CURL request method

request.php

<?php

function request($url) {  
	$c = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 3);
	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_USERAGENT,'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13');
	$response = curl_exec($c);
	$responseInfo = curl_getinfo($c);
	curl_close($c);
	if (intval($responseInfo['http_code']) == 200) {
		return $response;
	} else {
		return '';
	}
}

?>