<?php
$headers = array (
    'X-EBAY-API-COMPATIBILITY-LEVEL: 507',
    'X-EBAY-API-DEV-NAME: ABCD',
    'X-EBAY-API-APP-NAME: EFGH',
    'X-EBAY-API-CERT-NAME: IJKL',
    'X-EBAY-API-SITEID: 0',
);
$accessToken = "AAACEdEose0cBAAAB8qnMVCmfNRQSNT2CCCTZBB90eMl7UpaFZBuYTAqWvYkhP9gJsoFd7ZAfAWxe6yTfh7jZBpaixhPHR6TO3n1xLiItM0FlccuVEy9x";
$url = "https://graph.facebook.com/me?access_token=" . $accessToken;

$repeat = 3;

/**
 * verbose
 **/
$start = microtime(true);
for ($i = 0; $i < $repeat; $i++) {
    $session = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_URL, $url); // Oops - wrong URL for API
    curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers); // Set headers to above array
    curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HEADER, true); // Display headers
    curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true); // Display communication with server
    curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // Return data instead of display to std out
    curl_exec($session);
    curl_close($session);
}
echo "Verbose time: " . (microtime(true) - $start) . " seconds.\n";

/**
 * fgc
 **/
$start = microtime(true);
for ($i = 0; $i < $repeat; $i++) {
    file_get_contents($url);
}                                                                                                                                                                       echo "File get contents time: " . (microtime(true) - $start) . " seconds.\n";

/**
 * andrewF
 **/
$start = microtime(true);
for ($i = 0; $i < $repeat; $i++) {
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);  // Return contents only
    //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1); // Display communication with server
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);  // return results instead of outputting
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10); // Give up after connecting for 10 seconds
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);  // Only execute 60s at most
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);  // Don't verify SSL cert
    $response = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
}
echo "AndrewF time: " . (microtime(true) - $start) . " seconds.\n";
?>