How to correctly access the server via json from under php?

Question

PHP

Trying options

$jsonLink = ‘http://speller.yandex.net/services/spellservice.json/checkText?text=malavi’;
//1
$data1= json_decode($jsonLink);
var_dump($data1);
//2
$data2 = file_get_contents($jsonLink);
var_dump($data2);

in response to "silence"

Answer 1

$data = json_decode(file_get_contents($jsonLink));