Failed to json_decode string from file_get_contents

Question

I recently wanted to fetch and decode API response from a web service. I thought that just just file_get_contents and then json_decode the resultin

Answer 1

you can use curl instead of file_get_contents and get page content without any encoding

   function get_url($link){

      $ch = curl_init();
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 0);
      curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_ENCODING, '');
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, ($link));
      $response = curl_exec($ch);
      curl_close($ch);
      return ($response); 


    }