Ok, this thread is getting a little unwieldy, I've read most of it to produce
our stats page but must admin to getting distracted a couple of hunderd times while trawling through.
I have three requests of the people here who know more than I about these things (that's most of you then).
1, I would like to integrate the results of the stats into the rest of the site (forum, member pages etc). I know how I would do this (kinda) if I had the data on one of the MySQL db tables but don't know how to get it there from this feed. It seems like it should be fairly easy but please remember I'm fighting against the enormous drag factor imposed by my intelect. Anyone able to point me in the right direction?
2, I would like to show online/offline staus on the list and elsewhere. Now before you click reply and tell me to go to game-monitor.com... I have. I've ponyed up the dough and have a buddy list. What I don't know how to do is get that nicely integrated with my site so that I can have perdy iccle lights next to player stats or membership records. Again, I would quite like to dump the data into a db table so I can do whatever the hell I please with it but dunno how. If that aint possible then I at least wanna be able to run it in the appropriate rows of the player stats. Anyone?
3, I have a membership table which is linked to the forum, it gives me extra info about our members and recruits and helps drive recruitment and promotions. It also holds member and recruit PIDs. The list of PIDs in this table is the same one I want to be used with the stats feed and buddy list, the table gets updated automatically when a member is recruited or promoted and it would be enormously more efficient if I could let the stats feed and buddy list update from this without further intevention on my part. Do you have an idea how to do it?
One little last one, far to minor to be on the list: If I reach and breach the 64 PID limit am I stuffed or is there a way to get more on the list (chuy, if I have this many members you can have a cut of the subs
)
Thanks for at least reading this far. I hope someone replies before this page gets lost in the obscurity of 400 other posts.