I am trying to display contents retrieved from an external URL using JSON (the cURL method). So i wrote the below function:

function file_get_contents_curl() {   //JSON URL which should be requested   $gry_str = "?timezone=" . urlencode(date_default_timezone_get())  . "&dateFrom=" . date('Y-m-d') . "&dateTill=" . date('Y-m-d');    $json_url = 'https://www.example.com/json/financial-calendar.json' . $gry_str;    // Initializing curl   $ch = curl_init();     //Configuring curl options    $options=array(CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,      CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array('Content-type: application/json'),     CURLOPT_URL => $json_url);    //Setting curl options   curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);    //Getting resutls   $results= curl_exec($ch); //Getting json result string } 

I want the contents retrieved to be displayed in an HTML table. So i am using this:

<script id="calendarContentTemplate" type="text/html"> <![CDATA[   <tr>     <td class="calendar-local-time"><%= time %></td>     <td class="region"><%= region %></td>     <td class="title"><%= title %></td>     <td><%= forecast %></td>     <td><%= previous %></td>   </tr> ]]> 

and my constructed table like this:

<table class="calendar-table">   <thead>     <tr>       <th class="time">Time</th>       <th class="region">Region</th>       <th class="title">Event</th>       <th class="forecast">Forecast</th>       <th class="previous">Previous</th>     </tr>   </thead>   <tbody>        <tr>           <td class="calendar-local-time"></td>           <td class="region"></td>           <td class="title"></td>             <td></td>         </tr>      </tbody> </table> 

Nothing is being displayed on the table. Am I doing something wrong? Or do I need a Drupal function to make it work? Forgot to mention that its for the front page.

I have read about the drupal_json_output() function. But I am not sure if I have to use it. When I tried using it my webpage appeared only HTML.

It is very weird, because when I open Firebug I can see in the Net section. I am receiving Status as 200 Ok for request, but the response is completely empty.

Any help is greatly appreciated.