Get Data from an URL using cURL

$url = 'http://www.domain.hu/user/getUsers';
 
/* gets the data from a URL */
 
function get_data($url)
{
  $ch = curl_init();
  $timeout = 60;
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);
  $data = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
  return $data;
}