What are some methods to read the content of a URL and store it in a variable using PHP?

To read the content of a URL and store it in a variable using PHP, you can use the file_get_contents() function. This function allows you to retrieve the contents of a file or URL and store it in a variable for further processing. Simply provide the URL as the parameter to file_get_contents() and assign the result to a variable. 

$url = 'https://www.example.com';
$content = file_get_contents($url);
echo $content;

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