Get the data from json url using php? - php

Question

This is a json api : https://jobs.github.com/positions.json?description=java&page=1
I want get the data from this url.
<?php
$url = file_get_contents('https://jobs.github.com/positions.json?description=java&page=1');
var_dump(json_decode($url,true)); ?>
this code return null
I also check the url in json validator: http://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/ the json is valid but i con't able get the data from this url please help me...

Answer 1

Try this script to determine what the problem is. If there is no JSON module installed (see #julian comment), you can try to use PHP implementations of JSON like this: http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=198
if (! extension_loaded('json')) {
echo 'Module JSON not available!';
exit();
}
$url = file_get_contents('https://jobs.github.com/positions.json?description=java&page=1');
$data = json_decode($url,true);
switch (json_last_error()) {
case JSON_ERROR_NONE:
echo ' - No errors';
break;
case JSON_ERROR_DEPTH:
echo ' - Maximum stack depth exceeded';
break;
case JSON_ERROR_STATE_MISMATCH:
echo ' - Underflow or the modes mismatch';
break;
case JSON_ERROR_CTRL_CHAR:
echo ' - Unexpected control character found';
break;
case JSON_ERROR_SYNTAX:
echo ' - Syntax error, malformed JSON';
break;
case JSON_ERROR_UTF8:
echo ' - Malformed UTF-8 characters, possibly incorrectly encoded';
break;
default:
echo ' - Unknown error';
break;
}