function getLinkContent($url) {
    $options = array(
        CURLOPT_URL            => $url,
        CURLOPT_HEADER         => 1,
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
        CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 0,
        CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true
    );

    $ch = curl_init();

    foreach($options as $key => $value)
        curl_setopt ($ch, $key, $value);


    $str = htmlspecialchars(curl_exec($ch), ENT_QUOTES | ENT_SUBSTITUTE, 'utf-8');
    curl_close($ch);

    return $str;
}