Question

I am extremely new to json and have been working on this issue for about a week.

I used php to retrieve tweets from a list of accounts and stored them into a .txt file

$cache = dirname(__FILE__) . '/../cache/twitter-json.txt';

$data = file_get_contents('http://api.twitter.com/1/lists/statuses.json?    slug=widget&owner_screen_name=webcodepro&count=1&page=1&per_page=8&include_rts=true&include_entities=true');    

    $cachefile = fopen($cache, 'wb');
    fwrite($cachefile,utf8_encode($data));
    fclose($cachefile);

?>

The way the architect has the front-end page structured is that I need to store the json value (what I have in the .txt file) into a json variable in a .js file and render it.

edit:
so it has been changed to

$cache =_ _DIR__.'/cached.txt'; 
$data = file_get_contents('http://api.twitter.com/1/lists/statuses.json?    slug=widget&owner_screen_name=webcodepro&count=1&page=1&per_page=8&include_rts=true&include_entities=true'); 

file_put_contents($cache, $data);

the file comes up empty. do you guys know what might be the problem?

Is it possible to store the contents of a .txt file into a json variable in a .js file?

Answer 1

1. No need to utf8_encode things as JSON is already UTF-8
2. You can simply use file_put_contents
3. file_put_contents($cache, 'var myvar = '.$data.';');

-edit-
Code to clarify my solution:

$cache = __DIR__.'/cached.txt';
$data = file_get_contents('http://api.twitter.com/1/lists/statuses.json?slug=widget&owner_screen_name=webcodepro&count=1&page=1&per_page=8&include_rts=true&include_entities=true');
file_put_contents($cache, 'var mydata = '.$data.';');