Github user score

helpers.php

<?php

public function calculateScore($username)
{
        // Fetch user info from Github API
        $url = 'https://api.github.com/users/'.$username.'/events/public';
        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.98 Safari/537.36');
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
        $data = curl_exec($ch);
        $httpcode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
        curl_close($ch);

        // Simple validation
        if($httpcode != 200) {
            throw new \Exception('User not found');
        }

        // Create Laravel collection from API response
        $userData = collect(json_decode($data));

        // Filter collection to easily get all items by object key and value
        $pushEventCount = $userData->where('type', 'PushEvent')->count();
        $pullRequestEventCount = $userData->where('type', 'PullRequestEvent')->count();
        $issueCommentEventCount = $userData->where('type', 'IssueCommentEvent')->count();

        // Calculations
        $otherEventsCount = $userData->count() - $pushEventCount - $pullRequestEventCount - $issueCommentEventCount;
        $selectedScore = $pushEventCount * 10 + $pullRequestEventCount * 5 + $issueCommentEventCount * 4;
        $totalScore = $otherEventsCount + $selectedScore;

        return $totalScore;
}