function curl_download($Url){ // is cURL installed yet? if (!function_exists('curl_init')){ die('Sorry cURL is not installed!'); } // OK cool - then let's create a new cURL resource handle $ch = curl_init(); // Now set some options (most are optional) // Set URL to download curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $Url); // Set a referer curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://www.example.org/yay.htm"); // User agent curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "MozillaXYZ/1.0"); // Include header in result? (0 = yes, 1 = no) curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); // Should cURL return or print out 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); return $output; } //Example: print curl_download('http://www.example.org/');