function file_get_dreamcontents($url){
	$ch = curl_init();
	$timeout = 5; // set to zero for no timeout
	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
	$file_contents = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);
	return $file_contents;
}