$ch = curl_init();
	
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin");
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
	
	$data = array('accountType' => 'GOOGLE',
	'Email' => 'emailgoeshere@gmail.com',
	'Passwd' => 'passwordhere',
	'source'=>'nameyourapp',
	'service'=>'reader');
	
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
	
	$loginResult = curl_exec($ch);
	
	// this is the meat:  grabbing the "Auth" value from the token we get back
	$authRaw = strstr($loginResult, "Auth");
	$authToken = substr($authRaw, 5);
	
	// this builds the action we'd like the API to perform
	$ch = curl_init("http://www.google.com/reader/atom/user/-/state/com.google/reading-list");
	
	$header[] = 'Authorization: GoogleLogin auth='.$authToken;
	
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
	
	$xml = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);