Question

Maybe I’ve been sat here too long staring at this but WHY would file_get_contents return false here? I’ve cut and paste the URL and it works fine?

$url = "http://jobs.github.com/positions.json?search=" . $as_any . "&location=" .       $location;
// URL contains http://jobs.github.com/positions.json?search=Project Manager&location=London
var_dump($url);
$json = file_get_contents($url);
var_dump($json);
$results = json_decode($json, TRUE);
var_dump($results);
exit;

EDIT:

I have checked for allow_url_fopen and its definitely on.

Answer 1

Try this:

$query = http_build_query(array('search'=>$as_any, 'location'=>$location));
$url = "http://jobs.github.com/positions.json?" . $query;

The problem is that you weren’t URL-encoding the search term, which contains a space. The request was returning a 400 error from the server, which you’d have noticed if you had error reporting enabled.