Code not working - See who's online - PHP JSON

[ping_paul]

Not sure why, but I grabbed this code from another thread which is now close and it doesn’t matter with which accounts (even live ones) they all appear as offline. I just copy/paste straight into PHP, please help.

Is there something else that needs to be done in order to work properly?

$live = array();
$channels = array("themittanidotcom", "djyumene", "mym_alkapone", "Rightrevgoldstein", "daopa", "streamerhouse", "cabochardlol", "moanygamer", "bajheera", "lelaaone", "Old_Bearded_Gamer");

// This part does stuff ... and things! No touchie!
$streamData = json_decode(@file_get_contents("https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams?channel=".implode(",",$channels)), true);

foreach ($channels as $name) { 
    $live[$name] = null; 
}

foreach ($streamData["streams"] as $stream)  {
    $live[$chdata["channel"]["name"]] = $stream;        
}
    foreach ($live as $name => $stream) {
                if($stream != null){
                        $game =         $stream['channel']['game'];
                        $logo =         $stream['channel']['logo'];
                        $viewers =         $stream['viewers'];
                echo "<p><img src='$logo' height='45' width='45' style='float:left;'><a href='http://twitch.tv/$name/embed' target='tbox'><font style='font-size: 1rem;line-height: 1.4;white-space: nowrap;font-weight: 700;color: #B9A3E3;text-decoration: none;font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif;'>$name</font></a><br><font style='font-size: 0.75rem;line-height: 1;white-space: nowrap;font-weight: 700;color: #3366FF;text-decoration: none;font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif;'>Playing: <img src='online.png' height='7' width='7'> $game<br>Viewers: $viewers</font></p>";
                } else{
                echo "<p><img src='$logo' height='45' width='45' style='float:left;'><a href='http://twitch.tv/$name/embed' target='tbox'><font style='font-size: 1rem;line-height: 1.4;white-space: nowrap;font-weight: 700;color: #B9A3E3;text-decoration: none;font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif;'>$name</font></a><br><font style='font-size: 0.75rem;line-height: 1;white-space: nowrap;font-weight: 700;color: #3366FF;text-decoration: none;font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif;'>Playing: <img src='offline.png' height='7' width='7'> Offline<br><br></font></p>";
                    }
    }

[george]

That code works for me:

Is file_get_contents returning anything? Many times hosting providers disable remote URLs for this function for security. Personally I’d recommend looking into using cURL for that purpose.

[ping_paul]

but the weird thing is that this code below works to check if someone is online… Is there a way to grab their name and game they are playing with the function below? All I want to output is something like “[name] is playing [game]”

function is_channel_live( $channel )
{
	
    $request = json_decode( @file_get_contents( 'https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/' . $channel ) );
    return ( ! is_null( $request->stream ) ) ? TRUE : FALSE;
	
}

[BarryCarlyon]

Don’t use file_get_contents for HTTP urls it is a HUGE SECURITY RISK.

A LOT of hosts will drop this attempt (often silently)

Please use cURL instead.

$ch = curl_init('https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/' . $channel );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$r = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$request = json_decode($r);

That is quick and nasty but will get you going.