index.php

<?php
$url = "http://itools.codexpedia.com/demo/php-curl-example/getEmployees.php";
//  Initiate curl
$ch = curl_init();
// Disable SSL verification
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
// Will return the response, if false it print the response
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// Set the url
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
// Execute
$results=curl_exec($ch);
$results=json_decode($results, true);

var_dump($results);

getEmployees.php

<?php
	header("Content-type: application/json");
    $employees = 
    array(
			array
			(
			"name" => "Jack",
			"title" => "Magager",
			"salary" => "$60,000",
			),

			array
			(
			"name" => "Joe",
			"title" => "Developer",
			"salary" => "$50,000",
			),

			array
			(
			"name" => "Susan",
			"title" => "Marketer",
			"salary" => "$50,000",
			)
		);

    echo json_encode($employees);

html output