What are the best practices for transferring data retrieved from a remote website to a local PHP page?

When transferring data retrieved from a remote website to a local PHP page, it is best practice to use cURL to make the HTTP request to the remote website and then parse the response data accordingly. This ensures secure and reliable data transfer between the remote website and the local PHP page. 

// Initialize cURL session
$ch = curl_init();

// Set the URL to retrieve data from
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://example.com/data');

// Set cURL options for data retrieval
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

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

// Close cURL session
curl_close($ch);

// Parse and display the retrieved data
$data = json_decode($response, true);
print_r($data);

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