To put custom User-Agent value with file_get_contents, you will need to create a stream_content.
Below example, show how to make a call with custom HTTP_USER_AGENT
// custom_file_get_contents by Chun Kang (ck@ckii.com) function custom_file_get_contents( $url, $custom_http_user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (CentOS; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.150 Safari/537.36 (ck)") { // define options $options = [ "http"=> [ // it must be http, not https "method"=>"GET", "header"=> "User-Agent: {$http_user_agent}\r\n" ] ]; $context = stream_context_create($options); $buff=@file_get_contents( $url, false, $context); return $buff; } echo custom_file_get_contents( "http://yahoo.com"); echo "\n\n" echo custom_file_get_contents( "https://yahoo.com");