PHP cURL get or save simple stuff

curl_get_or_save_functions.php

<?php
/****************************************************************************
		PHP CURL functions for getting data or asytnchronously saving it to file.
		It is header redirect tolerant. like the 302 http status.

		Save data to file with cURL: save_data_to_file_w_curl($url,$pathToFile);
		Get data with cURL get_data_w_curl($url);

		/**
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		 * Copyright (c) 2012 Agustin Amenabar <[email protected]>
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		 * @link        http://medula.cl/
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****************************************************************************/


function save_data_to_file_w_curl($url,$fname) {
  $timeout=5;
  $path = $fname;
 
  $fp = fopen($path, 'w');
  $ch = curl_init($url);
  //curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1" );//sometimes you may need this.
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true );
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "" );
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true );
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false );    # required for https urls
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout );
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout );
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 10 );

  $response = curl_exec($ch);
  //echo print_r(curl_getinfo($ch),true);//just for checking
  if(!$response)$response=print_r(curl_getinfo($ch),true);
  curl_close($ch);
  fclose($fp);
  return $response;//true or array with CURL INFO
}

function get_data_w_curl($url) {
  $timeout=5;
  $ch = curl_init($url);
  //curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1" );//you might need this in some ocations
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true );
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "" );
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true );
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false );    # required for https urls
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout );
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout );
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 10 );

  $data = curl_exec($ch);
  //echo print_r(curl_getinfo($ch),true);//for debugging
  $toReturn=$data;
  if(!$data)$toReturn=print_r(curl_getinfo($ch),true);
  curl_close($ch);
  return $data;
}

/*****************************************
      USE EXAMPLE (un comment to test)
*******************************************/

//echo get_data_w_curl('http://www.example.com');//this gets the contents of http://www.iana.org/domains/example/ which is a redirect from example.com

//echo get_data_w_curl('http://www.example.com','./iana-example.html');//this gets the contents of http://www.iana.org/domains/example/ which is a redirect from example.com and saves them to iana-example.html

?>

Useful, thanks

Both functions are working well.
save_data_to_file_w_curl('http://www.example.com','./iana-example.html') //this gets the contents of http://www.iana.org/domains/example/ which is a redirect from example.com and saves them to iana-example.html

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