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 javascript, But I need my php file to get this data, It needs to be server side, Thanks I'm new I have spent all day trying to figure this out. fopen and fread isn't working,

<?php $vorto = $_GET['vorto']; // Get the Word from Outer Space and Search for it!  if (isset($vorto))     {     echo $vorto;     } else {         $Help = "No Vorto -> add ?vorto=TheWordYouWant to the end of this website";         echo $Help;     } $url1 = "http://vortaro.us.to/ajax/epo/eng/";  $url2 = "/?callback=?"; $finalurl= $url1 . $vorto . $url2;  /* PLEASE HELP  $v1 = fopen($finalurl ,"r"); echo $v1;   $frv1 = fread($v1,filesize($v1)); echo $frv1 ;  */  ?> 

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.