Recursive download with curl and open_basedir

gistfile1.txt

    /**
     * Load data from URL with curl
     *
     * @param $url
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function loadData($url)
    {
        $curloptHeader = false;

        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, $curloptHeader);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, false);

        $safeMode = @ini_get('safe_mode');
        $openBasedir = @ini_get('open_basedir');
        if (empty($safeMode) && empty($openBasedir)) {
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
            $data = curl_exec($ch);
        } else {
            $redirects = 0;
            $data = $this->curl_redirect_exec($ch, $redirects, $curloptHeader);
        }
        curl_close($ch);

        return $data;
    }

    /**
     * Recursive cURL with redirect and open_basedir
     * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3890631/php-curl-with-curlopt-followlocation-error
     *
     * @param $ch
     * @param $redirects
     * @param bool $curlopt_header
     * @return mixed
     */
    private function curl_redirect_exec(
        $ch,
        &$redirects,
        $curlopt_header = false
    ) {
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

        $data = curl_exec($ch);

        $http_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
        if ($http_code == 301 || $http_code == 302) {
            list($header) = explode("\r\n\r\n", $data, 2);

            $matches = array();
            preg_match("/(Location:|URI:)[^(\n)]*/", $header, $matches);
            $url = trim(str_replace($matches[1], "", $matches[0]));

            $url_parsed = parse_url($url);
            if (isset($url_parsed)) {
                curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
                $redirects++;
                return $this->curl_redirect_exec($ch, $redirects, $curlopt_header);
            }
        }

        if ($curlopt_header) {
            return $data;
        } else {
            list(, $body) = explode("\r\n\r\n", $data, 2);
            return $body;
        }
    }