parl; $html=" "; echo $html; function getResults(){ //echo $temp->route_id."\r\n"; $return_value=new stdClass(); // fictional URL to an existing file with no data in it (ie. 0 byte file) $url = "https://ge14.s3.amazonaws.com/results.json"; $curl = curl_init(); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false); // execute and return string (this should be an empty string '') $str = curl_exec($curl); $result=json_decode($str); curl_close($curl); return $result; } ?>