Can't get url using JSON script parsed with file_get_contents - php

Question

I have this link I want to parse some information in it or just save it in a file...
can't do it without this simple code:
Example:
<?php
$myFile = 'test.txt';
$get= file_get_contents("http://www.ticketmaster.com/json/resale?command=get_resale_listings&event_id=0C004B290BF2D95F");
file_put_contents($myFile, $get); ?>
The output is:
{"version":1.1,"error":{"invalid":{"cookies":true}},"command":"get_resale_listings"}
I tried many other things like fopen or include did not work either. I don't understand because when I put the url in the browser it shows exactly ALL the code (google chrome) OR even better ask me to save it as a file (explorer). Looks like a browser cookies or something that doesn't load on my localhost ??
thanks for your tips.

Answer 1

You need to access that url with CURL.
The server checks if the client has cookies enabled. Using file_get_content() You do not send any information about client (browser).
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.ticketmaster.com/json/resale?command=get_resale_listings&event_id=0C004B290BF2D95F');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "my_cookies.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "my_cookies.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3");
curl_exec($ch);