PHP: Using cURL

php-curl.php

<?php

// Initialize cURL
$ch = curl_init();   

// The URL to load 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.url-to-load.com'); 

// Uncomment the following two lines to send POST data
// curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST, count($post_data_array));
// curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($post_data_array));

// Fail on errors?
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);

// Timeout after X seconds
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30); 
	
// Set a custom useragent	
// curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "custom user agent"); 

// Do not include headers in the response
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

// Uncomment the following 2 lines to ONLY return the headers (Good for debugging)
// curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1); // header will be at output
// curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'HEAD'); 

// Uncomment to allow cURL to follow any redirects	
// curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);

// Some servers (like Lighttpd) will not process the curl request without this 
// header and will return error code 417 instead. Apache does not need it, 
// but it is safe to use it there as well.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect:'));
	
// Read the response 64000 byte chunks
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE, 64000);
	
// Return the result to a variable	
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); 
	
// Get the results and the HTTP status code
$results = @curl_exec($ch); 
$http_status_code = @curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

// Be sure to close the connection
@curl_close($ch); 

?>