Serving JSON

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Hey all codemasters!

I am struggling to get my head around something so trivial.

I have an already formatted JSON file, I want to make this available as a service for our web developer to be able to make ajax calls to. It is giving him cross domain errors though when he tries to call it as a flat file from my server.

What is the easiest way to serve the json so he can access it without issues?

Sorry, I am very clueless when it comes to this stuff and don't have a lot of time to research this stuff.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Will something like this work?

<?php

header('Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate');
header('Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT');
header('Content-type: application/json');

$param1 = "";
$param2 = "";

if (isset($_GET['param1'])) {
 $param1 = $_GET['param1'];
} else
$param1 = "";

if (isset($_GET['param2'])) {
 $param2 = $_GET['param2'];
 $file_name = "/var/www/api/histories/test-" . $param1 . "-" . $param2 . ".json";
 $json_file_contents = file_get_contents($file_name);
 echo $json_file_contents;
} else
$param2 = "";


?>

Can I just echo the data like this? I know it's very crude to call the files like this, I have everything in a mongo database but implementing all the libraries required on his side is just a mission right now.

 

[icyrus]

Just serve the json file from your web server directly, no need to involve php.

If you are having cross-domain issues you may need to use CORS or JSONP.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Just serve the json file from your web server directly, no need to involve php.

If you are having cross-domain issues you may need to use CORS or JSONP.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing

Awesome. Thanks for this!