$url='http://example.com/';
$ch=curl_init();
$timeout=5;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$result=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $result;