public cranklin / Jarvis

<?php
$url = "http://api.wolframalpha.com/v2/query?input=what+day+is+it+today&appid=YOUR_APP_ID_HERE&format=plaintext&podtitle=Result";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
ob_start();
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$contents = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
echo $contents;


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country | United States
political affiliation | Democrat
start date | January 20, 2009 (2 years 11 months 23 days ago)</plaintext>
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January 2001  to  January 2009  (8 years) | George W. Bush (Republican)
January 1993  to  January 2001  (8 years) | Bill Clinton (Democrat)
January 1989  to  January 1993  (4 years) | George H.W. Bush (Republican)
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   <plaintext>full name | Barack Hussein Obama II
date of birth | August 4, 1961 (age: 50 years)
place of birth | Honolulu, Hawaii, United States</plaintext>
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   <plaintext>Thursday, January 12, 2012</plaintext>
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?>