$c = curl_init();
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 15);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$content = curl_exec($c);
$status = curl_getinfo($c, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($c);