php file_get_contents() with curl

file_get_contents_curl.php

<?php

 function file_get_contents_curl( $url ) {

        $ch = curl_init();

        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, TRUE );
        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0 );
        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );
        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE );

        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);

        $data = curl_exec( $ch );
        curl_close( $ch );
        return $data;

    }