Curl retrieval of page or url

Simple way of retrieving data from an URL  using CURL

$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_URL,'https://esoftsolutions4u.blogspot.com'); 
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);  
$result = curl_exec($curl);
$http_status = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($curl);