Code Examples · Nobel Prize API

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[block:code] { "codes": [ { "code": "<?php\n\n# Base URL for the API\n$url = 'http://api.nobelprize.org/v1/prize.json';\n# List Nobel Prizes in Medicine from 1990 to 1994\n$url .= '?category=medicine&year=1990&yearto=1994';\n\n# Retreieve the result from the API using CURL\n$ch = curl_init();\ncurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);\ncurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);\n$string = curl_exec($ch);\ncurl_close($ch);\n\n# Read the JSON output into an associative array\n$result = json_decode($string, true);\n\n# Find out how many years that are listed\n$numyears = count($result['prizes']);\n\nfor ($i = 0; $i < $numyears; $i++) {\n\n# Print out the category and year\n $cat = $result['prizes'][$i]['category'];\n $year = $result['prizes'][$i]['year'];\n print \"$cat $year \\n\";\n\n# Find out how many laureates this category and year\n $numlaur = count($result['prizes'][$i]['laureates']);\n\n for ($j = 0; $j < $numlaur; $j++) {\n\n# Print out the names\n $firstname = $result['prizes'][$i]['laureates'][$j]['firstname'];\n $surname = $result['prizes'][$i]['laureates'][$j]['surname'];\n print \"$firstname $surname \\n\";\n\n }\n print \" \\n\";\n}\n\n?>", "language": "php" } ] } [/block]