how can i speed this up

[far2slow]

this works but it takes way to long to get the screen scrap data from xboxapi for each user is there a better way of doing this?

 

		foreach ($group['members'] as $pos => $data)
				{
					foreach ($data as $member)
					{
						 $gamertag =  $member['gamername'];
              $url = "http://www.oldgamerz.co.uk/xboxapi/xboxapi.php?gamertag=".urlencode($gamertag);
              $output = file_get_contents($url);
              $json = json_decode(utf8_encode($output), true);
			$xboxonline = $json['response'][0]['user']['is_online'];
		  $xboxonline_status = $json['response'][0]['user']['online_status'];			

						echo '
					<tr class="windowbg2">
						<td align="center">';
						echo '
						</td>
						<td  align="left" style="padding: 0mm">
							<div align="left" style="padding-left: 20px;">
								<img src="', $member['online']['image_href'], '" alt="', $member['online']['link'], '" /> <span class="smalltext">', $member['link'], ' ' ;
if ($xboxonline == "0")
echo '<span style="color: red">Off line</span>';
else echo '<span style="color: green">Online</span>';
echo ' ', $xboxonline_status; echo'</span><br />';

[teynon]

Your loading another page every time you show something:

 

$url = "http://www.oldgamerz.co.uk/xboxapi/xboxapi.php?gamertag=".urlencode($gamertag);

$output = file_get_contents($url);

 

If it is a local url, you should request it locally via include or a function. Otherwise, your best bet is to cache the data on your server and update it only when it's old. It will take longer the first time and then after that, it should go faster depending on when the last time it was updated.

[far2slow]

that makes sence

but once i have done the include ("$sourcedir/xboxapi.php"); how do i get it to run ?gamertag=".urlencode($gamertag); for each user

[dcro2]

Maybe you can make whatever's in that file into a function instead, then you can call something like xboxapi_get($gamertag);. Use $gamertag in your code instead of $_GET['gamertag'].