URL and it returns html by curl

get_curl_output_by_url

<?php
/**
 * This curl function might be useful when get_file_contents() cannot be used for any reasons.
 * E.g. when you need to pass user agent etc.
 *
 * Todo: return array with response code & the content
 */
	function get_curl_output_by_url ( $_curl_url ) {
		$ch = curl_init();
		$useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1";
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $_curl_url);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
		$ch_data = curl_exec($ch);
		$http_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
		curl_close($ch);
		if($http_code!=200) $ch_data = FALSE;
		return $ch_data;
	}
?>