Can someone help me make a Halo 2 stat picture? The stats are at http://www.bungie.net/Stats/PlayerStats.aspx?player=guyguyme2003 .
I would like to have it look like http://guillaumelforum.theglassprison.net/halo2/s...rName=guyguyme2003 and I would like to see the clan stats too (link is on my stats page... take it from there, as it will change)

Thanks!

Link of the day: http://php.net/image

Look at a basic function that you're likely to need such as imagecreate() and there are loads of examples that branch out to help you do what you want to do.

Failing that plenty of tutorials exist.  I suggest webmonkey

after you can create an image with php + write text on it you will need to download the site you wish to parse into a varible a common (and semi good) way to do it is like

code:

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<?
$handle = fopen("http://www.bungie.net/Stats/PlayerStats.aspx?player=guyguyme2003", "rb");
$contents = '';
while (!feof($handle)) {
  $contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);


?>

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Man! I suck! I cant get the image to work... all i see is a blank page!

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Originally posted by Guillaume
Man! I suck! I cant get the image to work... all i see is a blank page!

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I put

code:

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<?php
header("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @imagecreate(100, 50)
   or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
$background_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 233, 14, 91);
imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5,  "This will soon be replaced with something else.", $text_color);
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>

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* WDZ saves the file on his local server and tries it

It works. The text is cut off because of the small image width, but other than that, it's fine.

Are you trying it on a server that supports PHP & GD and doesn't have any dodgy stuff like forced advertisements?

i duno if GD is there...
EDIT: For some reason, PHP doesn't work anymore.

Hmm... well, you should move the header() line so it's right above the imagepng() line. If the script is outputting any text error messages, the browser might not display them because it's expecting a PNG image. Just for clarity, here's the modified code:

code:

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<?php
$im = @imagecreate(100, 50)
   or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
$background_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 233, 14, 91);
imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5,  "This will soon be replaced with something else.", $text_color);
header("Content-type: image/png");
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>

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quote:

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Originally posted by WDZ
Hmm... well, you should move the header() line so it's right above the imagepng() line. If the script is outputting any text error messages, the browser might not display them because it's expecting a PNG image. Just for clarity, here's the modified code:

code:

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<?php
$im = @imagecreate(100, 50)
   or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
$background_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 233, 14, 91);
imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5,  "This will soon be replaced with something else.", $text_color);
header("Content-type: image/png");
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>

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I have just realized that my files were blank... due to the fact that i was out of space it now works I have this :

I am trying to take out a part of the cache txt i have.

its too hard... i need something like XML

Is it possible to just take a picture (like 5 secs after object is loaded) of a swf object?

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Originally posted by Guillaume
its too hard... i need something like XML

Is it possible to just take a picture (like 5 secs after object is loaded) of a swf object?

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code:

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<?
$handle = fopen("http://www.bungie.net/Stats/PlayerStats.aspx?player=guyguyme2003", "rb");
$contents = '';
while (!feof($handle)) {
  $contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);



$match = InsideTags('<div class="ExpBar" style="width:50"><div class="ExpBarText" style="left:20">','</div></div>',$contents); // uses a regular expression and gets the stuff inbetween those two points and returns it


foreach ($match[1] as $stat){  //just echo's all your stats
echo "$stat <br>";
}
   

function InsideTags($tag1,$tag2,$html){ //function to grab text inbetween two points
$tag2 = str_replace('/', "\/" ,$tag2);
preg_match_all("/$tag1(.*)$tag2/i", $html, $match);
return $match;
}
?>

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code:

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<div class="ExpBar" style="width:50"><div class="ExpBarText" style="left:20">3</div></div>

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code:

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<div class="ExpBar" style="width:50"><div class="ExpBarText" style="left:20">

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code:

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</div></div>

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code:

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I dont know if I understood fully, but I tried

code:

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<?
$handle = fopen("http://www.bungie.net/Stats/PlayerStats.aspx?player=guyguyme2003", "rb");
$contents = '';
while (!feof($handle)) {
  $contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);



$match = InsideTags('<div class="ExpBar" style="width:50"><div class="ExpBarText" style="left:20">','</div></div>',$contents); // uses a regular expression and gets the stuff inbetween those two points and returns it


foreach ($match[1] as $stat){  //just echo's all your stats
echo "$stat <br>";
}


function InsideTags($tag1,$tag2,$html){ //function to grab text inbetween two points
$tag2 = str_replace('/', "\/" ,$tag2);
preg_match_all("/$tag1(.*)$tag2/i", $html, $match);
return $match;
}


header("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @imagecreate(100, 200)
or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
$background_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5, $match[1] , $text_color);
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);

?>

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Well, to remove that code that echoes your stats (useless if you want an image output) and also rename the variables so they're easier to understand, delete this code...

code:

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foreach ($match[1] as $stat){  //just echo's all your stats
echo "$stat <br>";
}

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code:

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$rumble_pit = $match[1][0];
$team_skirmish = $match[1][1];
$head_to_head = $match[1][2];
$big_team_battle = $match[1][3];
$team_slayer = $match[1][4];

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quote:

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Originally posted by Guillaume
I dont know if I understood fully, but I tried

code:

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<?
....

header("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @imagecreate(100, 200)
or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
$background_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5, $match[1] , $text_color);
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);

?>

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and got


PS: that was to see if i could make it work.

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code:

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$match[1][X]

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code:

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echo $match[1][0];

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code:

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echo $match[1][1];

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code:

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<?
$handle = fopen("http://www.bungie.net/Stats/PlayerStats.aspx?player=guyguyme2003", "rb");
$contents = '';
while (!feof($handle)) {
  $contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);



$match = InsideTags('<div class="ExpBar" style="width:50"><div class="ExpBarText" style="left:20">','</div></div>',$contents); // uses a regular expression and gets the stuff inbetween those two points and returns it


foreach ($match[1] as $stat){  //just echo's all your stats
echo "$stat <br>";
}




$text = array("Stats for map X = $match[1][0]","Stats for map X = $match[1][1]","Stats for map X = $match[1][2]","Stats for map X = $match[1][3]","Stats for map X = $match[1][3]");


header("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @imagecreate(100, 200)
or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
$background_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
$line = 5;

foreach ($text as $string){
imagestring($im, 1, 5, $line, $string , $text_color);

$line = $line +10; //makes sure text dosnt overlap so each thing in array $text is on a new line adjust this as you need
}


imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);

function InsideTags($tag1,$tag2,$html){ //function to grab text inbetween two points
$tag2 = str_replace('/', "\/" ,$tag2);
preg_match_all("/$tag1(.*)$tag2/i", $html, $match);
return $match;
}
?>

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-dt-, I tried your script and I got:

quote:

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Originally posted by php error
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Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/theglas/public_html/guillaumelforum/halo2/index2.php:14) in /home/theglas/public_html/guillaumelforum/halo2/index2.php on line 22
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quote:

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Originally posted by Guillaume

And WDZ, How do you add line breaks between strings?

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quote:

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Originally posted by PHP error
Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/theglas/public_html/guillaumelforum/halo2/index.php on line 33

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/theglas/public_html/guillaumelforum/halo2/index.php on line 33

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code:

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<?
$handle = fopen("http://www.bungie.net/Stats/PlayerStats.aspx?player=guyguyme2003", "rb");
$contents = '';
while (!feof($handle)) {
$contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);



$match = InsideTags('<div class="ExpBar" style="width:50"><div class="ExpBarText" style="left:20">','</div></div>',$contents); // uses a regular expression and gets the stuff inbetween those two points and returns it


$rumble_pit = $match[1][0];
$team_skirmish = $match[1][1];
$head_to_head = $match[1][2];
$big_team_battle = $match[1][3];
$team_slayer = $match[1][4];


function InsideTags($tag1,$tag2,$html){ //function to grab text inbetween two points
$tag2 = str_replace('/', "\/" ,$tag2);
preg_match_all("/$tag1(.*)$tag2/i", $html, $match);
return $match;
}


header("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @imagecreate(100, 200)
or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
$background_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5, $rumble_pit \n $team_skirmish , $text_color);

imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);

?>

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Originally posted by Guillaume
-dt-, I tried your script and I got:

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quote:

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Originally posted by Guillaume
And WDZ, How do you add line breaks between strings?

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quote:

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Originally posted by Guillaume
Did I do something wrong?

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code:

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$line = 5;
imagestring($im, 1, 5, $line, $rumble_pit, $text_color);
$line = $line + 10;
imagestring($im, 1, 5, $line, $team_skirmish, $text_color);

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code:

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$line = 5;
imagestring($im, 1, 5, $line, "Rumble pit: $rumble_pit", $text_color);
$line = $line + 10;
imagestring($im, 1, 5, $line, "Team skirmish: $team_skirmish", $text_color);

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code:

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Rumble pit: 1
Team skirmish: 5

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Sweet! I have numbers!
ill just make a background and align the numbers.

:/

code:

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<?
$handle = fopen("http://www.bungie.net/Stats/PlayerStats.aspx?player=guyguyme2003", "rb");
$contents = '';
while (!feof($handle)) {
$contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);



$match = InsideTags('<div class="ExpBar" style="width:50"><div class="ExpBarText" style="left:20">','</div></div>',$contents); // uses a regular expression and gets the stuff inbetween those two points and returns it


$rumble_pit = $match[1][0];
$team_skirmish = $match[1][1];
$head_to_head = $match[1][2];
$big_team_battle = $match[1][3];
$team_slayer = $match[1][4];


function InsideTags($tag1,$tag2,$html){ //function to grab text inbetween two points
$tag2 = str_replace('/', "\/" ,$tag2);
preg_match_all("/$tag1(.*)$tag2/i", $html, $match);
return $match;
}


header("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @imagecreatefrompng("http://guillaumelforum.theglassprison.net/Halo%202%20Stats_files/stats1.png");
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
$line = 10;
imagestring($im, 12, 5, $line, $rumble_pit, $text_color);
$line = $line + 15;
imagestring($im, 12, 5, $line, $team_skirmish, $text_color);
$line = $line + 15;
imagestring($im, 12, 5, $line, $head_to_head, $text_color);
$line = $line + 15;
imagestring($im, 12, 5, $line, $big_team_battle, $text_color);
$line = $line + 15;
imagestring($im, 12, 5, $line, $team_slayer, $text_color);

imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);

?>

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Originally posted by Error
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<b>Warning</b>:  imagecolorallocate(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in <b>/home/theglas/public_html/guillaumelforum/halo2/index.php</b> on line <b>30</b><br />
<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  imagestring(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in <b>/home/theglas/public_html/guillaumelforum/halo2/index.php</b> on line <b>32</b><br />
<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  imagestring(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in <b>/home/theglas/public_html/guillaumelforum/halo2/index.php</b> on line <b>34</b><br />
<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  imagestring(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in <b>/home/theglas/public_html/guillaumelforum/halo2/index.php</b> on line <b>36</b><br />
<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  imagestring(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in <b>/home/theglas/public_html/guillaumelforum/halo2/index.php</b> on line <b>38</b><br />
<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  imagestring(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in <b>/home/theglas/public_html/guillaumelforum/halo2/index.php</b> on line <b>40</b><br />
<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  imagepng(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in <b>/home/theglas/public_html/guillaumelforum/halo2/index.php</b> on line <b>42</b><br />
<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  imagedestroy(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in <b>/home/theglas/public_html/guillaumelforum/halo2/index.php</b> on line <b>43</b><br />

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Well, the URL http://guillaumelforum.theglassprison.net/Halo%20...s_files/stats1.png doesn't work for me, and it's not necessary to use a URL anyway. You should have the image on the same server as the script and use a relative path, such as "Halo 2 Stats_files/stats1.png" or just "stats1.png" if the image and script are in the same folder.

oops.. wrong url... wrong format... :* http://guillaumelforum.theglassprison.net/halo2/H...s_files/stats1.jpg

Why wont this work?

code:

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<?
$handle = fopen("http://www.bungie.net/Stats/PlayerStats.aspx?player=guyguyme2003", "rb");
$contents = '';
while (!feof($handle)) {
$contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);



$match = InsideTags('<div class="ExpBar" style="width:50"><div class="ExpBarText" style="left:20">','</div></div>',$contents); // uses a regular expression and gets the stuff inbetween those two points and returns it


$rumble_pit = $match[1][0];
$team_skirmish = $match[1][1];
$head_to_head = $match[1][2];
$big_team_battle = $match[1][3];
$team_slayer = $match[1][4];


function InsideTags($tag1,$tag2,$html){ //function to grab text inbetween two points
$tag2 = str_replace('/', "\/" ,$tag2);
preg_match_all("/$tag1(.*)$tag2/i", $html, $match);
return $match;
}


header("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @imagecreatefromjpg("http://guillaumelforum.theglassprison.net/halo2/Halo%202%20Stats_files/stats1.jpg");
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
$line = 10;
imagestring($im, 12, 5, $line, $rumble_pit, $text_color);
$line = $line + 15;
imagestring($im, 12, 5, $line, $team_skirmish, $text_color);
$line = $line + 15;
imagestring($im, 12, 5, $line, $head_to_head, $text_color);
$line = $line + 15;
imagestring($im, 12, 5, $line, $big_team_battle, $text_color);
$line = $line + 15;
imagestring($im, 12, 5, $line, $team_slayer, $text_color);

imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);

?>

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imagecreatefromjpg should be imagecreatefromjpeg (add an e)

Also, your text color should be white (255,255,255) instead of black since your background is dark.

The script works fine for me after those 2 changes. Needs some tweaking, but at least it's working...

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Originally posted by WDZ
imagecreatefromjpg should be imagecreatefromjpeg (add an e)

Also, your text color should be white (255,255,255) instead of black since your background is dark.

The script works fine for me after those 2 changes. Needs some tweaking, but at least it's working...

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using

code:

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<?
$handle = fopen("http://www.bungie.net/Stats/PlayerStats.aspx?player=guyguyme2003", "rb");
$contents = '';
while (!feof($handle)) {
$contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);



$match = InsideTags('<div class="ExpBar" style="width:50"><div class="ExpBarText" style="left:20">','</div></div>',$contents); // uses a regular expression and gets the stuff inbetween those two points and returns it


$rumble_pit = $match[1][0];
$team_skirmish = $match[1][1];
$head_to_head = $match[1][2];
$big_team_battle = $match[1][3];
$team_slayer = $match[1][4];


function InsideTags($tag1,$tag2,$html){ //function to grab text inbetween two points
$tag2 = str_replace('/', "\/" ,$tag2);
preg_match_all("/$tag1(.*)$tag2/i", $html, $match);
return $match;
}


header("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @imagecreatefromjpeg("http://guillaumelforum.theglassprison.net/halo2/Halo%202%20Stats_files/statsforimg.jpg");
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$line = 42;
imagestring($im, 1, 102, $line, $rumble_pit, $text_color);
$line = $line + 10;
imagestring($im, 1, 102, $line, $team_skirmish, $text_color);
$line = $line + 10;
imagestring($im, 1, 102, $line, $head_to_head, $text_color);
$line = $line + 10;
imagestring($im, 1, 102, $line, $big_team_battle, $text_color);
$line = $line + 10;
imagestring($im, 1, 102, $line, $team_slayer, $text_color);
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);

?>

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Hmm... it looks like the stats page on bungie.net has changed...

"Head To Head - No Games Played" messes up the script. That sucks...

I don't see an easy way to fix the problem... the script would require some changes, and I don't have time to help with that right now.

quote:

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Originally posted by WDZ
Hmm... it looks like the stats page on bungie.net has changed...

"Head To Head - No Games Played" messes up the script. That sucks...

I don't see an easy way to fix the problem... the script would require some changes, and I don't have time to help with that right now.

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I found a way to put the values at the right place... instead of $line, I put the real value.

quote:

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Originally posted by Guillaume

code:

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<?
$handle = fopen("http://www.bungie.net/Stats/PlayerStats.aspx?player=guyguyme2003", "rb");
$contents = '';
while (!feof($handle)) {
$contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);



$match = InsideTags('<div class="ExpBar" style="width:50"><div class="ExpBarText" style="left:20">','</div></div>',$contents); // uses a regular expression and gets the stuff inbetween those two points and returns it


$rumble_pit = $match[1][0];
$team_skirmish = $match[1][1];
$head_to_head = $match[1][2];
$big_team_battle = $match[1][3];
$team_slayer = $match[1][4];


function InsideTags($tag1,$tag2,$html){ //function to grab text inbetween two points
$tag2 = str_replace('/', "\/" ,$tag2);
preg_match_all("/$tag1(.*)$tag2/i", $html, $match);
return $match;
}


header("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @imagecreatefromjpeg("http://guillaumelforum.theglassprison.net/halo2/Halo%202%20Stats_files/statsforimg.jpg");
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$line = 42;
imagestring($im, 1, 102, $line, $rumble_pit, $text_color);
$line = $line + 10;
imagestring($im, 1, 102, $line, $team_skirmish, $text_color);
$line = $line + 10;
imagestring($im, 1, 102, $line, $head_to_head, $text_color);
$line = $line + 10;
imagestring($im, 1, 102, $line, $big_team_battle, $text_color);
$line = $line + 10;
imagestring($im, 1, 102, $line, $team_slayer, $text_color);
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);

?>

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Originally posted by -dt-

quote:

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Originally posted by Guillaume

code:

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<?
$handle = fopen("http://www.bungie.net/Stats/PlayerStats.aspx?player=guyguyme2003", "rb");
$contents = '';
while (!feof($handle)) {
$contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);



$match = InsideTags('<div class="ExpBar" style="width:50"><div class="ExpBarText" style="left:20">','</div></div>',$contents); // uses a regular expression and gets the stuff inbetween those two points and returns it


$rumble_pit = $match[1][0];
$team_skirmish = $match[1][1];
$head_to_head = $match[1][2];
$big_team_battle = $match[1][3];
$team_slayer = $match[1][4];


function InsideTags($tag1,$tag2,$html){ //function to grab text inbetween two points
$tag2 = str_replace('/', "\/" ,$tag2);
preg_match_all("/$tag1(.*)$tag2/i", $html, $match);
return $match;
}


header("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @imagecreatefromjpeg("http://guillaumelforum.theglassprison.net/halo2/Halo%202%20Stats_files/statsforimg.jpg");
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$line = 42;
imagestring($im, 1, 102, $line, $rumble_pit, $text_color);
$line = $line + 10;
imagestring($im, 1, 102, $line, $team_skirmish, $text_color);
$line = $line + 10;
imagestring($im, 1, 102, $line, $head_to_head, $text_color);
$line = $line + 10;
imagestring($im, 1, 102, $line, $big_team_battle, $text_color);
$line = $line + 10;
imagestring($im, 1, 102, $line, $team_slayer, $text_color);
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);

?>

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err is that still how to script works? is there no caching? you know everytime that script is loaded it downloads the whole stats page ?

you need to set up a caching system how i would do it is check if the cache exists then if it does i would check the  current time (time() ) agiesnt the file time of the cache file ( filemtime($cache) )
if the cache is past 30min or so (the time() produces funky unix time use something like $blah = time() -  filemtime($cache); to get seconds scince last update )

then if its like 30min past last update download the stats again and write it to a file (use fwrite) .

If its not 30min past use fread to read the cache file then load it into your script and use that for stats insted.


post if you dont quite get me and ill post some sample code but look up some of the terms i used like fwrite and search it on http://php.net

but atleast try to make some of the code
or post here for help

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Allright! I got a good one!