Question

2 short questions. I would appreciate an answer or a pointer to an answered question on SO (I searched before asking :)).

1. I’d like to consume one of the TRYNT‘s web services that returns a JSON object (like this one for example). Am I right in deducing that if they don’t specify JSONP, there is no way I can consume those services from the client side, without a server-side proxy – due to cross-site scripting limitations?
2. Ok, so I tried implementing a PHP proxy to consume the service and return the JSON to HTML, but found out my (free) web hosting service blocks the CURL libarary. Being a newbie PHP developer (ASP.Net is my usual expertise, but I decided it’s time to branch out 🙂 ) – what other options do I have to get the JSON results from PHP?

Any assistance is appreciated.

Answer 1

Try this:

$url = 'http://www.trynt.com/symbol-lookup-api/v2/?s=IBM&fo=json&f=0';
$json = file_get_contents($url);
$data = json_decode($json);

Depends on your server configuration of course. Worth a shot!