// Get cURL resource $curl = curl_init(); // Set some options - we are passing in a useragent too here curl_setopt_array( $curl , array ( CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1 , CURLOPT_URL => 'http://url.com/?item1=value&item2=value2' , CURLOPT_USERAGENT => )); // Send the request & save response to $resp $resp = curl_exec( $curl ); // Close request to clear up some resources curl_close( $curl );