public function url_get_contents($url) {

        $content = '';

		if (\function_exists('curl_exec')){
            $conn = \curl_init($url);
            \curl_setopt($conn, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, true);
            \curl_setopt($conn, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT,  true);
            \curl_setopt($conn, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
            \curl_setopt($conn,CURLOPT_USERAGENT,'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.52 Safari/537.17');
            \curl_setopt($conn, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
            \curl_setopt($conn, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
            \curl_setopt($conn, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 0);
            $content = (\curl_exec($conn));
            \curl_close($conn);
        }
        if (!$content && \function_exists('file_get_contents')){
            $content = @\file_get_contents($url);
        }
        if (!$content && \function_exists('fopen') && function_exists('stream_get_contents')){
            $handle  = @\fopen ($url, "r");
            $content = @\stream_get_contents($handle);
        }
        return $content;
	}