Simple php get url function with curl

get_contents.php

function get_contents($URL){
      $ch = curl_init();
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $URL);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
      $data = curl_exec($ch);
      curl_close($ch);
      return $data;
}