Display php array api contents - php

Question

I am working with a API. the link shows in the class like this
private $apiPath = "http://www.website.com/api/v1/users/username";
now if the username part is tom and i put it in the browser like so.
private $apiPath = "http://www.website.com/api/v1/users/tom";
it will display all toms stats in text format.
I am trying to figure out how to display it in HTML rendered format
using php so i can display it on my site. I was told its in an array.
so I am assuming using variables i can get it to display what and where I want. I am just really unclear.
I have the class but unsure what to do. do i include it?

Answer 1

This will allow you to grab the username from db and compare
function stats(){
$user_id = $_GET['uid'];
$sql = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE uid = $user_id ";
$result = query($sql);
$row = mysqli_fetch_object($result);
$username = $row->username);
$url = ('"http://www.website.com/api/v1/users/'.$username);
$rCURL = curl_init();
curl_setopt($rCURL, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($rCURL, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($rCURL, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$aData = curl_exec($rCURL);
curl_close($rCURL);
$response = json_decode($aData, true);
}

Answer 2

If you just want the data that the API is returning, that class would tell me that it is returning JSON which is a data interchange format. You could use PHP's cURL function to get the data from the API and then decode it into a PHP array using json_decode and then you could do what you like with the data.
For example:
$apiUrl = "http://www.website.com/api/v1/users/$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);
If you need to use the class as you need to process the data into the form it does, you will need to include the class and use it.
import 'myclass.php';
$userData = new statsProfile('name');
Then you can use the other methods of the class as you need.