Using contains key with file_get_contents - file-get-contents

Question

So I'm trying to read a JSON file at a seperate url and based off what what is in the JSON file I would like for the program to do something. But the way I'm currently trying to do it is not working.
<?php
$homepage = file_get_contents('http://direct.cyberkitsune.net/canibuycubeworld/status.json');
//echo $homepage;
if($homepage contains 'f'){
echo 'true';
}else{
echo 'Something went terribly wrong!";
}
?>
This is the error that I get
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/a1285224/public_html/cubeworld.php on line 4
When I searched up the "file_get_contents" under the php manual it says that it should read the entire file into a string, so I'm a little confused why I'm getting a string error.
Thanks~

Answer 1

In stead of 'contains', see the strpos function. Also, you must close single quotes with single quotes, and double quotes with double quotes.
i.e.
$homepage = file_get_contents("http://direct.cyberkitsune.net/canibuycubeworld/status.json");
// echo $homepage;
if (strpos($homepage, "f") !== false)
{
echo "true";
}
else
{
echo "Somethingwentterriblywrong!";
}
Based on what you are trying to do, also see PHP's JSON library.
To get the JSON data, you can use json_decode.
To dump all vars:
$json = json_decode($homepage, true);
var_dump($json);
To get all the other data:
printf("Time: %s<br>Site: %s<br>Reg: %s<br>Shop: %s", $json['time'], $json['site'], $json['reg'], $json['shop']);