A quick "middleman" function I wrote a while back while working on a discord bot in order to pull a random image from giphy based on a search term/s

giphy.php

<?php

$tag = urlencode( $_GET['t'] );
$giphyApiKey = 'dc6zaTOxFJmzC';
$giphyURL = 'http://api.giphy.com/v1/gifs/random?api_key='.$giphyApiKey.'&tag='.$tag;

$giphy = json_decode( file_get_contents( $giphyURL ) );

if ( $giphy->meta->status != 200 ) {
	echo "**GiphyAPI Error: ".$giphy->meta->msg."**";
} else {
	if ( sizeof( $giphy->data ) > 1 ):
		echo "**No results found.**";
	else:
		echo $giphy->data->url;
	endif;
}

?>