<p>I know that this is a simple question for PHP guys but I don't know the language and just need to do a simple "get" from another web page when my page is hit. i.e. signal the other page that this page has been hit.</p>

<p>EDIT: curl is not available to me.</p>

If curl wrappers are on (they are per default), you can use:
```
```
file_get_contents('http://www.example.org');
```
```
Note that this happens synchronous, so before the request has completed, your page won't either. It would be better to log access to a logfile (or database) and export the data occasionally. Alternatively, you could do the request after your page has completed, and output has been sent to the client.