Server Query

Riddick

Hey guys..

I wonder if someone would be able to help me. I’m busy with a game web-site and I want to put an application on my site to query the status (players, pings score etc) of the game servers. How do I query a server for information (like all seeing eye)? Is it possible to do in php?

Thanks

drew010

Yes its possible in php. You have to look in the documentation for whatever game server you are using for an explanation of how to query the server and to see what data is returned. You may be able to search the net and find some scripts already written for it too.

bradgrafelman

Yeah, if it's a common game, chances are there are TONS of already-made scripts ready to be implemented into your site.

Alternatively, you could probably write your own by finding out how to get the server to return stats (you may end up looking at pre-made scripts to find this info) and using [man]fsockopen/man to open a connection, [man]fwrite/man to send data, and [man]fgets/man to read in data returned. Not sure though.