So, I have been coding like a mad person and I needed a simple JSON parser to get declared variables for PHP API Programming. So, This is what I came up with

To run it, you will have to have php-cli enabled. The base install should come with cURL, but if it doesn’t then make sure to recompile

$> php json.php http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline?screen_name=twitterapi

And the code is here:

<?php
	// Command Line JSON Parser.

	if(isset($argv[1])) {

		$ch = curl_init();
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $argv[1]);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

		$ret = curl_exec($ch);

		if(curl_errno($ch)) {
			print "Error with CURL: ".curl_error($ch);
		}

		curl_close($ch);

		print_r(json_decode($ret, true));
	}