/**
* Helper function to retrieve data with cURL.
*
* @param $url
* @return string
*/
public static function GetData($url)
{
if (empty($url)) {
exit("Link given was empty. Check your configuration.");
}
$cache = new Cacher();
$data = $cache->LoadData($url);
if (!empty($data)) {
return $data;
}
if (!function_exists("curl_init")) {
exit("You don't appear to have cURL installed or configured.");
}
$CH = curl_init();
curl_setopt($CH, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($CH, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip, deflate');
curl_setopt($CH, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, USER_AGENT);
curl_setopt($CH, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($CH, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_setopt($CH, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$data = curl_exec($CH);
curl_close($CH);
if (empty($data)) {
exit("Data downloaded was empty!");
}
$cache->SaveData($data, $url);
return $data;
}
