character ID function

function getCharacterIdFromName($name){
    //curl -X POST "https://esi.evetech.net/latest/universe/ids/" -H "accept: application/json" -H "Accept-Language: en-us" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "[ \"Jehle\"]"

    //The url you wish to send the POST request to
    $url = "https://esi.evetech.net/latest/universe/ids/";

    //The data you want to send via POST
    $fields = array("names" => "Jehle") ;

    print_r($fields);

    //url-ify the data for the POST
    $fields_string = http_build_query($fields);

    //open connection
    $ch = curl_init();

    //set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
        'Accept-Language: en-us'
    ));

    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields_string);


    // Receive server response ...
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

    $server_output = curl_exec($ch);
    $server_output = json_decode($server_output, true);

    print_r($server_output);

    curl_close ($ch);

}