cURL

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Is cURL installed on my machine

apt-get install php5-curl

sudo service apache2 restart

Basic cURL call

// Define the url of the webservice.
define('CURL_URL', 'http://examples.dev/index.php');

/*
 * Basic cURL call.
 */
$ch = curl_init(CURL_URL);
// Return the response from the HTTP request as a string.
// If CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER is not set, cURL outputs the data immediately.
// Try commenting this line.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

print $response;