This is a very quick CURL based function to GET a URL - specifically for the MYOB AccountRight Live API

getURL

/******************************************************************************
** GETURL
**	The purpose of this function is to call any url we give it
**	The function expects at least a URL
**  It also can take (optionally) the username and password for the company file
**
********************************************************************************/

function getURL($url, $companyFileUsername = null, $companyFilePassword = null) {

	// if we have a username we need to base64_encode it - so lets check if it's set
	if( isset( $companyFileUsername ) ) {
		$companyFileToken = base64_encode( $companyFileUsername.':'.$companyFilePassword );
	} else {
		$companyFileToken = '';
	}

	// we setup some headers to tell the API some information like the company file token and api version
	$headers = array(
		'x-myobapi-cftoken: '.$companyFileToken,
		'x-myobapi-version: v2',
	);

	// setup the CURL session & pass it the URL we will call
	$session = curl_init( $url );
	// curl options
	curl_setopt( $session, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers ); // set the headers
	curl_setopt( $session, CURLOPT_HEADER, false ); // tell curl NOT to return the headers (set to true to debug)
	curl_setopt( $session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );

	// lets fire this off & get the response
	$response = curl_exec( $session );
	curl_close( $session ); // close the curl session to free up memory

	// okay, lets pass the response back
	return( $response );
}