Php Curl Function

<?php
function get_data ($url)
{
$ch = curl_init ();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$data = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
return $data;
}
?>