php curl get contents of url code example

Example: php curl get contents of url

<?php

// Get the contents of a URL
function curl_get_contents($url): string
{
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, TRUE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, FALSE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, FALSE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, TRUE);
    $response = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $response;
}