private static function cecf_call_data_url($data_url)
{
$user_key = base64_encode(CE_Plugin_Settings::get_user_key());
//encode user key
$output = null;
try {
//use cURL to contact server and get response with data
$ch = curl_init($data_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('UserKey:' . $user_key));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
$output1 = curl_close($ch);
$output = simplexml_load_string($output);
} catch (Exception $e) {
trigger_error("Unable to retrieve information from data source.");
}
return $output;
}
