How To Send A GET Request to HTTP using PHP

[receiver19]

As title mentioned,

 

for example, I want to send a get request to a permanent link(etc www.google.com) using php, the outcome will become google.com?0=name?

 

form is not the proper step, as in i need to type in the name. How do i send a request to http using php?

 

Thanks.

[michaellunsford]

http://us2.php.net/curl_exec

 

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "google.com?0=name");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$curl_res = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

 

results stored in $curl_res variable.

[receiver19]

Thanks for the reply.

However,

 

1. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com?0=". $email ."")

2. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com?0=abc%2Bdatacenter@gmail.com")

 

it works on the second, however the first one is not working. I think is the + sign. How can i solve it so that the browser interpret + as %2B?