curlContents

function curlContents($url=false, $data=array()) {
	$contents = '';
	if ($url) {
		$ch = curl_init();
		$timeout = 0; // set to zero for no timeout
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, true);
		if (count($data) > 0) {
			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
		}
		$contents = curl_exec($ch);
		curl_close($ch);
	}
	return $contents;
}