php curl to access a site

$url = 'http://www.google.com';

//open connection

$options = array(

CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, // return web page

CURLOPT_HEADER => false, // don't return headers

CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true, // follow redirects

CURLOPT_ENCODING => "", // handle all encodings

CURLOPT_USERAGENT => "spider", // who am i

CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER => true, // set referer on redirect

CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120, // timeout on connect

CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 120, // timeout on response

CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10, // stop after 10 redirects

);

$ch = curl_init();

//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);

curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options );

//execute post

$result = curl_exec($ch);

$header = curl_getinfo( $ch );

echo $result;

//close connection

curl_close($ch);

?>