gistfile1.php

<?php
// PHP Proxy example for Yahoo! Web services. 
// Responds to both HTTP GET and POST requests
//
// Author: Jason Levitt
// December 7th, 2005
//

// Allowed hostname (api.local and api.travel are also possible here)
define ('HOSTNAME', 'http://pipes.yahoo.com/');

$url = HOSTNAME.$path;

// Open the Curl session
$session = curl_init($url);

// Don't return HTTP headers. Do return the contents of the call
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// Make the call
$json = curl_exec($session);

// The web service returns XML. Set the Content-Type appropriately
header("Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8");

echo $json;
curl_close($session);

?>