Getting stats

[DarkLink]

Hey,
Is there a way using PHP to get certain statistics from a specific website and arrange them on an image? (Yes, it is typically a dynamic image generator.)

[Amzul]

for the picture part you can use rrdtools to create a graph and jpg it.
i assume you have access to that website you want to gather information about.
you can customize your apache log and from that log create the graph.
by using a script that runs as cronjob and refresh your rrdtools graph.

[DarkLink]

In fact, what I'm trying to do is get some stats from a certain game website, such as kills and those stuff depending on the user that has been input. It is for promotional puposes for my website.

[TheServant]

You will need to make your own for that. You will have to record a history and then query the target user to collect the history for that user. This could become a very big database and could take some time to set up, but when I am finished my game I will have something like that, so it can be done! Not sure about graphing yet though.

[DarkLink]

This would probably be an example of what I want:

<?
$accountName = $_GET['name'];
$statsURL = "http://example.com/profile/$accountName?xml=true";

$stats = @simplexml_load_file($statsURL) or die("Failed to retreieve stats XML for user $accountName");

header("Content-type: image/png");
$img = imagecreatefrompng("bg.png");

// Colors
$c_white = imagecolorallocate($img, 255, 255, 255);
$c_black = imagecolorallocate($img, 0, 0, 0);

// Misc
$statsLeft = 160;
$statsTop = 5;

// Name & Rank
$nameString = $stats->user_info['military_rank'] . " " . $stats->user_info['username'];
$size = 18;
$bbox = imagettfbbox($size, 0, "./helr67w.ttf", $nameString);
while ($bbox[4] > (imagesx($img) - $statsLeft - 4)) {
	$size--;
	$bbox = imagettfbbox($size, 0, "./helr67w.ttf", $nameString);
}

// Clan
if ($stats->user_info->clan['clan_name'] != "") $clanString = $stats->user_info->clan['clan_name'] ."\n";

// General Stats
$timeString = "Hours Played: " . round($stats->misc['total_time_played'] / 3600, 2);
$xpString = "XP: " . round($stats->total['xp']);
$rankString = "Rank: " . $stats->user_info['rank'];

// K/D Ratio
$kills = $stats->misc['total_kills'];
$deaths = $stats->misc['total_deaths'];
$ratio = round((float) $stats->total['kill_death_ratio'], 2);
$ratioString = "K/D: $kills/$deaths ($ratio)";


// Favorite Class
$timeArray = array();
foreach ($stats->classes->children() as $class) $timeArray[$class->getName()] = (string) $class['time_used'];
arsort($timeArray);
$classImg = imagecreatefrompng("classes/".key($timeArray).".png");
imagecopy($img, $classImg, 5, 5, 0, 0, imagesx($classImg), imagesy($classImg));

// Favorite Vehicle
$timeArray = array();
foreach ($stats->vehicles->children() as $vehicle) $timeArray[$vehicle->getName()] = (string) $vehicle['total_time_spent'];
arsort($timeArray);
$vehicleImg = imagecreatefrompng("vehicles/".key($timeArray).".png");
imagecopy($img, $vehicleImg, 82, 6, 0, 0, imagesx($vehicleImg), imagesy($vehicleImg));

// Favorite Weapon
$timeArray = array();
foreach ($stats->weapons->children() as $weapon) $timeArray[$weapon->getName()] = (string) $weapon['time_used'];
arsort($timeArray);
while ( strstr(key($timeArray),"combined") ) next($timeArray);
$weaponImg = imagecreatefrompng("weapons/".key($timeArray).".png");
imagecopy($img, $weaponImg, 82, 53, 0, 0, imagesx($weaponImg), imagesy($weaponImg));


// Draw the text
imagettftext($img, $size, 0, $statsLeft + 2, $statsTop + 22, $c_black, "./helr67w.ttf", $nameString);
imagettftext($img, $size, 0, $statsLeft, $statsTop + 20, $c_white, "./helr67w.ttf", $nameString);

$statsText = <<<EOT
$rankString
$timeString
$xpString
$ratioString
EOT;

imagettftext($img, 10, 0, $statsLeft + 1, $statsTop + 41, $c_black, "./helr65w.ttf", $statsText);
imagettftext($img, 10, 0, $statsLeft, $statsTop + 40, $c_white, "./helr65w.ttf", $statsText);

imagepng($img);

[Amzul]

umm you want to get data from a website... that is not your?
you can use curl to get the webpage and the game info
and play with that info

[DarkLink]

Yes, but another program would not do, that code was for getting statistics from: http://stats.enemyterritory.com/