counts.php

<?php

// JSON releases URL
$json_releases = 'https://api.github.com/repos/LMMS/lmms/releases';

// JSON releeases cache file
$cache_file = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT_HASH'] . '/../tmp/.json_github_releases';

// Use the cache version if it's less than 60 seconds old
if (file_exists($cache_file) && (filemtime($cache_file) > (time() - 60))) {
   $json = file_get_contents($cache_file);
} else {
   $json = file_get_contents_curl($json_releases);
   file_put_contents($cache_file, $json, LOCK_EX);
}

// decode json data
$obj = json_decode($json);

// loop through items and echo
foreach($obj as $item) {
   echo '<h3>LMMS ' . $item->tag_name . '</h3><ul>';
   foreach($item->assets as $asset) {
      echo '<li><a href="' . $asset->browser_download_url . '">' .
        $asset->name . '</a>:&nbsp;';
      echo '(' . $asset->download_count . ')</li>';
   }
   echo '</ul>';
}

// file_get_contents() won't work.  Use curl instead.
function file_get_contents_curl($url) {
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'curl/7.x (linux)');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, TRUE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
    $data = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $data;
}

?>