# How to use cURL to Get JSON Data and Decode JSON Data in PHP? (ok)

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C:\xampp\htdocs\abc\index.php

```php
<?php
// Initializing curl
$curl = curl_init();
// Sending GET request to reqres.in
// server to get JSON data
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL,
  "https://reqres.in/api/users?page=2");
// Telling curl to store JSON
// data in a variable instead
// of dumping on screen
curl_setopt($curl,
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// Executing curl
$response = curl_exec($curl);
// Checking if any error occurs
// during request or not
if ($e = curl_error($curl)) {
  echo $e;
} else {
  // Decoding JSON data
  $decodedData =
    json_decode($response, true);
  // Outputting JSON data in
  // Decoded form
  echo '<pre>';
  var_export($decodedData);
  echo '</pre>';
}
// Closing curl
curl_close($curl);
?>
<?php
// Initializing curl
$curl = curl_init();
// Sending GET request to reqres.in
// server to get JSON data
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL,
  "http://localhost/abc/data.json");
// Telling curl to store JSON
// data in a variable instead
// of dumping on screen
curl_setopt($curl,
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// Executing curl
$response = curl_exec($curl);
// Checking if any error occurs
// during request or not
if ($e = curl_error($curl)) {
  echo $e;
} else {
  // Decoding JSON data
  $decodedData =
    json_decode($response, true);
  // Outputting JSON data in
  // Decoded form
  echo '<pre>';
  var_export($decodedData);
  echo '</pre>';
}
// Closing curl
curl_close($curl);
?>
```

C:\xampp\htdocs\abc\data.json

```javascript
{
	"page": 2,
	"per_page": 6,
	"total": 12,
	"total_pages": 2,
	"data": [
	{
		"id": 7,
		"email": "michael.lawson@reqres.in",
		"first_name": "Michael",
		"last_name": "Lawson",
		"avatar": "https://reqres.in/img/faces/7-image.jpg"
	},
	{
		"id": 8,
		"email": "lindsay.ferguson@reqres.in",
		"first_name": "Lindsay",
		"last_name": "Ferguson",
		"avatar": "https://reqres.in/img/faces/8-image.jpg"
	},
	{
		"id": 9,
		"email": "tobias.funke@reqres.in",
		"first_name": "Tobias",
		"last_name": "Funke",
		"avatar": "https://reqres.in/img/faces/9-image.jpg"
	},
	{
		"id": 10,
		"email": "byron.fields@reqres.in",
		"first_name": "Byron",
		"last_name": "Fields",
		"avatar": "https://reqres.in/img/faces/10-image.jpg"
	},
	{
		"id": 11,
		"email": "george.edwards@reqres.in",
		"first_name": "George",
		"last_name": "Edwards",
		"avatar": "https://reqres.in/img/faces/11-image.jpg"
	},
	{
		"id": 12,
		"email": "rachel.howell@reqres.in",
		"first_name": "Rachel",
		"last_name": "Howell",
		"avatar": "https://reqres.in/img/faces/12-image.jpg"
	}],
	"support":
	{
		"url": "https://reqres.in/#support-heading",
		"text": "To keep ReqRes free, contributions towards server costs are appreciated!"
	}
}
```


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