View file curl.php

<?php
/*
 * function to get via cUrl 
 * From lastRSS 0.9.1 by Vojtech Semecky, webmaster @ webdot . cz
 * See      http://lastrss.webdot.cz/
 */
 
function curlGet($URL) {
    $ch = curl_init();
    $timeout = 3;
    curl_setopt( $ch , CURLOPT_URL , $URL );
    curl_setopt( $ch , CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER , 1 );
    curl_setopt( $ch , CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT , $timeout );
	/* if you want to force to ipv6, uncomment the following line */ 
	//curl_setopt( $ch , CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE , 'CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE_V6');
    $tmp = curl_exec( $ch );
    curl_close( $ch );
    return $tmp;
}  

/* 
 * function to use cUrl to get the headers of the file 
 */ 
function get_location($url) {
	$my_ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($my_ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
	curl_setopt($my_ch, CURLOPT_HEADER,         true);
	curl_setopt($my_ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY,         true);
	curl_setopt($my_ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	curl_setopt($my_ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,        10);
	$r = curl_exec($my_ch);
	 foreach(explode("\n", $r) as $header) {
		if(strpos($header, 'Location: ') === 0) {
			return trim(substr($header,10)); 
		}
	 }
	return '';
}

function get_size($url) {
	$my_ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($my_ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
	curl_setopt($my_ch, CURLOPT_HEADER,         true);
	curl_setopt($my_ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY,         true);
	curl_setopt($my_ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	curl_setopt($my_ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,        10);
	$r = curl_exec($my_ch);
	 foreach(explode("\n", $r) as $header) {
		if(strpos($header, 'Content-Length:') === 0) {
			return trim(substr($header,16)); 
		}
	 }
	return '';
}

function get_description($url) {
	$fullpage = curlGet($url);
	$dom = new DOMDocument();
	@$dom->loadHTML($fullpage);
	$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom); 
	$tags = $xpath->query('//div[@class="info-description-body"]');
	foreach ($tags as $tag) {
		$my_description .= (trim($tag->nodeValue));
	}	
	
	return utf8_decode($my_description);
}
?>