-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] I've just started learning PHP and I am eager to get stuck in and practice programming. I am experienced programmer in Java and C/C++ so I believe I'll be able to adapt quickly, and I'm sure I'll be able to contribute to such a project.
Dan On 01/11/05, 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 > > -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
