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Php – JSON sends funny result

I am trying to read this JSON file, which I checked is valid
https://www.webminepool.com/api/PK_MgGG3Z8joogwr28PmkE9i/wmc_rate/1000

Here is my code:

//normally the rate is changed via PHP
$checkbtc = "https://www.webminepool.com/api/PK_MgGG3Z8joogwr28PmkE9i/wmc_rate/1000";

$json = file_get_contents($checkbtc);
$json = utf8_encode($json);
$json_data = json_decode($json,true);
print('<br>...'.$json_data.'...<br>');
var_dump($json_data);

The file in my browser sends :

{"success":true,"satoshi":"26.936"}

which seems correct

The result when I execute php is :

<br>......<br>

So where am I wrong ???
Thanks

file()
file_get_contents()
with or without utf8_encode
STUCK

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Answers


  1. 0

    Seems like the endpoint is doing some checks to validate your user-agent, you better to use cURL with it.

    $checkbtc = "https://www.webminepool.com/api/PK_MgGG3Z8joogwr28PmkE9i/wmc_rate/1000";

$cu = curl_init($checkbtc);
curl_setopt($cu, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
  'content-type' => 'application/json',
  'user-agent' => 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:122.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/122.0'
]);
curl_setopt($cu, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
$json = curl_exec($cu);

//$json = file_get_contents($checkbtc);
//$json = utf8_encode($json);
$json_data = json_decode($json,true);
//print('<br>...'.$json_data.'...<br>');
var_dump($json_data);
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  2. 0

    Check that here you are getting valid JSON string.

    $json = file_get_contents($checkbtc);

    Remove this line. No need and is deprecated method as well.

    $json = utf8_encode($json);

    From here tested and works.

    $json = '{"success":true,"satoshi":"26.936"}';
$json_data = json_decode($json,true);
echo var_dump($json_data);

    returns:

    array(2) {
  ["success"]=>
  bool(true)
  ["satoshi"]=>
  string(6) "26.936"
}

    utf8_encode — This function is deprecated as of PHP 8.2.0.
    Alternative: mb_convert_encoding(), which supports ISO-8859-1 and many other encodings.

    Alternative way to get content from APi point:

    • Use cURL when you need more control over the HTTP request, such as setting headers, handling different HTTP methods, or dealing with more complex scenarios like authentication or proxy servers.
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