PHP curlPost

protected function curlPost($url, $data) {
        $ch = curl_init ();
        $header = array("Accept-Charset: utf-8");
        curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
        curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST" );
        curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE );
        curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, FALSE );
        curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header );
        curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)' );
        curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1 );
        curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, 1 );
        curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data );
        curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
        $tmpInfo = curl_exec ( $ch );
        $errorno = curl_errno ( $ch );
        return $tmpInfo;
    }