$save = true; 
    $file = 'http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/version.json'; 
    if (ini_get('allow_url_fopen')) { 
        $response = file_get_contents($file); 
    } else if (function_exists('curl_init')) { 
        $curl_handle = curl_init($file); 
        curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
        $response = curl_exec($curl_handle); 
    }