run api

    function _runApi($url, $parameter = array(), $debug = FALSE) {
        global $maxTime;
        if ($maxTime == null){
            $maxTime = 10;
        }
        if (isset($parameter['maxTime'])){
            $maxTime = $parameter['maxTime'];
        }
        //log_info_table('run_api',array('old',$url,count($parameter) ));

        $CI = & get_instance();
        $dtAPI = array('url' => $url);
        if (count($parameter)) {
            $logTxt = "func:_runApi| url:{$url}| param:" . http_build_query($parameter, '', '&');
        } else {
            $logTxt = "func:_runApi| url:{$url}";
            $parameter['info'] = 'no post';
        }
        //$parameter[]=array('server'=>$_SERVER);
        $dtAPI['parameter'] = json_encode($parameter);
        logCreate('API: ' . $logTxt);

        if (count($parameter)) {
            logCreate('API: ' . "url:{$url}| param:\n" . print_r($parameter, 1), 'debug');
        } else {
            logCreate('API: param:' . print_r(parse_url($url), 1), 'debug');
        }
        $curl = curl_init();

        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        if ($parameter != '' && count($parameter) != 0) {
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $maxTime);
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($parameter, '', '&'));
            //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array('file' => '@/path/to/file.ext');
            //if( isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) )
            //  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);

            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, false);
            logCreate('API:POST', 'info');
        } else {
            logCreate('API:GET', 'info');
        }

        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13');
        $response = curl_exec($curl);

        if (0 != curl_errno($curl)) {
            $response = new stdclass();
            $response->code = '500';
            $response->message = curl_error($curl);
            $response->maxTime = $maxTime;
            $dtAPI['response'] = json_encode($response);
            $dtAPI['error'] = 1;
        } else {
            $response0 = $response;
            $dtAPI['response'] = $response;
            $dtAPI['error'] = 0;
            $response = json_decode($response, 1);
            if (!is_array($response)) {
                $response = $response0;
                $dtAPI['error'] = 1;
            } else {
                $dtAPI['error'] = 0;
            }
        }

        curl_close($curl);
        if (!isset($response0)){
            $response0 = '?';
        }

        logCreate('helper| API| url:' . $url . "|raw:" . (is_array($response) ? 'total array/obj=' . count($response) : $response0 ));

        return $debug ? array($url, $parameter, 'response' => $response,'raw'=>$response0) : $response;
    }