get page content through curl call - php

Question

I'm trying to get content of a page through curl call. But I'm getting only an empty array. Here is my code
print_r(get_data('https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/in-9%2f20%3b/list-1'));
function get_data($url)
{
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
// the url to fetch
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
// return result as a string rather than direct output
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT,'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.52 Safari/537.17');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
// set max time of cURL execution
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}
I have also tried different method like file_get_contents function but always getting empty page.

Answer 1

given function is to complicated I think its a copy paste function, as I can see from
return $result; } which is not needed and you should get syntax error.
probably that code will work without that bracket.
I cleared and shortened code, and giving a working and (tested) solution.
NOTE: You can add the code I removed back
$url 'your url';
//Usaqe of function I recomend to use parse_url();
echo get_data($url);
function get_data($url) {
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}