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		fuzzmeister on July 16, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What's your most-used function that you wr... PHP function to perform a basic cURL request and return the result. Got a little bit tired of writing "curl_setopt(...".

dmpatierno on July 16, 2011 [–]

Typically this is what file_get_contents() is for (with fopen_wrappers enabled) if you just want a simple GET.

troels on July 16, 2011 | [–]

In newer versions of PHP, you can use `stream_context_create` to make post requests and more, using `file_get_contents`

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