Parse curl response from github api - php

Question

I'm a newbie in php but I'm trying to learn right now. What i want to make :
Send a curl request to github api like this :
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://api.github.com/legacy/repos/search/language:' . $lang);
And when i receive the result to display like a nice html page. The response that I'm receiving right now is displayed like the one written in github api documentation http://developer.github.com/v3/search/.
This is the first time I'm trying to learn PHP, but not the first time I've been web developing ( I've been contributing to a Hakyll based blog these weeks ).
My question is : How could i parse the results to format them nicely in a html page ?

Answer 1

The results are returned via JSON. You can make use of json_decode() for that.
Pass your cURL $response to this function. Such that print_r(json_decode($response,1));
Example of how to do it
<?php
$json='{
"text_matches": [
{
"object_url": "https://api.github.com/repositories/3081286",
"object_type": "Repository",
"property": "name",
"fragment": "Tetris",
"matches": [
{
"text": "Tetris",
"indices": [
0,
6
]
}
]
},
{
"object_url": "https://api.github.com/repositories/3081286",
"object_type": "Repository",
"property": "description",
"fragment": "A C implementation of Tetris using Pennsim through LC4",
"matches": [
{
"text": "Tetris",
"indices": [
22,
28
]
}
]
}
]
}';
$jarr=json_decode($json,1);
echo $jarr['text_matches'][0]['object_url']; //"prints" https://api.github.com/repositories/3081286