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PHP CURL example#

<?php

function DownloadUrl($Url){

    // is curl installed?
    if (!function_exists('curl_init')){
        die('CURL is not installed!');
    }

    // create a new curl resource
    $ch = curl_init();

    /*
    Here you find more options for curl:
    http://www.php.net/curl_setopt
    */

    // set URL to download
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $Url);

    // set referer:
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://www.google.com/");

    // user agent:
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "MozillaXYZ/1.0");

    // remove header? 0 = yes, 1 = no
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

    // should curl return or print the data? true = return, false = print
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

    // timeout in seconds
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);

    // download the given URL, and return output
    $output = curl_exec($ch);

    // close the curl resource, and free system resources
    curl_close($ch);

    // print output
    return $output;
}

echo DownloadUrl("http://www.domain.com");

?>