check on faculty-ish status

fac-check.php

//write to user profile if user is faculty


function user_status ($user){
    //attempt to differentiate between new user ID and edit profile user object
    if (is_numeric($user)){
        $user_id = $user;
        $user_info = get_userdata($user_id);
        $email = $user_info->user_email;
    } else {
        $email = $user->user_email;
        $user_id = $user->ID;
    }
    $url_email = urlencode($email);
    $url = 'https://phonebook.vcu.edu/?Qname=' . $url_email . '&Qdepartment=*';

    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

    //return the transfer as a string
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

    // $output contains the output string
    $output = curl_exec($ch);
    $fail = preg_match('/No matches/', $output, $matches);
    $user = get_user_meta($user_id);
    $exists = get_user_meta($user_id, 'user_vcu_status');
    if ($fail == 0) {
        $status = 'faculty';
        if ($exists){
            update_user_meta( $user_id, 'user_vcu_status',  $status );
        } else {
            add_user_meta( $user_id, 'user_vcu_status',  $status, true );
        }
    } else {
        $status = 'student';
       if ($exists){
            update_user_meta( $user_id, 'user_vcu_status',  $status );
        } else {
            add_user_meta( $user_id, 'user_vcu_status',  $status, true );
        }
    }
    curl_close($ch);
}


add_action ('wpmu_new_user', 'user_status', 10, 1);

add_action( 'edit_user_profile', 'user_status', 10, 1 );