get_url()

<?php

// Don't like fopen(), use curl to get contents
function get_url($url) {
	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
	$content = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);
	return $content;
};

?>