-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] I'm gonna take a random stab and say email this guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] it looks like he designs valves websites.
On 10/31/05, Adam amckern Mckern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > -- - Ben Davison - http://www.shadow-phoenix.com -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
