like get_file_contents
function curl_get($url, $gzip=false){
$curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10);
if($gzip) curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "gzip");
$content = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
return $content;
}