public static function curlGet($url)
    {   
        $defaults = array(
            CURLOPT_URL => $url,
            //CURLOPT_HEADER => 0,
            CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE,
            //CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 4
        );
       
        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt_array($ch, $defaults);
        if( ! $result = curl_exec($ch))
        {
            trigger_error(curl_error($ch));
        }
        curl_close($ch);
        return $result;
    }