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There are various options available to get the content from the URL in PHP. You can get the file content from a remote URL using PHP. PHP file_get_contents() function is the easiest way to parse the content from a web URL.
In the following example code, we will fetch the ads.txt file content from URL in PHP.
$content = file_get_contents('https://twitter.com/ads.txt');
If the remote file contains JSON data, use the json_decode() function to convert it into a PHP object.
$data = json_decode($content);
To use the file_get_contents() function, the allow_url_fopen directive must be enabled in the PHP configuration file (php.ini). If allow_url_fopen isn’t enabled on your server, use the cURL method to get file content from URL in PHP.
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://twitter.com/ads.txt');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$urlData = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
