PHP Function with API How Many Requests?

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Solution:

Pass an array storing something like [ ["type" => $type, "day" => $day] ] instead of calling the function 5 times, since you request the same URL each time, so you can loop over that array

In example :

// Get an array as parameter
//                    |
//                    V
function apiReq($TypesAndDays){

    $url2 = "http://api.example.com/../.../../";

    $str2 = file_get_contents($url2);

    $decode_two = json_decode($str2, TRUE);

    // Loop over that array
    foreach ($TypesAndDays as $TypeAndDay)
    {
        // set $type and $day
        $type = $TypeAndDay['type'];
        $day = $TypeAndDay['day'];

        // the rest of your code remains unchanged
        foreach($decode_two['teams'][$type][$day] as $item ) {
            if (isset($item['name']['initial'])) {
                echo $item['name']['initial'];
            }
            echo $item['name']['surname'];
            echo $item['shirt'];
            echo '</br>';
        }
    }
}

$TypesAndDays = [
    [ 'type' => 'A', 'day' => 'Monday' ],
    [ 'type' => 'B', 'day' => 'Tuesday' ],
    [ 'type' => 'C', 'day' => 'Monday' ],
    [ 'type' => 'D', 'day' => 'Tuesday' ],
    [ 'type' => 'F', 'day' => 'Friday' ]
];

apiReq($TypesAndDays);