Can anyone please provide your own example for cURL ?

// Try to use file_get_contents, if it failes, try with cURL
function curl_get_contents($u)
{
    $data = @file_get_contents($u);

    if ($data === false)
    {
	  $c = curl_init();
	  curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, $u);
	  curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
	  curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	  $data = curl_exec($c);
	  curl_close($c);
    }

    return $data;
}