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$username='###'; $password='###'; $url='###'; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30); //timeout after 30 seconds curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password"); $status_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE); //get status code $result=curl_exec ($ch); curl_close ($ch);

Great solutions Dave and Ray.
Dave, following on from your suggestion I have updated the code to this

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30); //timeout after 30 seconds
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE  );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
$status_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);   //get status code
$result=curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);

$obj = json_decode($result);
echo "<ul>";
foreach ($obj as $element)
{
    echo "<li><strong>".$element->Name."</strong>";
	 echo "<br>Location: ";
    echo $element->Location;
    echo "<br>and IS RATED ";
    echo $element->Stars;
    echo " STARS<br></li>";
	echo $element->Description;
}
echo "</ul>";

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This works fine. Was this what you had in mind?
Ray, your solution works perfectly and I see a lot of benefit from initially creating a file to receive the data and grabbing this as and where needed. The next phase of this particular project is to cache the resulting data so I can limit calls to the external source. I may be using your expertise again to help with this question.
Cheer and thanks to both of you.
Neil