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I need a specific serverlist script in php.

I need it to update a list of live D3 servers, and send that information into a text file in this format:

servername,ip,port,mode,#ofplayersingame,max#ofplayersingame,mapname

servername,ip,port,mode,#ofplayersingame,max#ofplayersingame,mapname

servername,ip,port,mode,#ofplayersingame,max#ofplayersingame,mapname

servername,ip,port,mode,#ofplayersingame,max#ofplayersingame,mapname

(each line should appear something like this:
2v2 Descent.cx,64.238.111.11,2100,Team Anarchy,0,4,indika.mn3
...)

The path for the output file would be
/files/webtext/serverlist.inc.txt

Its for use in our new website, which is nearing completion. Can anyone help with that?

Anyone?

I did something similar a while ago, but im not sure if I have the code still.

in short, you need to understand the query protocol for D3(should be well documented, so you don't have to sit with a packet sniffer), and have it update a DB/text file every 90 seconds or so.

If it updated whenever the page was loaded, that would work good too.

Capm wrote:If it updated whenever the page was loaded, that would work good too.

you run the risk of flooding the servers with query requests. updating at a given interval makes more sense, than updating whenever someone requests a page, especially if more than one person requests a page at the same time.

Yeah the only real way to do it would be to have a query script run as a cron job and update a file that the webserver could serve.

Well, the file is in the members section of the site, I don't forsee it being used too awful much.
Certainly not enough to cause problems.

Actually, an "update list" button would work, with a timestamp that could be pulled by the page and displayed. That way if the list is fresh, it wouldn't need to be updated again.

And I could put that where only certain people could access it, so there wouldn't be any flooding of servers, only time the list is used is for updating match server information when inputing a match into the database.