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fackz on 12/04/10


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gets the data from a URL

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  1. /* gets the data from a URL */
  2. function get_data($url)
  3. {
  4. 	$ch = curl_init();
  5. 	$timeout = 5;
  6. 	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
  7. 	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
  8. 	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);
  9. 	$data = curl_exec($ch);
  10. 	curl_close($ch);
  11. 	return $data;
  12. }
  13.  
  14. $returned_content = get_data('http://www.somedomain.com');
  15.  
  16. echo $returned_content;

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