Json save data to JSON file from API using PHP (curl) - php

Question

I have written this code to get data from API URL.
All data is written to my file, but I can't find solution to make it look like Json format in file, what I am missing? Everything I tried in file showing like text (Added example below) and what I want. Maybe someone will help me with this :). Thanks!
Source code using php curl to get and save data
<?php
$token = "eyJ";
$ch = curl_init("https://api.xxx.com/api/Catelo/Prod?cat=MPHEFGZ");
$fp = fopen("prod.json", "w");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Content-Type: application/json',
'Authorization: Bearer ' . $token
));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
?>
I want it to save to file like this:
What I expect (saved format):
"FIFA_Last_World_Cup_final":
{
"Year": "2018",
"data":
{
"Winner": "France",
"Score": "4-2",
"Runner-up": "Croatia"
}
}
What I get now when data is saved to file:
[{"id":1,"Code":1,"name":"TV","manu":"32","v":"P","v":"P","c":"T","q":"0","p":1.0,"d":1.0,"imagePath":"e0bc7.Jpeg","thumbnailImagePath":"0bc7.Jpeg","fullDsc":"32\"","cury":"E","httpD":"548","packy":1,"ty":"24","eae":"","obligaKit":0,"reerty":0,"proate":0,"pront":70,"quane2":"0","pri":0.0,"lotN":"","p":0.0,"i":70}

Answer 1

As you are not processing the response from the API, what you see is just how the response is sent. To format it, you can capture the output (using CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER) and then decode the response - re-encoding it with JSON_PRETTY_PRINT.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Content-Type: application/json',
'Authorization: Bearer ' . $token
));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// Store the JSON from the API
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
// Decode it, re-encode with formatting
echo json_encode(json_decode($response), JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);