PHP URL Access Methods: Complete Guide

1. Accessing URL using the built-in PHP function file_get_contents().

$url = 'http://www.example.com';
$content = file_get_contents($url);

1. Use the cURL library to access a URL.

$url = 'http://www.example.com';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

1. Open an URL and read its content using the fopen() function.

$url = 'http://www.example.com';
$handle = fopen($url, 'r');
$content = stream_get_contents($handle);
fclose($handle);

All of these methods can be used to access URLs and retrieve their content, choose the method that best suits your needs to obtain web page content.