php read json in a fil code example

Example 1: php decode json file

$json = json_decode(file_get_contents('/path/to/your/file.json'));

Example 2: fetch value from json link in php

$ch = curl_init();
// IMPORTANT: the below line is a security risk, read https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/10/certainty-automated-cacert-pem-management-for-php-software
// in most cases, you should set it to true
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'url_here');
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$obj = json_decode($result);
echo $obj->access_token;