steamwidgets-web/app/modules/SteamApp.php

<?php

/**
 * Class SteamAppModel
 * 
 * Responsible for querying Steam game/app data
 */
class SteamApp
{
    const STEAM_ENDPOINT = 'https://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails';

    /**
     * Query item data from Steam
     * 
     * @param $appid
     * @param $lang
     * @return mixed
     * @throws \Exception
     */
    public static function querySteamData($appid, $lang)
    {
        $url = self::STEAM_ENDPOINT . "?appids={$appid}&l={$lang}";

        $handle = curl_init($url);

        curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
        curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);

        $response = curl_exec($handle);

        if(curl_error($handle) !== '') {
            throw new \Exception('cURL error occured');
        }

        curl_close($handle);

        $obj = json_decode($response);
        
        if ((isset($obj->$appid->success)) && ($obj->$appid->success)) {
            $obj->$appid->data->online_count = 0;

            try {
                $obj->$appid->data->online_count = static::queryUserCount($appid);
            } catch (\Exception $e) {
            }

            return $obj->$appid->data;
        }

        throw new \Exception('Invalid data response');
    }

    /**
     * Query Steam product player/user count
     * 
     * @param $appid
     * @return mixed
     * @throws \Exception
     */
    public static function queryUserCount($appid)
    {
        $url = "https://api.steampowered.com/ISteamUserStats/GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers/v1/?appid={$appid}";

        $handle = curl_init($url);

        curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
        curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);

        $response = curl_exec($handle);

        if(curl_error($handle) !== '') {
            throw new \Exception('cURL error occured');
        }

        curl_close($handle);

        $obj = json_decode($response);
        
        if ((isset($obj->response->result)) && ($obj->response->result)) {
            return $obj->response->player_count;
        }

        throw new \Exception('Invalid data response');
    }
}