<?php
# url_get_contents function by Andy Langton: http://andylangton.co.uk/
function url_get_contents($url,$useragent='cURL',$headers=false,$follow_redirects=false,$debug=false) {
# initialise the CURL library
$ch = curl_init();
# specify the URL to be retrieved
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
# we want to get the contents of the URL and store it in a variable
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
# specify the useragent: this is a required courtesy to site owners
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
# ignore SSL errors
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
# return headers as requested
if ($headers==true){
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER,1);
}
# only return headers
if ($headers=='headers only') {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY ,1);
}
# follow redirects - note this is disabled by default in most PHP installs from 4.4.4 up
if ($follow_redirects==true) {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
}
# if debugging, return an array with CURL's debug info and the URL contents
if ($debug==true) {
$result['contents']=curl_exec($ch);
$result['info']=curl_getinfo($ch);
}
# otherwise just return the contents as a variable
else $result=curl_exec($ch);
# free resources
curl_close($ch);
# send back the data
return $result;
}
?>