Json request

[nagrgk]

external url having content in {string:value} format

how do i get it and display using php?

[bdl]

Context? Something like http://externaldomain.com/feed.json?

If you truly want to handle this with PHP, grab the data using the cURL (http://www.php.net/curl) extension and from there you can parse the string, pass to an Ajax request, etc.

[rnd me]

external url having content in {string:value} format

how do i get it and display using php?

youll have to parse it yourself if it's not JSON (the example ain't).
If it's JSON, you can use php's json_decode().

[ahallicks]

youll have to parse it yourself if it's not JSON (the example ain't).
If it's JSON, you can use php's json_decode().

Tho be careful because the json_decode() function is only available in PHP >= 5.3. If you are using an older version there is a nice script that works for older version:

This might help (http://willshouse.com/2009/06/12/using-json_encode-and-json_decode-in-php4/)