phpinfo() shows cURL enabled, I'm still unable to use it

There is not get_data function!!

You'll have to code one yourself as:

function get_data($url) {   $ch = curl_init();       curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);   $data = curl_exec($ch);   curl_close($ch);   return $data;}

Use this function. There is no get_data function:

<?phpfunction file_get_contents_curl($url){    $ch = curl_init();    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);    $data = curl_exec($ch);    curl_close($ch);    return $data;}echo file_get_contents_curl("http://www.google.com/");?>

I'm not an expert using cUrl... but I've never heard about that get_data() function being part of cUrl.

http://es.php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php

To make a query you must create a curl instance:

$curl = curl_init( $url );

And then you can execute the query with:

curl_exec( $curl );

...basically.

With curl_setopt (http://es.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php) you can set various options (I'm sure you will need to).

One option specially useful that makes curl even easer to use is:

curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );

This makes curl_exec() to return a string with the content of the response.

So the whole example ends like:

   $url = 'http://www.google.com';   $curl = curl_init( $url );   curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );   $content = curl_exec( $curl );   echo "The google.com answered=".$content;