PHP Now Playing V0.01

<?php
/*
*    +--------------------------------------------------------------+
*    | Volkova Now Playing                                          |
*    +--------------------------------------------------------------+
*    |                                                              |
*    | Author: Ryan                                                 |
*    | Version: 0.01                                                |
*    |                                                              |
*    | This version also needs a base image, in this example it is  |
*    | "Big-Image.png" that is being used                               |
*    +--------------------------------------------------------------+
*/
error_reporting(0); //If you can not connect to the url you get an error, so by turning error reporting off, you avoid this.

$name = "Ryan";
$url = "http://2.126.10.113/now_playing.txt"; //The file that now_playing.py saves the current song to.s

function get_url_contents($url){
    $crl = curl_init();
    $timeout = 3;
    curl_setopt ($crl, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
    curl_setopt ($crl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt ($crl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
    $ret = curl_exec($crl);
    curl_close($crl);
    return $ret;
}

$str = get_url_contents($url);

$im = imagecreatefrompng("big-image.png");
if(!$im) { die("Image Niggered up");}

$black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
$green = imagecolorallocate($im, 121, 212, 121);
$red = imagecolorallocate($im, 209, 62, 62);

$font = 1;

$length = strlen($name) + 5; // The "+ 5" is the " is: "

$length = $length * 18;

imagestring($im,$font,5, 5,"$name is currently listening to: ",$black);

if ( $str ) {
    imagestring($im, $font, $length, 5,  "$str", $green);
} else {
    imagestring($im, $font, $length, 5,  "Nothing, because he's offline", $red);
}

Header('Content-type: image/png');

imagepng($im);

imagedestroy($im);

?>