A php script that retrieve a list of users and displays the name and email

fetchusersphp

<?php

// Define the API URL
$apiUrl = "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users";

try {
  // Create a cURL resource
  $curl = curl_init($apiUrl);

  // Set cURL options
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5); // Set a timeout limit (optional)

  // Execute the request and handle errors
  $response = curl_exec($curl);
  $curlError = curl_error($curl);

  // Close the cURL resource
  curl_close($curl);

  // Check for cURL errors
  if ($curlError) {
    throw new Exception("cURL Error: " . $curlError);
  }

  // Decode the JSON response
  $data = json_decode($response, true);

  // Check if decoding was successful
  if (!is_array($data)) {
    throw new Exception("Failed to decode JSON response.");
  }

  // Loop through users and display information
  echo "** User Information **\n";
  foreach ($data as $user) {
    echo "Name: " . $user['name'] . "\n";
    echo "Email: " . $user['email'] . "\n\n";
  }
} catch (Exception $e) {
  // Display error message if an exception occurs
  echo "Error: " . $e->getMessage();
}