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How can a PHP script access a URL without the need for user interaction or opening a new window?

To access a URL without the need for user interaction or opening a new window, you can use PHP's cURL library. cURL allows you to make HTTP requests to a specified URL and retrieve the response directly within your PHP script.

php 
<?php
// Initialize cURL session
$ch = curl_init();

// Set the URL to access
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://example.com/api');

// Set cURL option to return the response instead of outputting it
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// Execute the cURL session and store the response
$response = curl_exec($ch);

// Close the cURL session
curl_close($ch);

// Output the response
echo $response;
?>

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