Where to start with creating a mod.

[Michael Mulqueen]

Ok I am new to modding soldat but I have experience in Visual Basic, Python and PHP. I would like to know how mods can communicate with Soldat and how you integrate them. If I have got mods and plug ins mixed up then tell me but could you point me in the right direction. Basically I would like make something that pings a php script every 15 mins while my soldat server is running.

[FliesLikeABrick]

You've got mods and plugins mixed up.  If you elaborate on what you want to do, I'll move this to the right section and I can probably help you out

[Michael Mulqueen]

Ok basically, I want to be able to "ping" or cause a script at myurl.com/pagetoping.php every 5 minutes so people can check the status of my soldat server directly from my website. If I knew how the Soldat lobby servers worked then maybe I could adapt that but I haven't been able to find any docs on them. Basically though I need to be able to get the Soldat server only to run a program every few minutes to show that it is still running.

[FliesLikeABrick]

try taking a look at the code inside of the status window for U13SSS, my php server scripts.  download it at http://u13.net/go.php?id=1

this is the code used at http://u13.net in the left sidebar.

Alternately, if you don't have local/http/ftp access to the logs, look at: the PHP REFRESH packet parser code