Curl example

CmsComponent.php

/**
     * Curl request
     * @param type $url
     * @return type
     */
    public function getCurlResponse($url) {
        $ch_req = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch_req, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        curl_setopt($ch_req, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch_req, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 0);
        curl_setopt($ch_req, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch_req, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
        curl_setopt($ch_req, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 30);
        curl_setopt($ch_req, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)');
        $curl_result = curl_exec($ch_req);
        $info = curl_getinfo($ch_req);
        curl_close($ch_req);

        return array(
            'result' => $curl_result,
            'info' => $info,
        );
    }