return and display values from class api php

[phprican]

Good morning everyone, I am very new to this so please be patient

I have a class that has a link in the class that follows as this.

private $apiPath = "http://www.website.com/api/v1/users/";

Now if i take the link and add a username like this

private $apiPath = "http://www.website.com/api/v1/users/tom";

it loads all the stats about the username, I have a profile page that i would love to pull some of those values

now on i have the username available so that it will get the proper user my issue is how do i go about incorporating
it in to my profile page how do i display the values.

i have the class here

<?php


class sProfile {
	public $profileData = array();
	public $soldierName;
	public $jsonError;
	public $cache = false;
	public $CacheDir = "cache/";
	public $hasError = false;
	private $apiLinks = array();
	private $apiPath = "http://www.website.com/api/v1/users/";
	public function __construct($soldierName) {
		$this->soldierName = urlencode(trim($soldierName));
		if(empty($this->soldierName)) {
			$this->hasError = true;  //oops, the set name was blank
			$this->jsonError = "A blank Soldier Name was entered.";
			return false;	
		}
		$this->apiLink = $this->apiPath.$this->soldierName;
		return true;
	}
	public function BuildProfile () {
		$dataStream = @file_get_contents($this->apiLink);
		if(!$dataStream) {
			$this->hasError = true; //HTTP Not available?  Unlikey	
			$this->jsonError = "Unable to reach the stats API.  Try again later.";
		}
		$dataArray = json_decode($dataStream, true);
		if(is_array($dataArray)) {
			if(trim($dataArray['errors']) != '') {
				$this->jsonError = $dataArray['errors'];  //API returned a predefined error
				$this->hasError = true;
			}
			$this->profileData = $dataArray['soldier'];
		} else {
			$this->hasError = true;  //Was not a JSON response (Player not found)	
			$this->jsonError = "Player not found.";
		}
		if($this->hasError) {
			return false;	
		}
		$this->FlattenprofileData();
		$this->FlattenProfile();
		$this->CaculateStats();
		return true;
	}
	public function CaculateStats () {
		$this->CaculateHeadShots();
		extract($this->FlatProfile);
		$this->LevelXPNeeded = $this->FlatProfile['LvlXPEnd'] - $this->FlatProfile['LvlXPStart'];
		$this->LevelXPCurrent = $this->FlatProfile['LvlXP'] - $this->FlatProfile['LvlXPStart'];
		$tnl = number_format($this->LevelXPNeeded - $this->LevelXPCurrent);
		$nextRank = $NextRankInGameDisplay;
		$kdr = @round($EnemyNeutralized / $TimesNeutralized,2);
		$accuracy = @round(($TotalHits / $TotalShots) * 100, 2);
		$kills =  number_format($EnemyNeutralized);

	$khr = @round(($this->FlatProfile['HeadShots'] / $EnemyNeutralized) * 100, 2);

	$this->FlatProfile['HeadShotPercentage'] = $khr;
	$this->FlatProfile['Accuracy'] = $accuracy;
	$this->FlatProfile['Kills'] = $kills;
	$this->FlatProfile['NextRankEXP'] = $tnl;
	$this->FlatProfile['KDR'] = $kdr;
	$this->FlatProfile['PlayTime'] = @round((($this->FlatProfile['TimePlaying'] / 60) / 60),2)."Hrs";
}
public function FlattenprofileData () {
	foreach($this->profileData as $k1 => $v1) {
		$this->profileData[$k1] = $this->FlattenArray($v1);
	}
}
public function WriteCache () {
	return file_put_contents($this->CacheDir . md5(strtoupper($this->soldierName)), json_encode($this->profileData));	
}
public function ReadCache () {
	if(file_exists($this->CacheDir . md5(strtoupper($this->soldierName)))) {
		$lastSaved = filemtime($this->CacheDir . md5(strtoupper($this->soldierName)));
		if(time() - 300 < $lastSaved) {
			$this->profileData = json_decode(file_get_contents($this->CacheDir . md5(strtoupper($this->soldierName))),true);
			return true;
		}
	}
	return false; 
}
public function CaculateHeadShots () {
	$this->FlatProfile['HeadShots'] = 0;
	foreach($this->profileData['weapons'] as $weapon => $data) {
		$this->FlatProfile['HeadShots'] += $data['HitChart']['Head'];
	}
}
public function FlattenProfile () {
	$this->FlatProfile = array();
	$this->FlatProfile = array_merge($this->profileData['profile'], $this->profileData['career'], $this->profileData['objectives']);
}
public function FlattenArray ($array) {
	foreach($array as $k => $v) {
		if(is_array($v)) {
			if(array_key_exists('Value', $v)) {
				$array[$k] = $v['Value'];
			} else {
				foreach($v as $kk => $vv) {
					if(is_array($vv)) {
						$array[$k] = $this->FlattenArray($array[$k]);	
					}
				}
			}
		}
	}
	return $array;
}

}
?>

[phprican]

i created a stats page and added this php code but it don't display anything just blank

<?php

$apiUrl = "http://www.website.com/api/v1/users/username";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$apiUrl);
$result=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$userArray = json_decode($result, true);

?>

[phprican]

ok some progress but still walking in the dark..

on my stats.php page i added this code

<?php

$homepage = file_get_contents('http://www.website.com/api/v1/users/tom');
echo $homepage;

?>

it displays all stats on page but its all in like a rich text format I only want to display a few things..

[NogDog]

Without knowing what it actually returns, I have no idea what to suggest. If by any chance "like a rich text format" is either XML or JSON, then PHP has tools for that (the SimpleXML extension or json_decode(), for example).

Also, you can look at the site's API documentation (hopefully it has some) and see if there are specific request types/parameters you can use to get exactly what you need.

[sneakyimp]

Yeah my guess is that your json_encode command returns false because the curl request is not returning JSON.

Without knowing more about what kind of code/text is coming back from the API, it's impossible to say.