$url, CURLOPT_HEADER => false, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => $ssl_verifypeer, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, ); curl_setopt_array($curl, $options); $response = curl_exec($curl); if ($error = curl_error($curl)) { throw new \Exception('CURL Error: ' . $error); } curl_close($curl); return $response; } }