CURL GET & POST in PHP

curl.php

<?php
function curl_get($url) {
  $curl = curl_init();
  curl_setopt_array($curl, array (
      CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
      CURLOPT_HEADER         => false,
      CURLOPT_URL            => $url,
      CURLOPT_USERAGENT      => 'useragent'
  ));
  $response = curl_exec($curl);
  curl_close($curl);
  return $response;
}

function curl_post($url, $params) {
  $curl = curl_init();
  curl_setopt_array($curl, array (
      CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
      CURLOPT_HEADER         => false,
      CURLOPT_POST           => true,
      CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS     => $params,
      CURLOPT_URL            => $url,
      CURLOPT_USERAGENT      => 'useragent'
  ));
  $response = curl_exec($curl);
  curl_close($curl);
  return $response;
}
?>

usage

$url = "http://some-rest-api.com/api";
$params = "param1=value1&param2=value2";
$response1 = curl_get($url . '?' . $params);
$response2 = curl_post($url, $params);