read json file (ajax + php curl)

[gilyotina]

hi,

what am i doing wrong? tried several ways but each time i get a json.parse error.

here's the code:

function curl_file_get_contents($url) {
	$ch = curl_init();
	$timeout = 5; 
	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
	$file_contents = curl_exec($ch);		//curl output to string
	curl_close($ch);
	
	$jsonIterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator (
		new RecursiveArrayIterator(json_decode($file_contents, TRUE)),
		RecursiveIteratorIterator::SELF_FIRST
	);
	
	foreach ($jsonIterator as $key => $value) {
		if(is_array($value)) {
			echo "$key:\n";
		}
		else {
			echo "$key => $value\n";
		}
	}

}

tried it also without the recursiveIterator, just a simple foreach, didn't help.

the result of the echo is sent to:

$json = json_encode(curl_file_get_contents($jsonPath));
echo $json;

..and then with ajax to the div.

Any ideas?

[NoEffinWay]

Not without the error it is giving....

[gilyotina]

heres what i see in my console:

<b>Fatal error</b>: Uncaught exception 'InvalidArgumentException' with message 'Passed variable is not an array or object, using empty array instead'

and its pointing at the following line of code:

new RecursiveArrayIterator(json_decode($file_contents, TRUE)),

so my $file_contents is empty, but i dont understand why..my json file is valid (and not empty).

So..any ideas?

[gilyotina]

curl doesnt know relative paths...of course.