php: Get html source code with cURL

$curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);

Source: http://www.christianschenk.org/blog/php-curl-allow-url-fopen/

Try http://php.net/manual/en/curl.examples-basic.php :)

<?php

$ch = curl_init("http://www.example.com/");
$fp = fopen("example_homepage.txt", "w");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
?>

As the documentation says:

The basic idea behind the cURL functions is that you initialize a cURL session using the curl_init(), then you can set all your options for the transfer via the curl_setopt(), then you can execute the session with the curl_exec() and then you finish off your session using the curl_close().

Try the following:

$ch = curl_init("http://www.example-webpage.com/file.html");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, true);
$content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

I would only recommend this for small files. Big files are read as a whole and are likely to produce a memory error.

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EDIT: after some discussion in the comments we found out that the problem was that the server couldn't resolve the host name and the page was in addition a HTTPS resource so here comes your temporary solution (until your server admin fixes the name resolving).

what i did is just pinging graph.facebook.com to see the IP address, replace the host name with the IP address and instead specify the header manually. This however renders the SSL certificate invalid so we have to suppress peer verification.

//$url = "https://graph.facebook.com/19165649929?fields=name";
$url = "https://66.220.146.224/19165649929?fields=name";
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Host: graph.facebook.com'));
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch); 

Keep in mind that the IP address might change and this is an error source. you should also do some error handling using curl_error();.