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hellomello
hellomello

Reputation: 8585

getting NULL with cURL but Array with file_get_contents()

I'm having problem with CURL from a link. I'm able to get an output with file_get_contents(); But having problems with CURL

use json_decode I get a NULL with cURL, but with file_get_contents() I get an Array

Using cURL

$url="https://example.com/" 
$ch= curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
$json= json_decode(curl_exec($ch),true); 
echo $json; //outputs NULL

Using file_get_contents();

$json_pi = file_get_contents($url); 
echo json_decode($json_pi,true);

Can anyone help me understand cURL? And why I might be getting these two conflicting results?

Thank you!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1430

Answers (1)

Pekka
Pekka

Reputation: 449395

You are not doing any error checking after your calls, so if something goes wrong, you will never hear about it.

one of these will probably reveal what the problem is. For example, it could be that the curl call fetches the data in a non-UTF-8 character set, which will cause json_decode() to break - it expects UTF-8 data at all times.

Upvotes: 1

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