config.php

<?php
/* Database credentials. Assuming you are running MySQL server with default setting (user 'root' with no password) */

define('DB_SERVER', 'localhost');
define('DB_USERNAME', 'root');
define('DB_PASSWORD', '');
define('DB_NAME', 'db_nearby_places');

/* Attempt to connect to MySQL database */
$db = mysqli_connect(DB_SERVER, DB_USERNAME, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME);

// Check connection
if($db === false){
    die("ERROR: Could not connect. " . mysqli_connect_error());
}

//function curl method get
function curlApi($url){
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
    $output = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $output;
}
?>