<?php
header('Content-Type: application/json');

$playerName = $_GET['name'] ?? '';

if (empty($playerName)) {
    echo json_encode(['player' => []]);
    exit;
}

$apiKey = '1'; // Free public API key for testing
$url = 'https://www.thesportsdb.com/api/v1/json/' . $apiKey . '/searchplayers.php?p=' . urlencode($playerName);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo $response;