I'm using this code to get a token from Spotify's Web API:
<?php
$url = 'https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token';
$method = 'POST';
$credentials = "{Client ID}:{Client Secret}";
$headers = array(
"Accept: */*",
"Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
"User-Agent: runscope/0.1",
"Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode($credentials));
$data = 'grant_type=client_credentials';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
?>
That results in this showing up in the browser:
{"access_token":"{token}","token_type":"Bearer","expires_in":3600}
Great! But how do I extract "{token}" from the response and use it as a parameter in a request to the API? For example in the request to https://api.spotify.com/v1/users/{user_id}/playlists which needs the token in the header field.
Thanks!