Access an exteral url using php curl

I will start will a working code:

<?php

$handle=curl_init('complete url here');

curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true);

curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

$content = curl_exec($handle);

if(!curl_errno($handle))

{

    $info = curl_getinfo($handle);

    echo '<br/> Took ' . $info['total_time'] . ' seconds to send a request to ' . $info['url'];

}

else

{

    echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($handle);

}

echo $content;

?>

This will first initialize the handle. Then it is setting properties which will be used to access the webpage.

After that it is checking for errors,if any. And finally it is printing the obtained webpage.

This can be modified a little bit by setting url external to curl_init:

<?php

$ch=curl_init();
$url="url";
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,5);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
$curlresult=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $curlresult;

?>