new twdsite!

[Merkaba]

Yeah, I was thinking about that too Kim, have it sort all players on a squad by who has best stats per division.

Well I like the new look, quite surprised to see it today but I knew something was in the works since their was rumours that twsd was coming soon.

It would be nice if there was Player Search for invididual players or have a Top Score List for overall divisions.

***I went to my squad roster and tried to click on my own name and others, yet it doesn't give you any player profile or stats. Is it in the works or maybe the website isn't updating...

[MetalKid]

The website is great except for one thing.

The statistics page... Allow sorting based on column... I'm not shifting thru all the information, page by page!

[AnZu]

Yeah, I was thinking about that too Kim, have it sort all players on a squad by who has best stats per division.

Well I like the new look, quite surprised to see it today but I knew something was in the works since their was rumours that twsd was coming soon.

It would be nice if there was Player Search for invididual players or have a Top Score List for overall divisions.

***I went to my squad roster and tried to click on my own name and others, yet it doesn't give you any player profile or stats. Is it in the works or maybe the website isn't updating...

Stats site is not ready yet, there will be everything mentioned above when it is ready. And yeah, player profiles aren't done yet also.

[Dirty Dozen]

old one good, new one bad

[Benno]

Currently I am making the Unionville site and one of the features was a player roster spidered from the twd site once a day (or when an admin runs the update script) to grab the roster from the iframe that had the roster and update the site's database. Schope was gracious enough to write the regxp to do the dirty work, but it looks like that work is going to waste since the new site uses a differnt structure.

Request:
Please add the ability for squad rosters to be generated into RSS feeds per request. This will add functionality for the users as well as cut down on server overhead for both the twd site and any feed recieving site, since parsing an rss feed is alot easier than writing a complex, resource intensive regxp to do the same job. If you're worried about bandwith, simply do what most feed providers do and regulate how many times per hour a feed may be accessed from a certain domain.

here is the beautifully ugly code schope wrote:

<?
$roster_url= "http://twd.trenchwars.org/body.php?action=ViewSquad&R_fnTeamID=0&tab=1&R_fnTeamID=6533";

$fh = fopen("$roster_url","r");
$buffer = "";
if ($fh) {
	while (!feof($fh)) $buffer .= fgets($fh,4096);	
	$start = '<b>Squad Members</b></font></td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td>1</td>';	
	$end = '</td><td width="40">&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">&nbsp;</td></tr></table><center><font class="n"><BR>&nbsp;<BR>&nbsp;<BR>Legend:';
	$posI = strpos($buffer,$start);
	$posF = strpos($buffer,$end);
	$len = strlen($buffer);
	$str = substr($buffer,$posI,$posF-$posI);
	$str = ereg_replace("<a href=\"body\.php\?action=ViewPlayer&R_fnUserID=([0-9]*)\">","",$str);

//	$pattern = "<.*[fF]{1}[oO]{1}[nN]{1}[tT]{1}.*>([^<]*)</.*[fF]{1}[oO]{1}[nN]{1}[tT]{1}.*>";
	$pattern = "<font color=\"#[a-zA-Z0-9]*\">([^<]*)</font></a>";
	$patterncap = "<font color=\"#[a-zA-Z0-9]*\">([^<]*)</font></a> <font color=\"#FF0000\">\(</b>C</b>\)</font>";
	$patternassist = "<font color=\"#[a-zA-Z0-9]*\">([^<]*)</font></a> <font color=\"#BB7700\">\(</b>A</b>\)</font>";

	$names = array();	
	//get captains
	while (ereg($patterncap,$str,$reg)) {
		$names[]= $reg[1] . " (C)";
		$str = str_replace($reg[0],"",$str);
	}
	//get assists
	while (ereg($patternassist,$str,$reg)) {
		$names[]= $reg[1]. " (A)";
		$str = str_replace($reg[0],"",$str);
	}
	//get normal prayers, would telcat say
	while (ereg($pattern,$str,$reg)) {
		$names[]= $reg[1];
		$str = str_replace($reg[0],"",$str);
	}	
	
	print_r($names);	
}
?

[dchao]

i like the new one but its a bit chaotic

[schope]

Currently I am making the Unionville site and one of the features was a player roster spidered from the twd site once a day (or when an admin runs the update script) to grab the roster from the iframe that had the roster and update the site's database. Schope was gracious enough to write the regxp to do the dirty work, but it looks like that work is going to waste since the new site uses a differnt structure.

Request:
Please add the ability for squad rosters to be generated into RSS feeds per request. This will add functionality for the users as well as cut down on server overhead for both the twd site and any feed recieving site, since parsing an rss feed is alot easier than writing a complex, resource intensive regxp to do the same job. If you're worried about bandwith, simply do what most feed providers do and regulate how many times per hour a feed may be accessed from a certain domain.

here is the beautifully ugly code schope wrote:

<?
$roster_url= "http://twd.trenchwars.org/body.php?action=ViewSquad&R_fnTeamID=0&tab=1&R_fnTeamID=6533";

$fh = fopen("$roster_url","r");
$buffer = "";
if ($fh) {
	while (!feof($fh)) $buffer .= fgets($fh,4096);	
	$start = '<b>Squad Members</b></font></td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td>1</td>';	
	$end = '</td><td width="40">&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">&nbsp;</td></tr></table><center><font class="n"><BR>&nbsp;<BR>&nbsp;<BR>Legend:';
	$posI = strpos($buffer,$start);
	$posF = strpos($buffer,$end);
	$len = strlen($buffer);
	$str = substr($buffer,$posI,$posF-$posI);
	$str = ereg_replace("<a href=\"body\.php\?action=ViewPlayer&R_fnUserID=([0-9]*)\">","",$str);

//	$pattern = "<.*[fF]{1}[oO]{1}[nN]{1}[tT]{1}.*>([^<]*)</.*[fF]{1}[oO]{1}[nN]{1}[tT]{1}.*>";
	$pattern = "<font color=\"#[a-zA-Z0-9]*\">([^<]*)</font></a>";
	$patterncap = "<font color=\"#[a-zA-Z0-9]*\">([^<]*)</font></a> <font color=\"#FF0000\">\(</b>C</b>\)</font>";
	$patternassist = "<font color=\"#[a-zA-Z0-9]*\">([^<]*)</font></a> <font color=\"#BB7700\">\(</b>A</b>\)</font>";

	$names = array();	
	//get captains
	while (ereg($patterncap,$str,$reg)) {
		$names[]= $reg[1] . " (C)";
		$str = str_replace($reg[0],"",$str);
	}
	//get assists
	while (ereg($patternassist,$str,$reg)) {
		$names[]= $reg[1]. " (A)";
		$str = str_replace($reg[0],"",$str);
	}
	//get normal prayers, would telcat say
	while (ereg($pattern,$str,$reg)) {
		$names[]= $reg[1];
		$str = str_replace($reg[0],"",$str);
	}	
	
	print_r($names);	
}
?

wtf!!!!!! my code is pretty ! u are the ugly kid here pos ! and yes, site looks total chaos

[PrOnEsSim]

lol when i clicked on mozila i was like wtf what is this website then look at the banner and saw "TWD" i was shocked, this was a suprise good job its very sleek

[AnZu]

Please add the ability for squad rosters to be generated into RSS feeds per request. This will add functionality for the users as well as cut down on server overhead for both the twd site and any feed recieving site, since parsing an rss feed is alot easier than writing a complex, resource intensive regxp to do the same job. If you're worried about bandwith, simply do what most feed providers do and regulate how many times per hour a feed may be accessed from a certain domain.

Yeah don't worry, it will be done, probably not RSS but something that is simple to parse.

[leroy]

Only have two complaints =P.

1) Table based layout.... why? Sure there's a lot of tabular data being presented, but that doesn't mean the whole thing has to be buried in table,tr and td tags.

2) Why put up the new site before it's finished? Seems kinda like someone jumped the gun, or missed a deadline.

[Cremation]

the site looks very nice, but its not functional

i got lost in it, and some of the main things that should jump out at the reader - for example, while looking through squads, the Roster option, same with the Recent TWD matches - and the site doesnt accomplish this, since that stuff is in small text, and tough to read =(

[Benno]

Cool Anzu, I only suggested rss becuase search engines recognize it and it can help site rank (not that it matters I guess, since its the twd site).

I agree with leroy concering the tables. Neglecting the "hard" things to do with a non-table layout, there are alot of things about the current site that could be optimized alot. Here is my nearly identical version of the roster list thats much more optimized.

the html

<div id="roster_list">
<ol>
	<li><a href ="#" title="pilot : Apocalypse WOW!">regular player du</a></li>
	<li><a href="#" class="acap" title="assisstant : Cigars">Cigars (A)</a></li>
	<li><a href="#" class="twd_mod" title="moderator: Dameon Angell">Dameon Angell</a></li>
	<li><a href ="#" title="pilot : dchao">dchao</a></li>
	<li><a href="#" class="cap">Evereet (C)</a></li>
</ol>
</div>

Since the only use for tables in the current version is numbering them, a simpl ordered list does the same trick. the only difference is the decimal point. Without font tags and table cells all over, this is much more lighter code.

the CSS

#roster_list {
	padding-left: 30px; // padding and margins...this needs to be tweaked
	background-color: black;
	}
#roster_list ol {
	list-style-type: decimal;
	color: white;
}
#roster_list ol a:link{
	font-family : Tahoma, Verdana; //taken from the existing css
	letter-spacing : 1px;
	font-size : 10px;
	text-decoration : none;
	color: white;
}
#roster_list ol a.twd_mod{
	color: #ee00ee;
}
#roster_list ol a.acap {
	color: #bb7700;
}
#roster_list ol a.cap{
	color: #ff0000;
}
#roster_list ol a:hover {
	text-decoration: underline;
}

This css is an almost pixel perfect representation of the current tabled version. (tested in current versions of firefox and IE on windows XP)

code I use to display the list, works if your script grabs an array like that one from the database

<?php 
	#magic sql stuff that builds an array here
	#simulated array of players
		$roster = array ( 
				1  => array ( "id" => "23425", "player" => "regular pilot guy", "rank" => "pilot"),
				2 => array ( "id" => "23425", "player" => "twd op person", "rank" => "twd_mod"),
				3 => array ( "id" => "23425", "player" => "captain_guy", "rank" => "cap"),
				4 => array ( "id" => "23425", "player" => "asssssscap", "rank" => "acap"),
				5 => array ( "id" => "23425", "player" => "another_reg_guy", "rank" => "pilot")
				);
	#end fake player array
	$output_roster =  "\n<ol>\n";
	foreach($roster as $key => $value){
		//$output_roster .="\t<li>";
		$output_roster .= "\t<li><a href=".'"'.$value["id"].'" title="'.$value["rank"].' : '.$value["player"].'"';
		if($value["rank"] != "pilot") {
			$output_roster .= ' class="'.$value["rank"].'" ';
		}
		$output_roster .= '">'.$value["player"]."<a/></li>\n";
	}
	
	#<li><a href ="#" title="pilot : Apocalypse WOW!">Apocalypse WOW!</a></li>
	
	$output_roster .= "</ol>\n";
	echo $output_roster;
?>

[Volny]

Look is good, but thats about all, very chaotic website.

On first sight maybe but in fact its faster! Before this site i needed 3 clicks to see other than BD ladder. Now i just clik on ">>" under every top5 from every division.
Having more matches in "recent matches" would be better tho and those large "D" "B" and "J" there are ugly (i gues they will be similar to "S" soon)

On the other hand everything else is uberleet B) especially main top banner!

EDIT: i hit f5 and trada "B" "D" "J" are cool now ... damn browser cache

[Ardour]

Nice look, cool way of displaying statistics, fast, sexy, Very nice job people.
Almost made me cry.

[tahkis]

What a surprise Sika made black background.