PHP Get Web Page content using CURL

A very simple usage of curl to get a webpage content in to a variable, here we are using functions of curl namely curl_setopt and curl_exec

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Web page we are loading here is ‘upload.php’, What CURL basically do here is open the page, get the output of that page by executing curl_exec and assign it to variable $output.
Find the code below.

$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://localhost/lic/upload.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);    
echo $output;

Save the above script inside a file with the name curl_check.php. Once the webpage is loaded we will get the contents of localhost/lic/upload.php inside curl_check.php

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