http://uk2.php.net/fopen fread some bytes if necessary. It will load the URL but not require your PHP script gets the contents. (If you meant without outputting, just use cURL/fgc.)
Assuming it's an external URL, http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php might be preferable. Dan.
u can also use an html iframe for this like: echo "<iframe src=\"$website\" height='0' width='0'></iframe>"; Code (markup):
@OP Can you be please more precise, what you want to do with the url, so we can give the code exactly as required.
$fp = fsockopen ("www.example.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30); if (!$fp) { echo "$errstr ($errno)<br>\n"; } else { fputs ($fp, "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: www.example.com\r\n\r\n"); $content = fgets ($fp,128); fclose ($fp); } Code (markup): something like this