CURL statements combine into one - php

Question

I have a bunch of curl statements in my app controller file. How can I possibly combine them all into one curl statement. Is it even possible. Thanks
// used for curl and curl_post
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT,'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13');
// used for curl_twitter
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT,'spider');
// used for curl_post, curl_auth
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST, count($post_data_count));
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_data_string);
// used for curl_twitter
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 15);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 20);C

Answer 1

If you use the same curl statement evey time you should create a function and juste pass by parameter the wanted change.
function curlPerform($url, $postfields, $useragent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13'){
$ch = curl_init($url);
// used for curl and curl_post
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
// used for curl_post, curl_auth
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST, count($postfields));
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);
// used for curl_twitter
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 15);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 20);
$reponse = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $reponse;
}
$reponse = curlPerform($yourUrl, $yourPostFields); // Each time that you want to run a curl request just call this function DRY
Or use curl_setopt_array
$ch = curl_init();
$options = array(CURLOPT_URL => 'http://www.example.com/',
CURLOPT_HEADER => false
);
curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);