Simple Curl Example

Simple Curl Example

function curl_download($url, $referer, $browserAgent){

    if (!function_exists('curl_init')){die('Sorry cURL is not installed!');}
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);			 		// Set URL to download
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer);			// Set a referer
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $browserAgent);	 	// User agent
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);					// include header?
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);			// print out the data?
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);					// Timeout in seconds
    $output = curl_exec($ch);								// return output
    curl_close($ch);										// Close the cURL
 
    return $output;
}