json_decode limitations?

Question

I am trying to decode the JSON at https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?include_entities=true&incslude_rts=0&screen_name=microsoft&count=200&exclude_replies=1&contributor_details=0 with json_decode() in PHP (decoding as an associative array, so the second parameter is set to TRUE.

The problem is that it seems to not do anything (no error, warning either). The data contains 200 tweets + some extra data about them. If I fetch only let's say 50 tweets, the json_decode function runs successfully.

So my question is: is json_decode not able to decode large strings?

Edit: my code:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); // $url is the above mentioned URL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST,0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,0);

$content = curl_exec($ch);
print_r(json_decode($content,true));

Answer 1

There is something wrong with your cURL I suppose. I just tried the following code with the URL you have provided and works just fine:

$curl = curl_init();
$url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?include_entities=true&incslude_rts=0&screen_name=microsoft&count=200&exclude_replies=1&contributor_details=0';

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

$content = curl_exec($curl);
var_dump(json_decode($content, true));