Query protocol

On port (your game port - 1) is the http port. For example, I run my game at win.thedeadlands.net:30500. If I want to access the http xml services, I just point to the following:

http://win.thedeadlands.net:30499/
http://win.thedeadlands.net:30499/details/
http://win.thedeadlands.net:30499/playerlist/

I hope that's what you meant.

I see what you are saying. I am sure others here would like to hear their response to you as well if you wouldn't mind sharing.

It shouldn't be difficult in php. That's what I did here: https://thedeadlands.net/serverstatus.php

A server query, in the context that we are discussing, is just a query to a server for specific information over a specific port or ports. In this case the response is in XML format over http. Other servers may send the response in JSON structure, or some other structure and over tcp, udp, or other protocols.

Very nice.

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Absalom wrote:It shouldn't be difficult in php. That's what I did here: thedeadlands.net/serverstatus.php

Would you mind sharing the php code you used please - I can only get it partially working (using SimpleXML) but it's not working 100%.

Thanks in advance!

Mart

That's fantastic !

Thanks very much ! Hope i can return the favour sometime in the future.

Is it at all possible to display the online players as well ... I couldn't figure out how to work with the player id's so assumed it's probably alot more difficult to parse to php.

That's just one xml document. You can get more by changing the URI portion of the URL like so:

http://win.thedeadlands.net:30499/playerlist

or

http://win.thedeadlands.net:30499/details

One of the devs said they expanded the data too. Not sure what else they added though.

We added new http information: [url]/luascripts

Thanks for the help!

I'm trying to list all players online but I can only get the first player to show up on the list.
Using ...

<?php
if (($response_xml_data = file_get_contents("http://vforvictory.net:4254/playerlist"))===false){
    echo "Error fetching XML\n";
} else {
    $xml=simplexml_load_string($response_xml_data) or die("Error: Cannot create object");

    echo "Players Online: " . $xml->playercount . "<br/>";
    echo "Names: " . $xml->players->player . "<br/>";

}
?>

Lastly, is it possible to incorporate all xml's into one php script at all?

Yes. Each simplexml_load_string is building the $xml object. Once you have that object (i.e. $xml, $xmlDetails, $xmlPlayerList) then all you need to do is build a structure or structures from them. For example, from $xmlPlayers list, you could iterate through the players in the xml object, build an object of Player type (Player would be a class you write to represent a player with methods like setName and getName), and then use those player objects however you see fit (e.g. build a list of player objects to use to populate part of a web page).

<?php
if (($response_xml_data = file_get_contents("http://vforvictory.net:4254/playerlist"))===false){
    echo "Error fetching XML\n";
} else {
    $xml=simplexml_load_string($response_xml_data) or die("Error: Cannot create object");

    // do some stuff 

}


if (($response_xml_data = file_get_contents("http://vforvictory.net:4254/details"))===false){
    echo "Error fetching XML\n";
} else {
    $xml=simplexml_load_string($response_xml_data) or die("Error: Cannot create object");
    // do some stuff
}
?>

And just keep adding blocks of code as you need them for each request.

Thanks Absalom, that helped no end. Much appreciated for your time

No problem. Enjoy! YOu might want to look at some object oriented PHP tutorials or books, and modularize your app. For example, you could encapsulate the logic above in multiple objects if you want. A Server class could provide methods to get that data so that you could do something like $server = new Server(); then you can $playerList = $server->getPlayerList(); or something like that.