Call a web service through php

Question

I am new to PHP. I am trying to call a web service (written in Java) that is in the following format URL:

http://geoserver.com/track?uid='user'&sdate='sdatetime'&edate='edate' 'etime'

It is returning JSON data in following format:

[{"lat":"1","lng":"2","time":"2013-06-23 14:00:42"},
{"lat":"3","lng":"4","time":"2013-06-23 14:10:10"},
{"lat":"5","lng":"6","time":"2013-06-23 14:21:00"}]

How can I call this URL through PHP?

See my answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/16798577/362536 — Brad, Jul 07 '13 at 05:43
BTW you've used quote blocks instead of code blocks. Click in the `{}` instead of the quote marks next time. — Fabrício Matté, Jul 07 '13 at 05:44

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 07 '13 at 05:43

There is couple of ways to call this using php. one method is using curl, another method would be using file_get_contents

if using file_get_contents

$json = file_get_contents("http://geoserver.com/track?uid='user'&sdate='sdatetime'&edate='edateetime'");

$output = json_decode($json);

//you can access 

 $output[0]->lat; //your object properties this way.

Call a web service through php

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