my programming code

[cybernaut]

Hello everybody,

In short words I like to share my code which I had written in my time running an Altitude server. (About 1.5 years now)

First one is based on an old version of PALP (PHP Altitude Log Parser):
I tried to evolve a clan-based rating ladder; sadly there was not enough response to achieve a decent competition....
But here is the PHP code.
It’s not really cleaned or finished, but maybe someone has a use for it
-->Attachement

edit: Newer version of PALP can be found here
My attachement is only for historical reason, and if i want to look up something...

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Second one is a modified version based on a Java program I found here in the forum. I cannot recall the post or find it anymore. If you do know which post it is, pls send the link to me so I can add the link here.

Now on to some tech stuff:
I uploaded the Java Maven project into Google's subversion.
svn checkout http://another-alti-log-parser.googl...com/svn/trunk/ another-alti-log-parser-read-only

To get the whole package (runnable jar with samples and source code) you need to download a 2 MB ZIP from Google:
http://another-alti-log-parser.googl...ck_one_jar.zip

So what does it need?
It requires a MySQL database and tail (linux). Maybe it’s running on Windows too, but I never tried
MySQL Scheme is included in source code.

What does it do?
The program has different modes, which are:
- counting goals, kills, deaths and displaying them in-game as rank
- counting turret kills for coop and displaying them in-game as rank
- Map-based configuration for coop points to achieve time and a rank
(one can say it’s a micro version of a ranking system)

I made most of the parts configurable, so you can edit the messages send by the server and a lot of other things.
I also tried to document the config... I really tried... most of the classes and methods in the code are not documented at all.

So you will find a basic documentation and a lot of comments in the files.

Why did I do this?
Simple answer, just for fun

Just to make sure:
This is no framework or anything like that. It's not easy to use for most ppl and will cause a question mark above some ppls head.

That's all folks...
cybs out

edit: added new PALP version thx to Aki1024 and of course phong
changed filename and added database_scheme for php

[Tekn0]

Hey you should join us in the altitude IRC channel (irc.freenode.org #altitude ) there are other guys who work on Alti stuff there like Ladder match stats and what not.

[phong]

A couple things:

• You should include the pear json library with your package which ensures compatibility with php < 5.1 (it's included with palp)
  
• There are several instances of static paths, you should make these variables so they can be easily modified to accommodate different user environments
  
• You may also want to include a database schema for the user to import
  
• A big issue with palp1 was database maintenance during startup/shutdown, say if palp wasn't launched prior to the server there could be ghost entries of active players. You'd probably want to map out existing database procedures to clean that up.

The main reason there has never been a primary statistical addon (like hlstats in CS) is because none has ever been 100% finished or maintained. People want to be able to install a full featured package with few instructions and have it work properly as most are not developers/system admins.

[Aki1024]

For those (like me) that don't know about Phong's base PALP code link: PALP

[cybernaut]

@tekn0: Maybe I should give IRC a try... thx for the information

@phong:
Thank you for your response, I appreciate it.
But that version I posted is not to be run anymore and not really finished. It will have some flaws and bugs
Maybe I should remove it...
Anyway, I added database scheme and library file.

@Aki1024: Thx for link, added it in the OP