Using CURL to use json's GET using PHP - php

Question

I am very new to PHP and have done some research on how to call the json's GET function using CURL but there is something I am not doing correctly. Maybe someone can point me in the right direction. I hope I can communicate it properly. Thanks.
In my browser, when I type:
https://myWebSite.com/api/v1/people/26.json?
my browser returns a person with the ID of 26 and all their fields associated with them.
I am now trying to do this call in a PHP file. This is what I have:
//jSON URL which should be requested
$json_url = 'https://myWebSite.com';
$username = 'myUsername'; // authentication
$password = 'myPassword'; // authentication
// jSON String for request
$json_string = '/api/v1/people/26.json';
// Initializing curl
$ch = curl_init( $json_url );
// Configuring curl options
$options = array(
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_USERPWD => $username . ":" . $password, // authentication
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array('Content-type: application/json') ,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $json_string
);
// Setting curl options
curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options );
// Getting results
$result = curl_exec($ch); // Getting jSON result string
print $result;
?>

Answer 1

Try adding this to your option list:
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST'
Edit: After re-reading the OP, it looks like there was a misunderstanding about what the request should be. If it is a GET request to a URL, it is more likely that it was supposed to go like this:
$json_string = '/api/v1/people/26.json';
$json_url = "https://myWebSite.com{$json_string}";
$username = 'myUsername'; // authentication
$password = 'myPassword'; // authentication
// Initializing curl
$ch = curl_init( $json_url );
// Configuring curl options
$options = array(
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_USERPWD => $username . ":" . $password, // authentication
);