cUrl script to get discogs api data

discogs.php

<?php

$url = "http://api.discogs.com/"; // add the resource info to the url. Ex. releases/1

//initialize the session
$ch = curl_init();

//Set the User-Agent Identifier
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'YOUR_APP_NAME_HERE/0.1 +http://your-site-here.com');

//Set the URL of the page or file to download.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

//Ask cURL to return the contents in a variable instead of simply echoing them
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

//Execute the curl session
$output = curl_exec($ch);

//close the session
curl_close ($ch);

echo $output

?>