Introducing PALP - PHP Altitude Log Parser

[phong]

Originally Posted by krawz

I've spent most of today getting all this ready on a test system, and I think I'm almost there.

I am trying to get the plane restrictions working, but I don't know how. I guess I don't understand the "array" part, and the number next to it (50006). It seems that these distinguish one server instance from another, but I don't know where these numbers come from. Could anyone clarify this for me? I have pasted the relevant section from my palp.inc file, below. Thanks in advance.

// Plane restrictions
// Example: $restricted = array(array('Loopy','Double Fire','Heavy Armor','Ultracapacitor'), array('Loopy','Double Fire','Heavy Armor','Turbocharger'));

$restricted = array(

	array('50006','Loopy','Tracker','Rubberized Hull','Turbocharger'), 
	array('50006','Loopy','Double Fire','Heavy Armor','Turbocharger')

);
global $restricted;

?>

It all depends on your config and the ports you use for your servers. For example, if you have two servers configured in your config, one on port 44444 and one on 44445, then you would use those to set your restrictions.

Say the server you configured on port 44444 is a server that doesnt allow double fire loopies that use turbocharger blue perks, while the server on 44445 is a server that only restricts Miranda with Time Anchor, Repair Drone and Turbocharger:

$restricted = array(

array('44444','Loopy','Double Fire','Heavy Armor','Turbocharger'),
array('44444','Loopy','Double Fire','Repair Drone','Turbocharger'),
array('44444','Loopy','Double Fire','Rubberized Hull','Turbocharger'),
array('44444','Loopy','Double Fire','Flexible Wings','Turbocharger'),
array('44445','Miranda','Time Anchor','Repair Drone','Turbocharger')

);

Unfortunately it's main intention was to restrict double fire loopies and I never got around to adding an "ALL" value so you wouldn't have to add 50 perk combination's.

[|HF|Binarian]

In case you (being anybody) care, I am working on the same program in JAVA...it should run a bit faster, since PHP is interpreted while JAVA is compiled (trust me its true)...also, there is multithreading for JAVA....which is helpful for some of what i am trying to do with PALP. I think i shall call the java program....JALP (unless you get really offended by that). This is just supposed to be an optional alternative to PALP...it may be easier or harder for people depending on their background.

Anywho........that's what I'm doing.

|HF| bin

[|HF|Binarian]

JALP is 99% complete. do people want me to post a link to a zip file where you can download it? or are you all content to use PALP (which really is amazing)?

|HF| bin

[mikesol]

Originally Posted by |HF|Binarian

JALP is 99% complete. do people want me to post a link to a zip file where you can download it? or are you all content to use PALP (which really is amazing)?

|HF| bin

I'd say make your own thread for JALP. Realize, however, that there is a copyright on PALP - so make sure you don't break that.

[krawz]

Originally Posted by |HF|Binarian

JALP is 99% complete. do people want me to post a link to a zip file where you can download it? or are you all content to use PALP (which really is amazing)?

|HF| bin

Gimme gimme gimme!

[Gh0stalk3r]

cool
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[Gh0stalk3r]

Java would be awsome for windows users(I could never figure out how to run php scripts on windows )

[|HF|Binarian]

Originally Posted by mikesol

I'd say make your own thread for JALP. Realize, however, that there is a copyright on PALP - so make sure you don't break that.

I HAD NO IDEA IT WAS COPYRIGHTED!!!

Thank you so much for telling me. I completely missed that. I will talk with phong and see if we can come to some sort of agreement.

|HF| bin

[mikesol]

Originally Posted by |HF|Binarian

I HAD NO IDEA IT WAS COPYRIGHTED!!!

Thank you so much for telling me. I completely missed that. I will talk with phong and see if we can come to some sort of agreement.

|HF| bin

If my memory serves me correctly he's using the typical free-software copy left copyright. This basically means that you can use it and whatnot - but you have to give him credit and you can't make any money off of it (I think). I also don't think you even need to contact him as long as you don't want to violate some of the conditions of copy left. You can see the top of palp's source code for a link to the copyright conditions

[|HF|Binarian]

All necessary permissions have been granted for the launching of JALP, so I will start a new thread when i release it.

|HF| bin

[Kwee]

Looking forward to that.

[aloha.pk]

Originally Posted by |HF|Binarian

All necessary permissions have been granted for the launching of JALP, so I will start a new thread when i release it.

|HF| bin

when is this going to happen?

earlier you asked if we want a link so we can download it... my answer to that question is yes

99% complete is plenty complete for me. please post or send me download link, thanks!

[|HF|Binarian]

Unfortunately it's nowhere near done. I only get to work on it a few minutes at a time, due to my college courseload. There are MANY errors, some of which are driving me crazy. I will try to knock out a significant chunk this week/weekend. I will submit both a base jar file and the source code, and then most likely an optimized copy of each. We will see where this project leads.

HF Bin

[aloha.pk]

woohoo consider this lots of encouragement

[TRUEPAiN]

Got this error.

PALP: Starting..
PALP: Database connection established successfully

Warning: popen() has been disabled for security reasons in /opt/altitude/palp.php on line 1021

how do I make it go away :-(

[|HF|Binarian]

I would say make sure that palp has the correct permissions to read the logfile. I assume the line you are talking about is

$fp = popen("tail -n 0 -F " .$logfile. " 2>&1", "rb");

If not, please supply the line in palp.php that is causing the issue. try running palp once with sudo...if that works, then it is most likely a permissions issue. Otherwise, there is something else wrong.

HF Bin

[phong]

Just to update your question about popen, this is usually because php is running with safe_mode enabled which is common among shared hosting providers. Some providers will allow you to upload custom config files (php.in/php5.ini) to your root directory and you can try to turn off safe_mode through that, or you can talk to your provider about it.

[phong]

Also bin if you want to send me your java source I'll take a look at it. I was looking at converting it to java as a project to get into java. I've been having issues finding a good json decoder, also my method for streaming the log using tailer always resulted in it reading a line twice, not sure why.

import java.io.File;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.List;

import net.sf.json.JSONObject;
import net.sf.json.JSONSerializer;

import org.apache.commons.io.input.*;
import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;

public class Main {

public static void main(String args[]) {
class MyTailerListener extends TailerListenerAdapter {
public void handle(String line) {
System.out.println(line); //Prints log entries twice for some reason?

}
}

System.out.println("Starting");

File test = new File("c:\\program files (x86)\\altitude\\servers\\log.txt");
TailerListener listener = new MyTailerListener();
Tailer tailer = Tailer.create(test, listener, 100, true);
Thread thread = new Thread(tailer);
thread.start();
}
}

[19 cm]

Does anyone have a copy of http://puddle.ohjeah.net/palp.zip ? The website is down

[nobodyhome]

I think phong has a magical script that checks this forum for new posts and then if his name is ever mentioned it'll e-mail him. So now that I've written his name in my post he should see it and reply.

[nobodyhome]

Ok maybe I was wrong. You should PM phong, I know for sure that he gets e-mailed whenever he gets a PM.

[phong]

I'll see if I can dig it up.

[phong]

Mmm don't think I have it around anymore

[Aki1024]

palp.zip 3-27-2010
Found it on my old harddrive, dated as downloaded around 11/11/2011

[phong]

Thanks, updated op as well.

[Reeslo]

I found a little bug

you must use mysql_pconnect to make a persistant connection to the database

it happens a few days after the connection lost.

with PDO:
PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT => true

[phong]

mysql_pconnect shouldn't be necessary so I wouldn't call it a bug, though use whatever you like best.

[Reeslo]

Originally Posted by phong

mysql_pconnect shouldn't be necessary so I wouldn't call it a bug, though use whatever you like best.

see that the script has lost the connection to database, may not be a bug. I saw no solution else than opening a persistent connection . what would you do?

[phong]

If using pconnect solved it for you then run with it, but neither ladder or palp use it. All depends on your mysql/php configuration though.