get json using php

Question

I need to get the json data from, http://vortaro.us.to/ajax/epo/eng/ + \'word\'+ \"/?callback=?\" working example (not enough reputation)

I know how to do it in jav

Answer 1

Take a look at PHP Curl.

With this example you are able to the all the informations.

<?php
// create a new cURL resource
$ch = curl_init();

// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.example.com/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

// grab URL and pass it to the browser
curl_exec($ch);

// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);
?>

Make sure that PHP Curl is enables in your php.ini. If you want to use fopen the setting allow_url_fopen must be 'ON' in your php.ini. Checkout phpinfo() for all the settings.

Since PHP 5.2.0 the function json_decode is part of the core.

Answer 2

Old question, but still one of the top hits in Google, so here is my contribution on top of @DrDol's answer.

<?
    $url = "http://www.example.com/api/v1/endpoint";
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); 

    $data = json_decode(curl_exec($ch));                

    curl_close($ch);
?>

Note the user of the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER which sends the response into the return value (and returns false on fail).

Answer 3

file_get_contents() can be used on a URL. A simple and convenient way to handle http page download.

That done, you can use json_decode() to parse the data into something useful.