cURL Simple Example in PHP:


cURL allows you to connect and communicate to many different types of servers with many different types of protocols.
PHP Supports libcurl.

Example:

<?php
        // initialize curl session
        $ch = curl_init();
       
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "example.com");  // set url      
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);//return the transfer as a string
        
        $output = curl_exec($ch);//output string


        // close curl session
        curl_close($ch);     
?>