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Posted by Ang Kee Hian
Ang Kee Hian
Courses Plus Student 12,213 Points

Question regarding storing JSON feed locally

I'm a little confused regarding the following function that is used to retrieve the JSON data:

function wptreehouse_get_badges_profile( $wptreehouse_username ) {
    $usernameUrl = 'http://www.teamtreehouse.com/' . $wptreehouse_username . '.json';
    $args = array('timeout' => 120);
    $wptreehouse_userinfo = wp_remote_get($usernameUrl, $args);
    return json_decode($wptreehouse_userinfo['body']);
}

This function is then being called and stored in a variable $wptreehouse_profile that is inside the main wptreehouse_badges_options_page().

In this case, isn't the api being called every time the user fills in the input with a username and submits the form?

How is this storing the JSON data locally?