getcomments.php

<?php
//open the file and decode the JSON into an Array
$contents =  utf8_encode(file_get_contents("comments.json"));
$commentrecords = json_decode($contents, true);

//If we have comments, loop trhough them and create HTML list items for each
if($commentrecords){
	foreach($commentrecords as $commentrecord){
		echo "<li>" .$commentrecord["comment"] ;
		echo "<br><strong>" . $commentrecord["name"] .  "</strong></li>";

	}
}

?>