How to display stackexchange data on my site? - php

Question

Introduction
I am developing my presentation site and I want to include my Stack Overflow profile info/posts/data (eg top tag, score and so on.)
I found data.stackexchange.com to retrieve the desired data but I can't understand how can I show this data in my site.
In github.com I found this prerequisites: https://github.com/StackExchange/StackExchange.DataExplorer#prerequisites which basically says that I must be a .NET programmer to be able to display this data but I am a PHP programmer, I work with Apache MySQL and PHP.
I know that there are lots of PHP MsSQL functions I can use but how can I connect to the Stack Exchange database (I think as a guest/limited user) with which username-password?
Even if this is not too much on-topic here, where can I find more info on how I can display Stack Overflow data on my site?

Answer 1

I recommend checking out http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/
Something like this should get reputation using the PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser
$html = file_get_html('https://stackoverflow.com/users/5039442/thetaskmaster');
$reputation = $html->find('.reputation', 0)->plaintext;

Answer 2

Even if CONFUS3D' answer is a good solution, any alteration to the User Interface may cause errors in your site.
I suggest you to use the Stack Exchange API set with which you can retrieve the most of data you probably need.
Any API query will return a JSON object. I use this PHP class to retrieve this object:
class ApiReader {
public function getResponse($url) {
$cH = curl_init();
curl_setopt($cH, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($cH, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($cH, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($cH, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($cH, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, cURL);
curl_setopt($cH, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($cH, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "gzip");
$result = curl_exec($cH);
if(curl_errno($cH)) {
$retur = FALSE;
}
else {
$status = curl_getinfo($cH, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if($status == 200) {
$retur = $result;
}
else {
$retur = FALSE;
}
}
curl_close($cH);
return $retur;
}
}
I use this little trick to test the site even if I am off-line.
In your host, save all the JSON objects you need to use, then declare two vars $UInfo_API containing the API query and $UInfo_Syn which gets the content of the saved JSON object
$UInfo_API = "api.stackexchange.com/2.2/users/5039442?site=stackoverflow";
$UInfo_Syn = file_get_contents("yourjsonobject.json");
Then save the result in a variable checking if the getResponse() method has failed or not. After that, you have the data on tap.
$sear = new ApiReader();
$uInfo = $sear->getResponse($UInfo_API);
$uInfo = ($uInfo !== FALSE)? json_decode($uInfo, TRUE): json_decode($UInfo_Syn, TRUE);
$rep = $uInfo["items"][0]["reputation"];