[php] Get JSON object from URL

I have a URL that returns a JSON object like this:

{
    "expires_in":5180976,
    "access_token":"AQXzQgKTpTSjs-qiBh30aMgm3_Kb53oIf-VA733BpAogVE5jpz3jujU65WJ1XXSvVm1xr2LslGLLCWTNV5Kd_8J1YUx26axkt1E-vsOdvUAgMFH1VJwtclAXdaxRxk5UtmCWeISB6rx6NtvDt7yohnaarpBJjHWMsWYtpNn6nD87n0syud0"
} 

I want to get JSON object from the URL and then the access_token value.

So how can I retrieve it through PHP?

When you are using curl sometimes give you 403 (access forbidden) Solved by adding this line to emulate browser.

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)');

Hope this help someone.

$curl_handle=curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL,'https://www.xxxSite/get_quote/ajaxGetQuoteJSON.jsp?symbol=IRCTC&series=EQ');
//Set the GET method by giving 0 value and for POST set as 1
//curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 0);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$query = curl_exec($curl_handle);
$data = json_decode($query, true);
curl_close($curl_handle);

//print complete object, just echo the variable not work so you need to use print_r to show the result
echo print_r( $data);
//at first layer
echo $data["tradedDate"];
//Inside the second layer
echo $data["data"][0]["companyName"];

Some time you might get 405, set the method type correctly.

file_get_contents() is not fetching the data from url,then i tried curl and it's working fine.

You could use PHP's json_decode function:

$url = "http://urlToYourJsonFile.com";
$json = file_get_contents($url);
$json_data = json_decode($json, true);
echo "My token: ". $json_data["access_token"];

$url = 'http://.../.../yoururl/...';
$obj = json_decode(file_get_contents($url), true);
echo $obj['access_token'];

Php also can use properties with dashes:

garex@ustimenko ~/src/ekapusta/deploy $ psysh
Psy Shell v0.4.4 (PHP 5.5.3-1ubuntu2.6 — cli) by Justin Hileman
>>> $q = new stdClass;
=> <stdClass #000000005f2b81c80000000076756fef> {}
>>> $q->{'qwert-y'} = 123
=> 123
>>> var_dump($q);
class stdClass#174 (1) {
  public $qwert-y =>
  int(123)
}
=> null

// Get the string from the URL
$json = file_get_contents('https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=40.714224,-73.961452');

// Decode the JSON string into an object
$obj = json_decode($json);

// In the case of this input, do key and array lookups to get the values
var_dump($obj->results[0]->formatted_address);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'url_here');
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$obj = json_decode($result);
echo $obj->access_token;

You need to read about json_decode function http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php

Here you go

$json = '{"expires_in":5180976,"access_token":"AQXzQgKTpTSjs-qiBh30aMgm3_Kb53oIf-VA733BpAogVE5jpz3jujU65WJ1XXSvVm1xr2LslGLLCWTNV5Kd_8J1YUx26axkt1E-vsOdvUAgMFH1VJwtclAXdaxRxk5UtmCWeISB6rx6NtvDt7yohnaarpBJjHWMsWYtpNn6nD87n0syud0"}';
//OR $json = file_get_contents('http://someurl.dev/...');

$obj = json_decode($json);
var_dump($obj-> access_token);

//OR 

$arr = json_decode($json, true);
var_dump($arr['access_token']);

my solution only works for the next cases: if you are mistaking a multidimensaional array into a single one

$json = file_get_contents('url_json'); //get the json
$objhigher=json_decode($json); //converts to an object
$objlower = $objhigher[0]; // if the json response its multidimensional this lowers it
echo "<pre>"; //box for code
print_r($objlower); //prints the object with all key and values
echo $objlower->access_token; //prints the variable

i know that the answer was has already been answered but for those who came here looking for something i hope this can help you

Our solution, adding some validations to response so we are sure we have a well formed json object in $json variable

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
if (! $result) {
    return false;
}

$json = json_decode(utf8_encode($result));
if (empty($json) || json_last_error() !== JSON_ERROR_NONE) {
    return false;
}