A useful PHP snippit – cURL is a multi-protocol server communication library. The code below grabs the data of a url and stores each line in an array.

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$url = "http://google.com";
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 60; // set to zero for no timeout
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$rawdata= explode("\n", curl_exec($ch));
curl_close($ch);
unset($ch);

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