How to use CURL instead of file_get_contents?

Question

I use file_get_contents function to get and show external links on my specific page.

In my local file everything is okay, but my server doesn't support the file_get_contents function, so I tried to use cURL with the below code:

function file_get_contents_curl($url) {     $ch = curl_init();      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);      $data = curl_exec($ch);     curl_close($ch);      return $data; }   echo file_get_contents_curl('http://google.com'); 

But it returns a blank page. What is wrong?

Answer 1

try this:

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

Answer 2

This should work

function curl_load($url){     curl_setopt($ch=curl_init(), CURLOPT_URL, $url);     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);     $response = curl_exec($ch);     curl_close($ch);     return $response; }  $url = "http://www.google.com"; echo curl_load($url);