Get JSON object from URL

I have a URL that returns a JSON object like this:

{
    "expires_in":5180976,
    "access_token":"AQXzQgKTpTSjs-qiBh30aMgm3_Kb53oIf-VA733BpAogVE5jpz3jujU65WJ1XXSvVm1xr2LslGLLCWTNV5Kd_8J1YUx26axkt1E-vsOdvUAgMFH1VJwtclAXdaxRxk5UtmCWeISB6rx6NtvDt7yohnaarpBJjHWMsWYtpNn6nD87n0syud0"
} 

I want to get JSON object from the URL and then the access_token value.

So how can I retrieve it through PHP?

Solution 1:

$json = file_get_contents('url_here');
$obj = json_decode($json);
echo $obj->access_token;

For this to work, file_get_contents requires that allow_url_fopen is enabled. This can be done at runtime by including:

ini_set("allow_url_fopen", 1);

You can also use curl to get the url. To use curl, you can use the example found here:

$ch = curl_init();
// IMPORTANT: the below line is a security risk, read https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/10/certainty-automated-cacert-pem-management-for-php-software
// in most cases, you should set it to true
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'url_here');
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$obj = json_decode($result);
echo $obj->access_token;

Solution 2:

$url = 'http://.../.../yoururl/...';
$obj = json_decode(file_get_contents($url), true);
echo $obj['access_token'];

Php also can use properties with dashes:

garex@ustimenko ~/src/ekapusta/deploy $ psysh
Psy Shell v0.4.4 (PHP 5.5.3-1ubuntu2.6 — cli) by Justin Hileman
>>> $q = new stdClass;
=> <stdClass #000000005f2b81c80000000076756fef> {}
>>> $q->{'qwert-y'} = 123
=> 123
>>> var_dump($q);
class stdClass#174 (1) {
  public $qwert-y =>
  int(123)
}
=> null

Solution 3:

You could use PHP's json_decode function:

$url = "http://urlToYourJsonFile.com";
$json = file_get_contents($url);
$json_data = json_decode($json, true);
echo "My token: ". $json_data["access_token"];

Solution 4:

You need to read about json_decode function http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php

Here you go

$json = '{"expires_in":5180976,"access_token":"AQXzQgKTpTSjs-qiBh30aMgm3_Kb53oIf-VA733BpAogVE5jpz3jujU65WJ1XXSvVm1xr2LslGLLCWTNV5Kd_8J1YUx26axkt1E-vsOdvUAgMFH1VJwtclAXdaxRxk5UtmCWeISB6rx6NtvDt7yohnaarpBJjHWMsWYtpNn6nD87n0syud0"}';
//OR $json = file_get_contents('http://someurl.dev/...');

$obj = json_decode($json);
var_dump($obj-> access_token);

//OR 

$arr = json_decode($json, true);
var_dump($arr['access_token']);