$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/rj/topalbums.xml');
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$url = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement("$url")