CurlBlogger.php

<?php
  $url="http://thehilolowdown.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?max-results=1";
   $_c = curl_init();
   curl_setopt($_c, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
   curl_setopt($_c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
   curl_setopt($_c, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 3);
   //curl_setopt($_c, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$_user:$_pass");
   //curl_setopt($_c, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
   $_data = curl_exec($_c);
   $response= curl_getinfo($_c);
   curl_close($_c);
    # check curl response
	if ($_data) {
		if ($response['http_code'] == 200) {
	        $r='OK';
             echo trim($_data);
            exit();
	    } else { $r = 'OIEERR'; }
    } else { $r = 'SYSERR';	}

    if($r=="OK"){
    $_blog= simplexml_load_string($_string);
    $_blogposts=array();
    foreach ($_blog->entry as $entry) {
      array_push($_blogposts,array(
            "title"=>$entry->title, 
            "content"=>$entry->content,
            "summary"=>$entry->summary,
            "link"=>$entry->link[2]["href"]
          ));
    }
    }