Fsockopen

My host doesn't support fsockopen, it was disabled a few weeks ago. How should I modify the code?

<?php
// Last update: May 2, 2005 8:45 pm

function file_get_contents_an ($url) {
if (substr ($url, 0, 7) == 'http://') {
$url = parse_url ($url);
$handle = fsockopen ($url['host'], 80);
fwrite ($handle, "GET $url[path]?$url[query] HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: $url[host]\r\nConnection: Close\r\n\r\n");
while (!feof($handle)) {
$string .= fread($handle, 40960);
}
$string = explode ("\n", $string);
$string = array_pop ($string);

Somebody mentioned the curl function, anybody help me?

 

Seach DP for CURL code. I posted the example here twice I believe.