It is probably because I am tired but I can't figure out the problem with my signature image stats update script, here is the faulting code:

//Nocache

header('Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate');

header('Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT');

//Write time to file for run check

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');

$fh = fopen('lastrun.txt', 'w');

fwrite($fh, time());

fclose($fh);

//Get JSON feed

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,'http://www.lcpdfr.com/cops/usagestats/endpoint.php?variable=statistics&action=render&username=Sniper296');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$curl = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

//JSON to array

$json = json_decode($curl, true);

//Save stats array to file

$fh1 = fopen('array.txt', 'w');

foreach($json as $key => $value) {

fwrite($fh1, substr($key, 1, strlen($key)) . ':' . $value . "\n");

}

fclose($fh1);

unset($value);

//echo $json[sPursuits];

It worked this afternoon but now it throws "Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /signatue/lcpdfr/update.php on line 36"

What's the contents of $json? Try doing a var_dump($json) after the code just to check it's decoding properly.

$json dumps NULL

The problem appears to be in json_decode

hmm, weird.

Try and replace

//Get JSON feed

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,'http://www.lcpdfr.com/cops/usagestats/endpoint.php?variable=statistics&action=render&username=Sniper296');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$curl = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

with just

$curl = file_get_contents('http://www.lcpdfr.com/cops/usagestats/endpoint.php?variable=statistics&action=render&username=Sniper296');

Just incase curl is the issue.

Nope, both file_get_contents and curl retrieve the same content:

{"sPursuits":417,"sSuspectsArrested":245,"sCitations":230,"sBackupUnits":656,"sEvidence":16,"sKilled":11,"sAccidents":131,"sNoose":30,"sHelis":40,"aLoadStatus":[4.33,4.33,4.52],"bStatus":true}

Have a try using:

$json = json_decode($curl);

Nope, $json still dumps NULL.

Weird issue.

Try putting this before the decode:

$curl=preg_replace('/.+?({.+}).+/','$1',$curl); 

You sure you have the JSON module loaded? (Odd but could be right depending on the situation)

Nope still dumps NULL, it is fine until json_decode.

Try with:

$json = json_decode($curl, true, 1024);

Hmm, I'll take a look into this, I seem to be getting a similar result in a PHP testing script.

Try with:

$json = json_decode($curl, true, 1024);

Still $json dumps NULL

I think I fixed the issue, looks like the page was sending the wrong content-type (don't ask me why that was effecting the string though )

This testing script seems to be working now:

<?php

$stuff = file_get_contents('http://www.lcpdfr.com/cops/usagestats/endpoint.php?variable=statistics&action=render&username=Sniper296');

var_dump($stuff);

$json = json_decode($stuff, true);

var_dump($json);

?>

Yes, my original code is working again, on a side note I had to trick the forum using .htaccess into thinking the image is at

http://twoninersix.multigamemods.com/signatue/lcpdfr/stats.png

when it is at

http://twoninersix.multigamemods.com/signatue/lcpdfr/stats.php

to avoid

[#10210] You are not allowed to use that image extension on this board.

Yes, my original code is working again, on a side note I had to trick the forum using .htaccess into thinking the image is at

http://twoninersix.multigamemods.com/signatue/lcpdfr/stats.png

when it is at

http://twoninersix.multigamemods.com/signatue/lcpdfr/stats.php

to avoid

[#10210] You are not allowed to use that image extension on this board.

Stupid IPB - awesome signature and awesome use of the API!

Stupid IPB

+1 for that

awesome signature and awesome use of the API!

Thanks

Uber late response, but one thing to note with json_decode() is that it has some native issues with some unicode/multibyte stuff, instead of even producing a proper error, it will just indeed, return null.

You can basically break your way around this with this lovely hackery (okay not really hackery) of code;

$json_obj = json_decode(mb_convert_encoding($stuff, 'UTF-8', mb_detect_encoding($stuff, 'UTF-8, ISO-8859-1', true)));

Might also be using the following at the start of things for 'modern' sake if anything;

declare(encoding='UTF-8');

mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");