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Introduction file_get_contents() is deprecated in favor of using the CURL libraries. You will occasionally run accross old code that uses the file_get_contents() that you want to use on servers with the file_get_contents functionality disabled. This shows how to convert from that function to the curl functions. [edit] file_get_contents code $data = file_get_contents($remoteurl); [edit] curl code //Initialize the Curl session $ch = curl_init(); //Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); //Set the URL curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $URL); //Execute the fetch $data = curl_exec($ch); //Close the connection curl_close($ch); //$data now contains the contents of $URL