Mr. Rodriguez (Star Ship Troppers?) Anyway, very good idea, and if i knew more of PHP, then i would love to give you a hand. However my skills fall short of PHPBB CMS's.
The steam stats page is powerful, but maybe if you can find the right person at valve, you might be able to contract yourself, and review, and upgrade the stats page for them, with your PHP script. Adam --- Jorge Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've hacked together a small PHP script that scrapes > http://steampowered.com/status/game_stats.html and > stores the data into > a mysql database. I'm currently using it to track > the number of people > playing TS http://www.vinoisnotouzo.com/steam.php so > that I can see how > it does over a period of time. That page only shows > TS data, but data > for all the other mods is stored as well. For > example, you can see a > cool work in progress graph > http://vinoisnotouzo.com/mikegraph.php that > displays player time for all the mods since I > started tracking this morning. > > I think it would be really cool if this were > developed into a more > robust and useful website where people could input > values into a form > and click links to display the information in > different ways. For > example, if the user could choose how far back he > wants to view or > select individual mods to view details of. However, > I don't have the > time to do any more then this simple hack, and I > don't want to put more > effort into it if the Steam website could change at > any time and break > the script. > > My question to Eric is: Are there any plans to do > what I'm doing in the > Steam website itself? If no, is there any way that > the information on > the Steam stats page can be standardized in XML > format so that I don't > have to worry about the website changing and > breaking my script? > > My question to the list is: Is there any proficient > PHP hacker willing > to take this yolk up and finish the job? If someone > does all the > brutework I can support and maintain it, but I > simply don't have the > time to do any more involved development. It's for > the good of the > community! > > -- > Jorge "Vino" Rodriguez > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view > the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > -------- My Website http://www.ammahls.com Lead Programer NightFall http://www.nightfallmod.net/ Developer of CST and ZHLT 3.0 http://www.zhlt.tk This email has been sent from Adam McKern, and is not one of the many spam bots that use my email address. If you receive an email that has not got this signature line, please delate the email, and not respond in any way to it. __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
