$ch = curl_init();
// echo $url; die;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("custom: header"));
$returned = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
There are many more options to do what you want in the PHP docs, don't they help.