--- 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 $Class) {
@@ -49,6 +51,9 @@
 function phrase_to_tag ($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)
 {
 $nowww = ereg_replace('www\.','',$url);