Question

Hi i’m trying to get the content from a json file, but i can’t i have many troubles to do it, my code is:

<?PHP

$url = 'http://www.taringa.net/api/efc6d445985d5c38c5515dfba8b74e74/json/Users-GetUserData/apptastico';

$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 0; // set to zero for no timeout
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$file_contents = curl_exec($ch); // take out the spaces of curl statement!!
curl_close($ch);

var_dump($file_contents);  

?>

if i put the address in the browser i get the content without any issue, but if i try to get it on PHP or other code i have issues, what can i do? i try use file_get_contents(); too but i don’t get anything, only issues and issues

Answer 1

It appears that they are checking user agents and blocking PHP. Set this before using file_get_contents:

ini_set('user_agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1');

If they are checking user agents, they may be doing so to prevent people from doing this kind of thing.