How to import php file to your controller and gather data - php

Question

My Controller.
public function showMonthlyReport($site_id, $report_id){
$reports = Report::where('report_id', $report_id)->firstOrFail();
$uptime = ???
return view('records', compact('site_id', 'report_id', 'reports', 'uptime'));
}
And my UptimeRobot.php reference https://uptimerobot.com/api getMonitors()method
<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.uptimerobot.com/v2/getMonitors",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "Your Api Key",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
"cache-control: no-cache",
"content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
),
));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
$data = json_decode($response);
$custom_uptime = ($data->monitors[0]->custom_uptime_ratio);
$uptime = explode("-",$custom_uptime);
}
?>
ApiCommand.php
public function handle()
{
include(app_path() . '/Includes/DeepCrawl.php');
include(app_path() . '/Includes/Uptime.php');
include(app_path() . '/Includes/HelloAnalytics.php');
$stringData = ApiCommand::drawGraph($uptime, $dates, $users, $otherResultsRows, $array_issues, $array_pages_breakdown, $array_uncrawled_url, $array_non_200_pages, $array_orphaned_pages, $array_non_indexable_pages, $array_crawl_source_gap, $array_https_http);
Storage::disk('local')->put('hello.txt', $stringData);
}
Currently building a laravel web application.
I am just wondering how can i able to gather data from uptimerobot. I'm going to use my controller so I can pass it to my view but I don't know how. I have code below with the curl php type above. Really confused what am I doing new programmer here. Can someone explain if I'm at the right path or is it possible to do in controller. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I can suggest slightly different solution:
Extract your curl code in a separate console command and run this command each minute (for example, as a cron job).
The result of the command save to database/file/memory.
In your showMonthlyReport() refer to existing result.
Benefits:
In this way you would not have to wait for your curl result on each showMonthlyReport(). All code will run asynchronously
All errors processing will be in one place
Command is testable