--- a/include/common.inc.php
+++ b/include/common.inc.php
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@
 
 include_once ('couchdb.inc.php');
 include_once ('template.inc.php');
+require_once $basePath.'lib/Requests/library/Requests.php';
 
+Requests::register_autoloader();
 # Convert a stdClass to an Array. http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.object.php#102735
 
 function object_to_array(stdClass $Class) {
@@ -47,7 +49,10 @@
     return trim(str_replace("Department of", "", str_replace("Department of the", "Department of", $deptName)));
 } 
 function phrase_to_tag ($phrase) {
-    return str_replace(" ","_",str_replace(",","",strtolower($phrase)));
+    return str_replace(" ","_",str_replace("'","",str_replace(",","",strtolower($phrase))));
+}
+function local_url() {
+    return "http://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . rtrim(dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']), '/\\') . "/";
 }
 function GetDomain($url)
 {
@@ -62,7 +67,3 @@
      }
 }
 
-?>
-
-
-