Get a JSON from url with PHP - php

Question

Im new to php and tried to get a json object from the twitch API to retrieve one of its values and output it. i.e
i need to get the information from this link: https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/users/USERNAME/follows/channels/CHANNELSNAME
plus i need to to something so i can modify the urls USERNAME and CHANNELSUSERNAME. I want it to be a api to call for howlong user XY is following channelXY and this will be called using nightbots $customapi function.
the date i need from the json is "created_at"
Since we were able to clear out the errorsheres the final PHP file that works if anyone encounters similiar errors:
<?php
$url = "https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/users/" . $_GET['username'] . "/follows/channels/" . $_GET['channel'];
$result = file_get_contents($url);
$result = json_decode($result, true);
echo $result["created_at"];
?>

Answer 1

You have a typo in your code on the first line and you're not storing the result of your json_decode anywhere.
<?php
$url = "https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/users/" . $_GET['username'] . "/follows/channels/" . $_GET['channel'];
$result = file_get_contents($url);
$result = json_decode($result, true);
echo $result["created_at"];
You have to call the page this way page.php?username=yeroise&channel=ceratia in order to output the created_at value for this user and this channel.
In your code you're using 2 different ways to get the content of the page and you only need one (either file_get_contents or using CURL), I chose file_get_contents here as the other method adds complexity for no reason in this case.