Gets the latest release (includes pre-releases) name (based on Tag names) of a Github-hosted repository

get_latest_release_name.php

<?php
/**
 * Parse the owner's name and the name of the repository (works only with github)
 *
 * @param string $repo_url the repositery url
 * @return array [1] : the owner's name [2] : the repo name
 */
function parse_repo_name(string $repo_url)
{
    $pattern = '/^https?:\/\/(?:www.)?github\.com\/(.*)\/(.*)/';
    preg_match($pattern, $repo_url, $matches);

    return $matches;
}

/**
 * Gets the name of the latest's release tag
 *
 * @param string $github_repo_link
 * @return string the latest release name, including pre-releases
 */
function get_latest_version(string $github_repo_link)
{
    $github_infos = parse_repo_name($github_repo_link);
    $get_options = [
        'http' => [
            'method' => 'GET',
            'header' => [
                'User-Agent: getting-releases (made by Gabyfle)'
            ]
        ]
    ];
    $context = stream_context_create($get_options);
    $apiRepositoryUrl = 'https://api.github.com/repos/' . $github_infos[1] . '/' . $github_infos[2] . '/releases';
    $json = file_get_contents($apiRepositoryUrl, false, $context);
    $content = json_decode($json, true);

    $releaseName = $content[0]['name'];

    return $releaseName;
}