Question

I have to crawl some values from a website. Should I use curl for that or file_get_contents ??

I am getting some warning with file_get_contents at my localhost .

Any help will be appreciated

Answer 1

I think Curl is more preferable, as compared to file_get_contents as you can set headers, request methods like POST or GET, follow redirection etc. So, curl will be advisble

<?php
$ch = curl_init();
    $timeout = 5;
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);
    $data = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    echo $data;
?>