.cron.example

<?php
    // NOTE: file (.cron) being run at minute basis (e.g. to send JSON results to external platform)

    require_once("html/includes/common.php");

    $teams = getRankedTeams();
    $previous = -1;
    $place = 0;

    $result = array();
    foreach ($teams as $team_id) {
        $row = fetchAll("SELECT * FROM teams WHERE team_id=:team_id", array("team_id" => $team_id))[0];
        $scores = getScores($team_id);

        if ($scores["cash"] !== $previous) {
            $place += 1;
            $previous = $scores["cash"];
        }

        $_ = array("name" => $row["full_name"], "code" => $row["country_code"], "country" => array_key_exists($row["country_code"], COUNTRIES) ? COUNTRIES[$row["country_code"]] : "", "score" => $scores["cash"], "place" => $place);
        array_push($result, $_);
    }

    $result = array_filter($result, function($value) {
        return !(($value["score"] === 0) && is_null($value["country"]));
    });

    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "example.com");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-Type:application/json"));
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($result));
    curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
?>