How to use cURL within the orders plugin

Hello,

Here is the cURL function I am trying to ruin in the wordpress options page for the plugin. It works on the server but not inside of the options page. I have read I need to to 2 cURL functions. One to get admin for wordpress and the other to run the cURL function.

Please instruct me how to do this…

function get_data($url) {
  $ch = curl_init();
  $timeout = 5;
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
  global $data;
  $data = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
  $info = json_decode($data,true); //decoding the json data
  global $report;
  $report = $info;

}

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