I have a function which uses curl_multi to make several GET requests. However, I can't figure out how to turn the response to JSON so I could access it on the front end. Usually I use json_decode(), however, it is not working this time. Maybe it's because I'm trying to decode a whole array of strings instead of a singular string?. Currently the response looks like this on the front-end:
And here's my function:
public function getVisited($username){ $user = User::where('username', $username)->first(); $visitedPlaces = $user->visitedPlaces; $finalPlaces = []; foreach ($visitedPlaces as $visitedPlace) { $url = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?placeid=" . $visitedPlace->place_id . "&key=AIzaSyDQ64lYvtaYYYNWxLzkppdN-n0LulMOf4Y"; array_push($finalPlaces, $url); } $result = array(); $curly = array(); $mh = curl_multi_init(); foreach ($finalPlaces as $id => $d) { $curly[$id] = curl_init(); $url = $d; curl_setopt($curly[$id], CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($curly[$id], CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($curly[$id], CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($curly[$id], CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); // Skip SSL Verification curl_multi_add_handle($mh, $curly[$id]); } $running = null; do { curl_multi_exec($mh, $running); } while($running > 0); foreach($curly as $id => $c) { $result[$id] = curl_multi_getcontent($c); curl_multi_remove_handle($mh, $c); } curl_multi_close($mh); return response()->json([ 'sights' => $result ], 201); } 
