PHP - Get contents of remote url using cURL

curl_get_contents.php

<?php
/**
 * Get contents of remote url
 *
 * @see https://knowledgecornor.blogspot.com/2013/10/filegetcontents-vs-curl.html
 * @author Travis Aaron Wagner
 *
 * @param  string $url URL to get.
 * @return string $output Remote url contents.
 */
function curl_get_contents( $url ) {
	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt_array(
		$ch,
		array(
			CURLOPT_URL => $url,
			CURLOPT_HEADER => 0,
			CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
			CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => 1,
		)
	);
	$output = curl_exec( $ch );
	curl_close( $ch );
	return $output;
}