Question

i’m connecting to a webservice using PHP and JSON. the connection is good but i want to add 2 error messages when (1) connection to the webservice is lost and (2) if webservice returns a http 500 error.

any ideas on how to do that?? i’m new to json so not sure how to do that…

this is how i connect and get data form the webservice

$url = "http://webservice.com/{$account}?loc={$loc}"; 
$content = file_get_contents($url);
$json = json_decode($content, true);

Answer 1

For error 1:

file_get_contents will return FALSE if what it is trying to load fails.

For error 2:

Depending on what your HTTP Error 500 outputs on the page, you can simply use file_get_contents and look for a certain string indicating the error using strpos and act accordingly.

Reference: http://php.net/manual/en/function.strpos.php