Get the data from json url using php? -

this json api : https://jobs.github.com/positions.json?description=java&page=1 want data url.

<?php  $url = file_get_contents('https://jobs.github.com/positions.json?description=java&page=1'); var_dump(json_decode($url,true));   ?> 

this code return null check url in json validator: http://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/ json valid con't able data url please me...

try script determine problem is. if there no json module installed (see @julian comment), can try use php implementations of json this: http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=198

if (! extension_loaded('json')) {     echo 'module json not available!';     exit(); }  $url = file_get_contents('https://jobs.github.com/positions.json?description=java&page=1'); $data = json_decode($url,true);  switch (json_last_error()) {     case json_error_none:         echo ' - no errors';     break;     case json_error_depth:         echo ' - maximum stack depth exceeded';     break;     case json_error_state_mismatch:         echo ' - underflow or modes mismatch';     break;     case json_error_ctrl_char:         echo ' - unexpected control character found';     break;     case json_error_syntax:         echo ' - syntax error, malformed json';     break;     case json_error_utf8:         echo ' - malformed utf-8 characters, possibly incorrectly encoded';     break;     default:         echo ' - unknown error';     break; }