function file_content($_path) {
  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); //Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $_path);
  $data = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
  return $data;
}

A handy function to get the contents of a file with curl. Accepts $_path as a parameter.

A function to get a files contents with curl.

curl, php, function, files

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