Need some help in parsing (formatting) json in PHP

SpeedBus

Hey Guys,
Needed some help in parsing (formatting) json outputted data into PHP,

The json data needs to be fetched from a URL and needs to be formatted in PHP

any ideas on how to code this ?

adyg

Something like:

$url = 'www.something.com';
$data = file_get_contents($url);
$decodedJson = json_decode($data, true); 

sleddog

Have you looked at the PHP JSON functions?

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.json.php

Francisco

json_decode is what you'll want to use.

When you do the decode, it turns it into a PHP array that you can easily work with

Francisco

SpeedBus

Hmm..
I have got the data cURL'd on my page, now how do i format / parse it :P

http://93.104.215.18/friends/ is the data :P

Francisco

you can just like:

$crank = json_decode(trim(file_get_contents("some_url")), true);

print_r($crank);

Francisco

SpeedBus

@Francisco : Still looks kinda messy
http://93.104.215.18/friends/

Francisco

The print_r is just to show you how it parsed it.

You need to now echo/format the data in the array :P

Francisco

SpeedBus

@Francisco : You rock bro !! I got it to work atlast made a array and it worked !!