gistfile1.php

<?php

$apiUrl = "https://www.googleapis.com/civicinfo/us_v1/representatives/lookup?fields=officials&key=AIzaSyARokMXd73Cj3k0rXRFh-s689q_uprujTY";

// $json_url = $apiUrl;
// 
// $json = file_get_contents($json_url);
// 
// $data = json_decode($json,true);
// 
// 
// // Result: null

// 
// class User {
//     public $address = "11038 Kirkridge Dr. Houston Texas";
// }
//  
// $user = new User();
// 
// 
// $url = $apiUrl;    
// $content = json_encode($user);
// 
// echo $content;
// echo "<br>";
// 
// $curl = curl_init($url);
// curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");  
// curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
// curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,
//         array("Content-type: application/json", "X-JavaScript-User-Agent:  Google APIs Explorer"));
// curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
// curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $content);
// 
// $json_response = curl_exec($curl);
// 
// $status = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
// 
// if ( $status != 201 ) {
//     die("Error: call to URL $url failed with status $status, response $json_response, curl_error " . curl_error($curl) . ", curl_errno " . curl_errno($curl));
// }
// 
// 
// curl_close($curl);
// 
// $response = json_decode($json_response, true);



// The data to send to the API
$postData = array(
    'address' => '11038 Kirkrdige Dr. Houston Tx',
);

// Setup cURL
$ch = curl_init($apiUrl);
curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
    CURLOPT_POST => TRUE,
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
        'Content-Type: application/json',
		'X-JavaScript-User-Agent:  Google APIs Explorer'
		
    ),
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode($postData)
));

// Send the request
$response = curl_exec($ch);

// Check for errors
if($response === FALSE){
    die(curl_error($ch));
}

// Decode the response
$responseData = json_decode($response, TRUE);

// Print the date from the response

foreach($responseData['offices'] as $val){

    echo "ID: ".$val['officials']."<br>";
    echo "Name: ".$val['name']."<br>";
    echo "Party: ".$val['party']."<br><br>";
}

foreach($responseData['officials'] as $val){

    echo "ID: ".$val['officials']."<br>";
    echo "Name: ".$val['name']."<br>";
    echo "Party: ".$val['party']."<br><br>";
}

?>