Make a PHP GET request from a PHP script and exit

Is there something simpler than the following.

I am trying to make a GET request to a PHP script and then exit the current script.

I think this is a job for CURL but is there something simpler as I don't want to really worry about enabling the CURL php extension?

In addition, will the below start the PH开发者_如何学PythonP script and then just come back and not wait for it to finish?

//set GET variables
$url = 'http://domain.com/get-post.php';

$fields = array(
    'lname'=>urlencode($last_name),
    'fname'=>urlencode($first_name)
    );

//url-ify the data for the GET
foreach($fields as $key=>$value) { $fields_string .= $key.'='.$value.'&'; }
rtrim($fields_string,'&');

//open connection
$ch = curl_init();

//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_GET,count($fields));
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_GETFIELDS,$fields_string);

//execute GET
$result = curl_exec($ch);

//close connection
curl_close($ch);

I want to run the other script which contains functions when a condition is met so a simple include won't work as the if condition wraps around the functions, right?

Please note, I am on windows machine and the code I am writing will only be used on a Windows OS.

Thanks all for any help and advice

$url = 'http://domain.com/get-post.php?lname=' . urlencode($last_name) . '&fname=' . urlencode($first_name);
$html = file_get_contents($url);

If you want to use the query string assembly method (from the code you posted):

//set GET variables
$url = 'http://domain.com/get-post.php';

$fields = array(
    'lname'=>urlencode($last_name),
    'fname'=>urlencode($first_name)
    );

//url-ify the data for the GET
foreach($fields as $key=>$value) { $fields_string .= $key.'='.$value.'&'; }
rtrim($fields_string,'&');
$html = file_get_contents($url . '?' . $fields_string);

See: http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php