cURL replacement for file_get_contents()

file_get_contents_curl.php

function file_get_contents_curl($url) {
   $ch = curl_init();
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, TRUE);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE); 
   
   # Actual fetch
   $data = curl_exec($ch);
   curl_close($ch);

   return $data;
}