- var_dump: documentation ( source)
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, __FILE__);
$filecontent = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
var_dump($filecontent);