Hi All
Just joined this forum.. hope to get quick responses from here. Would like to help others too..

Problem:

There is a file on a 3rd party server, and if you visit that link with few parameters after the link, it results in JSON format. EG:

Link: api.facebook.com?name=zuhair&age=25

when i visit this i am taken to a page where it has some text result in JSON format.

Is there any way that i can get this JSON result without visiting the link manually, through some php or java script.

Searching on google yields that there is somthing call JSON callback method which fulfils this requirement.

Thanks alot in advance.

PHP Code:

<?php

$json = file_get_contents("http://api.facebook.com?name=zuhair&age=25");
$data = json_decode($json);
print_r($data);

?>

Note that you could get data from a third party website with Javascript, because it could create DDOS bomb in case of XSS or else. There are some hacks indeed to do this (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy for more info)

You could also use Curl or an ajax request

+1 for smoseley's response.

Id personally do it that way.