This is an example of json api connection with PHP

json_api.php

<?php
$apikey = 'insert_your_api_key_here';
$q = urlencode('Toy Story'); // make sure to url encode an query parameters

// construct the query with our apikey and the query we want to make
$endpoint = 'http://api.rottentomatoes.com/api/public/v1.0/movies.json?apikey=' . $apikey . '&q=' . $q;

// setup curl to make a call to the endpoint
$session = curl_init($endpoint);

// indicates that we want the response back
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// exec curl and get the data back
$data = curl_exec($session);

// remember to close the curl session once we are finished retrieveing the data
curl_close($session);

// decode the json data to make it easier to parse the php
$search_results = json_decode($data);
if ($search_results === NULL) die('Error parsing json');

// play with the data!
$movies = $search_results->movies;
echo '<ul>';
foreach ($movies as $movie) {
  echo '<li><a href="' . $movie->links->alternate . '">' . $movie->title . " (" . $movie->year . ")</a></li>";
}
echo '</ul>';


?>