Business logic to determine if constituent rep had cosponsored a bill

legislatorLookupProcessing.php

<?php 

// RESULTS
if(in_array($legislator_id, $cosponsor_ids)) {

  // echo "Your representative, $legislator_first $legislator_last, is a cosponsor of the legislation.";

	/*  $ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://endgenocide.org/actions/protect-the-rohingya/");
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	$legislator = curl_exec($ch));
	curl_close($ch); */

} if($legislator_id==$sponsor_id) {

	// echo "Your representative, $legislator_first $legislator_last, authored this legislation.";

	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://endgenocide.org/actions/protect-the-rohingya");
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	$petition = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);

	print_r($petition);

} else {

	// echo "Your representative, $legislator_first $legislator_last, is not a cosponsor of this legislation.";

	$non_sponsor_handle = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($non_sponsor_handle, CURLOPT_URL, "http://endgenocide.org/actions/protect-the-rohingya/");
	curl_setopt($non_sponsor_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	$petition = curl_exec($non_sponsor_handle);

	$html = str_get_html($petition);
	$elem = $html->find('div[id=petition-body]', 0);

	echo $elem;

}

?>