title: Getting basic information from Instagram using PHP
body: <pre><code>$url = 'https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/XXXX?access_token=XXXX';
  echo json_decode(file_get_contents($url))-&gt;{'followed_by'};
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am using this code and I do not understand what the issue is. I'm new to PHP so excuse the newbie mistake. I'm trying to get the "followed_by" to display on its own. I've managed to get Facebook's "like" and twitter's followers to display this way.</p>