I parse a parameter to a php file and try to get json with file_get_contents(). This is my Code:
< ?php
$url = $_GET['url'];
$url = urldecode($url);
$json = file_get_contents($url, true);
echo($json);
? >
This is the called URL: http://vimeo.com/api/v2/channel/photographyschool/videos.json
This is a part of my result:
[{"id":40573637,"title":"All For Nothing - \"Dead To Me\" & \"Twisted Tongues\""}]
And so on... So everything is escaped. There are even in the result.
Since I neet to work afterwards with the json (in js), I need a non escaped version!
Interesting thing is, that my code works for example with this json: http://xkcd.com/847/info.0.json
What is my problem?
If you just want to proxy/forward the response then just echo it as it is with the correct Content-Type header:
<?php
header('Content-Type: application/json');
$json = file_get_contents('http://vimeo.com/api/v2/channel/photographyschool/videos.json');
echo $json;
?>
Tho you have to be very wary of the url passed as it could cause XSS!
And as the API is slow/resource hungry you should cache the result or at least save it in a session so its not repeated on each page load.
<?php
$cache = './vimeoCache.json';
$url = 'http://vimeo.com/api/v2/channel/photographyschool/videos.json';
//Set the correct header
header('Content-Type: application/json');
// If a cache file exists, and it is newer than 1 hour, use it
if(file_exists($cache) && filemtime($cache) > time() - 60*60){
echo file_get_contents($cache);
}else{
//Grab content and overwrite cache file
$jsonData = file_get_contents($url);
file_put_contents($cache,$jsonData);
echo $jsonData;
}
?>
Use this:
echo json_decode($json);
EDIT: FORGET the above. Try adding:
header('Content-Type: text/plain');
above
$url = $_GET['url'];
and see if that helps.
You should use json_decode : http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php
better yet, where you deliver your json use:
json_encode(array(
"id" => 40573637,
"title" => 'All For Nothing - "Dead To Me" & "Twisted Tongues"'
));