Retrieve Json Data Using CURL PHP - php

Question

Using CURL here we retrieve data and print then save to file after that insert it into database.
$curl = curl_init();
$options=array(
CURLOPT_URL=>"http://api.abc.com/v1/products/search.json?q=ball",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER =>true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING =>"",
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION =>true,
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT=>30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION=>CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_0,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS=>"",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER=> array(
"authorization: AsiMemberAuth client_id=50041351&client_secret=55700485cc39f1",
"cache-control: no-cache"
),
CURLOPT_HEADER=> true
);
curl_setopt_array($curl, $options);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err){
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}
The Result json is fine. now i want to save it in json file?

Answer 1

to save a string to a file in php, you can use file_put_contents()
file_put_contents doc
file_put_contents ( string $filename , mixed $data [, int $flags = 0 [, resource $context ]] ) : int
You can update your code as follows:
if ($err){
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
//Write response to file
file_put_contents("my_file.json", $response)
}