Alternative for file_get_contents() using cURL

function curl_file_get_contents($url)
{
 $curl = curl_init();
 $userAgent = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)';
 
 curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_URL,$url); //The URL to fetch. This can also be set when initializing a session with curl_init().
 curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,TRUE); //TRUE to return the transfer as a string of the return value of curl_exec() instead of outputting it out directly.
 curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,5); //The number of seconds to wait while trying to connect.	
 
 curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $userAgent); //The contents of the "User-Agent: " header to be used in a HTTP request.
 curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, TRUE); //To fail silently if the HTTP code returned is greater than or equal to 400.
 curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE); //To follow any "Location: " header that the server sends as part of the HTTP header.
 curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, TRUE); //To automatically set the Referer: field in requests where it follows a Location: redirect.
 curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10); //The maximum number of seconds to allow cURL functions to execute.	
 
 $contents = curl_exec($curl);
 curl_close($curl);
 return $contents;
}

$file_content = curl_file_get_contents('http://25labs.com');

class timer
{
	var $start;
	var $pause_time;
 
	function timer($start = 0){	//Start the timer
		if($start)	$this->start();
	}
 
	function start(){	//Start the timer
		$this->start = $this->get_time();
		$this->pause_time = 0;
	}
 
	function pause(){	//Pause the timer
		$this->pause_time = $this->get_time();
	}
 
	function unpause(){	//Unpause the timer
		$this->start += ($this->get_time() - $this->pause_time);
		$this->pause_time = 0;
	}
 
	function get($decimals = 8){	//Get the current timer value
		return round(($this->get_time() - $this->start),$decimals);
	}
 
	function get_time(){	//Format the time in seconds
		list($usec,$sec) = explode(' ', microtime());
		return ((float)$usec + (float)$sec);
	}
}

$timer = new timer(1); // Constructor starts the timer, so no need to do it ourselves
 
/* ... mysql query ...*/
 
$query_time = $timer->get();
 
/* ... page processing ...*/
 
$processing_time = $timer->get();