very simple wrapper for cURL that creates a local file cache
usage: created a folder named "cache" in the same folder as this file and chmod it 777 call this function with 2+1 parameters:
$curlReturn = simpleCachedCurl($url,$expires,$debug);
$url (string) the URL of the data that you would like to load
$expires (integer) the amound of seconds the cache should stay valid
$debug (boolean, optional) write debug information for troubleshooting
returns either the raw cURL data or false if request fails and no cache is available
- PHP cURL (php5-curl)