Make Get and Post request using curl in php

First need to install curl module than can use below code to make GET and POST request using PHP.

 public function makeCURLRequest($url, $data = null, $method = 'GET') {

        if (empty($url) OR empty($data)) {
            return 'Error: invalid Url or Data';
        }

        //url-ify the data for the get  : Actually create datastring
        $fields_string = '';
        foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
            $fields_string .= $key . '=' . urlencode($value) . '&';
        }
        $fields_string = rtrim($fields_string, '&');
        $ch = curl_init();
        if ($method == 'GET') {
            $urlStringData = $url . '?' . $fields_string;



// Set query data here with the URL
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $urlStringData);

            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
            //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, '10');
        } elseif ($method == 'POST') {
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields_string);
        }

        if (curl_exec($ch) === false) {
            $error = curl_error($ch);
            curl_close($ch);
            throw new Exception('Curl error in url : ' . $url . " " . $error);
        } else {
            $content = trim(curl_exec($ch));
        }

        curl_close($ch);


        return $content;
    }

}

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