using php to get a json feed - php

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I'm trying to use php to get an external json feed to use within my site, I've tried using get_file_contents and also CURL. But both are returning the same thing.
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If I add json_decode, it echoes out nothing at all.
Here's the code I'm using:
$apistr = 'https://remitradar.com/JsonRequests.aspx?action=getOnlineQuotes&companyKey=23e9b66aspp6z&countryFrom=AU&countryTo=FJ&currencyFrom=AUD&currencyTo=FJD&amount=200';
#get file contents
$json = file_get_contents($apistr);
echo '<pre>';print_r($json);echo '</pre>';
#curl 1
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$apistr);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,true);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
$jsonData = json_decode(curl_exec($ch));
curl_close($ch);
echo '<pre>CURL 1';print_r($jsonData);echo '</pre>';
#curl 2
$ch = curl_init($apistr);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_MUTE,1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST,0);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,0);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array('Content-Type:text/xml'));
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
$output = json_decode(curl_exec($ch));
curl_close($ch);
echo '<pre>CURL 2';print_r($output);echo '</pre>';
I'm not sure if the problem is on my end, or their end. But going to the URL directly works fine.

Answer 1

Their server uses gzip compression
You must handle this
#curl 1
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$apistr);
//curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,true);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_ENCODING , "gzip"); // handle gzip
$data = curl_exec($ch);
$data = json_decode($data);
curl_close($ch);
echo '<pre>CURL 1';print_r($data);echo '</pre>';