Ajax-like callback to remote page with php - php

Question

In javascript or jquery you a function can do a callback to remote webpage. The remote page does some processing and something/nothing maybe returned to the calling function.
For example: $.ajax(http://someurl.php?querystring)
How do I do this in php?
<?php
'Doing some stuff
remote_call(http://someurl.php?querystring) 'Let the page know I did stuff
'more php
?>
Everywhere I can find is either talking about a php function callback or reading file contents. I don't want to read the file contents, I just want to call the remote page and move on. Is it possible?
I can't answer my own question in this forum so I am putting the answer here.
Here is what worked for me. YMMV
$host = "http://somedomain.com/process.php?querystring";
curlMe($host);
function curlMe($host)
{
$ch = curl_init($host);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
}

Answer 1

You could just make a async request to the remote page by closing the socket immediately so the php code doesn't block and forget about the result.
<?php
private function request($body) {
$protocol = "http";
$host = "domain.com";
$port = 80;
$path = "/somepage.php" . $body;
$timeout = 10;
try {
# Open our socket to the API Server.
$socket = fsockopen($protocol . "://" . $host, $port,
$errno, $errstr, $timeout);
# Create the request body, and make the request.
$req = $this->create_body($host, $path, $content);
fwrite($socket, $req);
# ...
} catch (Exception $e) {
# ...
}
}
?>