Easy way to (currently) get MtGox price into PHP variable?

[Bit_Happy]

Please help w/ an easy question:

Note: I'm not looking to need to Authenticate w/ the full API
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/MtGox/API#Authentication

1) This URl:
https://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php
Returns the data in a browser, so it must be possible to do a simple script like this (for example)

Code:

<?php

$jsonurl = "https://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php";
$json = file_get_contents($jsonurl,0,null,null);
$values = json_decode($json, true);

echo $values['ticker']['sell'];

?>

The above just gives a blank page.
This must be easy, can someone please tell me what is wrong?
Thank you very much.

[senbonzakura]

hope this helps

Code:

<?php
function updateExchangeRate() {
	$result = False;
	$url = "https://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php";
	
	if ($CH = curl_init()) {
		curl_setopt($CH, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
		curl_setopt($CH, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, True);
		curl_setopt($CH, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, False);
		curl_setopt($CH, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, False);
		curl_setopt($CH, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
		curl_setopt($CH, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "MtGox PHP Client");
		
		if ($output = curl_exec($CH)) {
			if ($result = json_decode($output, True)) {
				if ($result = $result['ticker']) {
					databaseQuery("UPDATE `mytable`.`misc` SET `value`=:price WHERE `key`='mtgox'", False, array('price' => round($result['last'], 2)));
				}
			} else {
				// JSON decoding failed. //
			}
		} else {
			// cURL connection failed. //
		}
	} else {
		// cURL initialization failed. //
	}
	$CH = NULL;
}
?>

[Bit_Happy]

Will try it; Thanks senbonzakura.

[senbonzakura]

the above saves the price on database, and then i get the updated price each time from database.

you can alter it any way you like, good luck, tell us if it works for you.

[Bit_Happy]

...tell us if it works for you.

After the curl, I just needed the variable, so  (for example)

Code:

	//decode from an object to array
		$output_mtgox = json_decode($mtgoxjson);
		$output_mtgox_1 = get_object_vars($output_mtgox);
		$mtgox_array = get_object_vars($output_mtgox_1['ticker']);

$ask_price= $mtgox_array['sell'];

Yes that helped, thanks 

[senbonzakura]

excellent

I am new to this too, I learn by looking at example code, cant code from scratch , so example code saves me time

are you developing a site or just learning php ?

[Bit_Happy]

excellent

I am new to this too, I learn by looking at example code, cant code from scratch , so example code saves me time

are you developing a site or just learning php ?

Similar here, learn by example then make changes and learn even more when trying to fix what's broken.