ASE Soldat Lobby

[Frenchie]

Hey,
I didn't like the way game-monitor doesn't have a working players list, so I decided to put together a script.
I have had it for quite a while, but having lots of issues with old webhost and how they don't know **** about cron jobs. So I finally got it going with my new freehost.

It's functions are Extremely basic, basically every 6 hours parse soldat lobbies, add ip's to database, then retrieve info from servers every 15 - 30mins depending on activity on server. Theres a few more little things it does, like how it deletes inactive servers after a while and how it can be used as a backup lobby as it won't delete any servers IF both lobbies are down.

Things I Want To Add
A Filter to Searches
And also hoping to get a geoIP database running, so it can tell you in which country the server is being hosted.
And ability to refresh specific server.

http://www.tumler.bendaweb.com/lobby/
Hope it helps someone

^^Old Post^^

Proud to present the ASE Soldat Lobby

A site which allows you to view server information by:

• Mode
• Players
• Country
• Details (Bonus, Realistic, Nextmap, Time Left)

ASE Soldat Lobby

Sort by Gamemode (CTF,HTF,INF... etc)
http://www.tumler.bendaweb.com/lobby/mode/CTF/  --Shows all CTF servers

Sort by Country (Lots of em....)
http://www.tumler.bendaweb.com/lobby/country/au/  --Shows all aussie servers

Can add both
http://www.tumler.bendaweb.com/lobby/?country=us&mode=ctf  --Show all american CTF servers

Can Search for servers & player names, realistic & advance modes

--------Stats
Overall Stats
http://www.tumler.namepad.net/lobby/stats/
Consist of:

• http://www.tumler.bendaweb.com/lobby/stats/maps/
• http://www.tumler.bendaweb.com/lobby/stats/modes/

[FliesLikeABrick]

Very nice.  I was hoping to work on a project like this before I saw game-monitor, and I also was discouraged by the fact that they're doing something wrong in their parsing of the ASE packet with player info.

One thing I would suggest is making use of the GD2 library for php so that you can make graphs of server activity, hopefully better than the crap that Game-Monitor has.

[EnEsCe]

very nice, but please for the love of god, change the template!

[Frenchie]

Thanks,

Flies: Yeah I will look into gd2
Enesce: I will also look into getting a new template

I won't be able to do any work on it over the weekend but I'll start when I'm back.

[Clawbug]

Very nice work!

New template would rock, but the current one is not THAT horrible.

[Leo]

It timesout on me!

[jrgp]

It timesout on me!

Same here.

[Toumaz]

It has been working earlier for me, but now it's timeouting on me as well.

[EnEsCe]

Working fine for me...

[Clawbug]

Seems to be up again. Only problem is that the list is 100% empty atm.

[Frenchie]

Back, I might do some more work on it tomorrow

Update-
Got Country Flags Up

Seems to be up again. Only problem is that the list is 100% empty atm.

Wow thats unlucky LOL, I just emptied the list to get the script to load the flags.

[EnEsCe]

Lookin' good. Maybe add some search filters, player search and such then it will be uber 1337.

[m00`]

mabe make it possible to sort the list by name, players etc?

[Frenchie]

Lookin' good. Maybe add some search filters, player search and such then it will be uber 1337.

mabe make it possible to sort the list by name, players etc?

Yeah, I will try to get some of that in today, btw player search has been in it ever since it has been online

--Edit
-There was a bug in the update script with not being able to recognise servers with survival on - fixed
-Added filters, (realistic/survival & gamemodes)
-Ability to click flags (shows servers in specific country)

[Toumaz]

Whoa, getting nice already! But...

Maybe add some search filters, player search and such then it will be uber 1337.

[Frenchie]

Whoa, getting nice already! But...

Maybe add some search filters, player search and such then it will be uber 1337.

Thanks,
but I don't quite understand what kind of search filters do you guys want, theres already player search, realistic/survival and gamemode searching

[EnEsCe]

IP/Server name search is what I most commonly use.

EDIT: On the <img> tags you are using for the flags, add "border=0"

[Frenchie]

IP/Server name search is what I most commonly use.

EDIT: On the <img> tags you are using for the flags, add "border=0"

Mmm... might add ip searching.

Yeah I didn't realise those flags had a border on it till I got on internet explorer, I let css take care of that.

-Fixed online server page (before it was showing many more offline servers in the list, and now doesn't show servers with no name)
-Fixed searching, only searches online servers now
-Fixed time showing last update of server
-Updates more regular (10 - 15 mins if atleast quarter full, or 25 mins for everything else)

[FliesLikeABrick]

The page would look a ton better if the background of the page was not white.  I would suggest a color slightly darker than the rollover color for the list

also: the page for each server should have everything centered, not just the top box
- there should be a clickable join link in the main list and on each server page

[Frenchie]

I worked on it a bit today

-Fixed/cleaned lots of code
-Fixed lobby parser script
-Made better template (based alot off how konqueror was viewing site, including form, font, table colour and fixed centering problems)
-Can now join server (in server list click the number of server, if in server details click the name of it.)

looks good in Konqueror, Firefox & IE

-Wanting to add a script which will remove the number of bots from player count, as atm theres zombie servers at the top of the list.

Date Posted: September 19, 2006, 11:28:51 AM

One thing I would suggest is making use of the GD2 library for php so that you can make graphs of server activity, hopefully better than the crap that Game-Monitor has.

I'm just wondering Flies how could I make it better?
Would I keep it as a line graph/or make bar graph?

mmm... cant think of anything else a graph would need to do (besides show server usage)