function getUrl($url, $requestType = 'GET', $timeout = 30)
{
$curl = new curl();
$curl->curl($url);
if ($requestType == "POST") {
$postString = "";
foreach ($postArray as $postField => $postValue) {
$postString .= "{$postField}=" . $postValue . "&";
}
$postString .= "Enter=";
$curl->setopt(CURLOPT_POST, 1);
$curl->setopt(CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postString);
}
$curl->setopt(CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
$curl->setopt(CURLOPT_USERAGENT, MAGPIE_USER_AGENT);
$curl->setopt(CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
// allow redirects
$curl->setopt(CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
// return into a variable
$curl->setopt(CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout);
// times out after x seconds
$result = $curl->exec();
// run the whole process
$curl->close();
return $result;
}
