[WordPress] Working with cURL, WordPress, and Valet

00-curl-example.php

<?php
try {
    $curl = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'GET');
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
    $response = curl_exec($curl);

    if (\is_object($response)) {
        return false;
    }

    if (false === $response) {
        throw new Exception(curl_error($curl), curl_errno($curl));
    }

    curl_close($curl);
} catch (Exception $e) {
    trigger_error(
        sprintf(
            'Curl failed with error #%d: %s',
            $e->getCode(),
            $e->getMessage()
        ),
        E_USER_ERROR
    );
}