Parsing json data using php from youtube data api v3

Question

I am using Youtube data api v3 to retrieve data for search query using the below url https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&q=text&key=apikey&maxResults=25.

I am getting json response, while i am using json decode to parse the json data, i am getting empty result, can any one tell me how to retrieve the data

I am using below php code to parse

$videourl="https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&q=hello&key=apikey&maxResults=25";
            $json = file_get_contents($videourl);
            $data = json_decode($json,true);
print_r($data);

obtaining the json response from the below url: https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&q=hello&key=apikey&maxResults=25

I am getting title,description,image details in json dictionary format — lalith458
what do you mean by empty result? what exactly is the output? — basic_space

mAsT3RpEE mAsT3RpEE · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-05T11:55:12

if (extension_loaded('curl')) {
    # create a new cURL resource
    $ch = curl_init();

    # set URL and other appropriate options
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://googleapis.com/.....");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
    # Setting cURL's option to return the webpage data
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);

    # grab URL and pass it to the browser
    if($json = curl_exec($ch)) {
        if(!($data = @json_decode($json)) instanceof stdClass) {
            trigger_error('Unable to decode json. '. print_r(error_get_last(), true));
        }
    }

    else trigger_error('CUrl Error:'.curl_error($ch));

    # close cURL resource, and free up system resources
    curl_close($ch);

}

else trigger_error('CUrl unsupported', E_USER_WARNING);

Parsing json data using php from youtube data api v3

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