<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://content-available-to-author-only.com");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);                    
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, TRUE);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$xml_count = curl_exec($curl);
 
echo $xml_count
?>