Twitter API - How to store JSON in Array?

I'm trying to get the number of followers, follows, tweets, etc. for a user.

I found this api call http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?screen_name=barackobama

How do I take that json result 开发者_StackOverflow中文版and store it in an array?

Thanks

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You can use json_decode and set the second parameter to true:

$json = file_get_contents("http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?screen_name=barackobama");
$json_array = json_decode($json, true);

Of course for file_get_contents() to work with an URL, you have to have allow_url_fopen directive enabled in your php.ini.