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Wrote this for one of my projects - hopefully it helps you out a little bit. POST data needs to be formatted variable1=value&variable2=value2 and urlencoded.

function CURL($url, $postdat=""){
	$ch = curl_init($url);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)");
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
	if($postdat){
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdat);
	}
	while(!$dat) $dat = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);
	return $dat;
}

Examples:

$dat = CURL("http://google.com");
$dat = CURL("http://site.com/post.php", "search=bunnies");

Sorry I haven't had much content lately: finals this week :-\