Question

I have been searching all over the internet on how I could get the contents of a webpage and then use the information and add it to a database. I finally found get_file_contents. Except I need to be able to not only take the entire contents, I also need to be able to translate the information into variables to add to a database. It also has to support multiple people to be added to the database.
Can someone help me with this? http://www.pixelhoster.net/api/m-shopping-purchases/m/4087396 is the link of the API of the page.

Answer 1

Yes this is a very common question on SO.
But im feeling nice:

<?php 
//Get the json string from the api
$data = file_get_contents('http://www.pixelhoster.net/api/m-shopping-purchases/m/4087396');

//Decode that string, true to decode into an array
$data = json_decode($data,true);

print_r($data);
/*Echos 
Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [user] => Array
                (
                    [user_id] => 917115
                    [username] => Fiskarbengtson
                )

            [item_name] => VIP
            [item_price] => 15.00
            [purchase_date] => 1330322376
            [currency] => USD
            [item_id] => 1639
            [custom_field] => 
        )

)

*/

//So to access the array 
echo $data[0]['user']['username'];
echo $data[0]['item_name'];
?>