functions

curlInit_once.php

<?php

/**
 * Curl init function
 * @param (string)$url
 * @param (array)$params
 * @return $response
 */
function curlInit($url = '', $params = array())
{
    $c = curl_init($url);//.json
    curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    //curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POST, true); 
    curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
    // curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($params)); 
    curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, FALSE); 
    curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE); 
    //$response = json_decode($response, true);//if response json
    $response = curl_exec($c);
    // $response['errors'][] = curl_error($c); 
    return $response;
}

dump.php

<?php

/**
 * Pretty dump any data
 *
 * @param $variable
 * @param $string
 *
 * @return $string
 */
function dump($variable, $string = 'DEBUG::')
{
    echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s") . ' : <br/>';
    echo $string . ' : <br/><pre>';
    var_dump($variable);
    echo '</pre>';
    exit();
}

pdo_connection.php

<?php

/**
 * PDO Mysql conn
 *
 * @param $close
 *
 * @return (object)$connection
 */
function db($close = false)
{
    $host = "localhost";
    $db_name = " ";
    $login = " ";
    $password = " ";
    $connection = new PDO('mysql:host=' . $host . ';dbname=' . $db_name, $login, $password, array(
        // PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT => true
        PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => "SET NAMES utf8"
    ));
    if ($close) {
        $connection = null;
    }
    return $connection;
}