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I'm a newbie, sorry if my question is easy...

I'm trying to get the JSON output of Geonames Timezone into a PHP array.
Below is the code (username changed because I don't think that should be public?)
The code works on my Localhost, but when I upload it to my server, it doesn't. What could be wrong?
Thanks in advance...

$lat=10;
$long=6;
$url = "http://api.geonames.org/timezoneJSON?lat=$lat&lng=$long&username=MY_USERNAME";
# I ALSO TRIED $url = "http://api.geonames.org/timezoneJSON?lat=".$lat."&lng=".$long."&username=MY_USERNAME";

rawurlencode(utf8_encode($url));

$data = file_get_contents($url); // put the contents of the file into a variable

$decoded = json_decode($data, true); // decode data

print_r($decoded); // prints the resulting array