Quick PHP Functions to call Brown Paper Tickets API to get event and dates

bpt.php

function bpt_handler($atts)
	{
		extract(shortcode_atts(array(
				"event_id" => ''
			), $atts));
			
		$event_data = $this->getBptEvent($event_id);
		
		return '<pre>'.$event_data.'</pre>';
	
	}
	
	add_shortcode('bpt', 'bpt_handler');

function getBptEvent($event_id='184397')
	{
		$endpoint = "https://www.brownpapertickets.com/api2/eventlist";
		
		if(empty($event_id) OR $event_id == null OR $event_id == '')
		{
			$params = array(
				'id' => 'Fjk4VxX2pn',
				'client' => 'donations@thetorchtheatre.com'
			);
		}
		else
		{
			$params = array(
				'id' => 'Fjk4VxX2pn',
				'client' => 'donations@thetorchtheatre.com',
				'event_id' => $event_id			
			);
		}
		
		$callback_data = $params;
		
		$encoded = "";
		foreach($callback_data AS $key=>$value)
		    $encoded .= "$key=".urlencode($value)."&";
		$encoded = substr($encoded, 0, -1);
		
				
		//echo "starting";
		//open connection
		$ch = curl_init();
		
		//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
		curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$endpoint);
		curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,true);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, TWILIO_TOKEN.":X");
		curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$encoded);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 50);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, TRUE);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER  ,1);
		//execute post
		if(FALSE === ($result = curl_exec($ch)))
		{
			echo "Curl failed with error " . curl_error($ch);
			return;
		}
		// get result code
		$responseCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
		if (intval($responseCode / 100) != 2) 
		{
			echo 'Error while requesting. Service returned HTTP code '.$responseCode.' and curl error '.curl_error($ch);
			return;
		}
		
		//close connection
		curl_close($ch);
		
		//dumpVars($result);
		
		$event = new SimpleXMLElement($result, LIBXML_NOWARNING);
				
		foreach($event->event as $e)
		{
			$event_individual = get_object_vars($e);
			
			//$e->dates = $this->getBptEventDates($e->event_id);
			$event_individual['dates'] = $this->getBptEventDates($e->event_id);
			
			$output[] = $event_individual;
		}
		
		
		dumpVars($output);
	}
	
	
	function getBptEventDates($event_id)
	{
		$endpoint = "https://www.brownpapertickets.com/api2/datelist";
		
		
			$params = array(
				'id' => 'Fjk4VxX2pn',
				'event_id' => $event_id			
			);
		
		
		$callback_data = $params;
		
		$encoded = "";
		foreach($callback_data AS $key=>$value)
		    $encoded .= "$key=".urlencode($value)."&";
		$encoded = substr($encoded, 0, -1);
		
				
		//echo "starting";
		//open connection
		$ch = curl_init();
		
		//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
		curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$endpoint);
		curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,true);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, TWILIO_TOKEN.":X");
		curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$encoded);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 50);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, TRUE);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER  ,1);
		//execute post
		if(FALSE === ($result = curl_exec($ch)))
		{
			echo "Curl failed with error " . curl_error($ch);
			return;
		}
		// get result code
		$responseCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
		if (intval($responseCode / 100) != 2) 
		{
			echo 'Error while requesting. Service returned HTTP code '.$responseCode.' and curl error '.curl_error($ch);
			return;
		}
		
		//close connection
		curl_close($ch);
		
		//dumpVars($result);
		
		$date = new SimpleXMLElement($result, LIBXML_NOWARNING);
		
		foreach($date->date as $d)
		{
		
			$dates[] = get_object_vars($d);
		
		}
		
		return $dates;
		
	}