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Search iTunes Music Library for a search term via API

<?php

if(isset($_POST['term']))

{

    $term = urlencode($_POST['term']); // user input 'term' in a form

    $json =  file_get_contents('http://itunes.apple.com/search?term='.$term.'&limit=25&media=music&entity=musicArtist,musicTrack,album,mix,song');    

    $array = json_decode($json, true);

 

    foreach($array['results'] as $value)

    {

        echo '<p>';

        echo $value['artistName'].'<br />';

        echo $value['artistLinkUrl'].'<br />';

        echo $value['primaryGenreName'];

        echo '</p>';

    }

}

?>

 

<form method="post">

    <input type="text" name="term" /><input type="submit" value="Go" />

</form>

       

$js= json_decode(file_get_contents('http://itunes.apple.com/search?term=jack+johnson&limit=25&media=music&entity=musicArtist,musicTrack,album,mix,song'));

       

$data = file_get_contents('http://itunes.apple.com/search?term=jack+johnson&limit=25&media=music&entity=musicArtist,musicTrack,album,mix,song');

       

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://itunes.apple.com/search?term=jack+johnson&limit=25&media=music&entity=musicArtist,musicTrack,album,mix,song");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$data = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

       

$response = json_decode($data);

var_dump($response);

       

foreach ($response->results as $result)

{

    echo "Artist: ".$result->artistName."<br />".PHP_EOL;

}