Cycloonx Report post Posted March 24, 2008 (edited) Hi all, I was trying to get the hang of AJAX today and as a simple test I made this page: http://mastersofrelics.com/EL/online_players.php You can search for players very fast by typing there name in the input box. From the moment you type 1 letter it will start searching players who fit that combination. I think this might be handy in PK to check someone's stats by typing only like the 3 first characters of his name. You can make your browser very small so you can just see the input box and put it next to your EL window I hope atleast someone will like it. I was also thinking to let people make there own lists of people they want to check to see if they are online (like an online buddy list). But I first want to see if there is enough demand for this feature, and maybe it already exists? I hope to get some feedback To radu: The page only downloads the txt file from the main site every 5 minutes if the page was openend at that time, so there is no real extra bandwith usage. Update: Now player stats are shown if you search and the system only returns 1 player. Since the system is only allowed to get 1 player every 5 minutes, it will not always return the stats (depends on the time the last request was done). Old searches are cached, so in time the amount of found players will become bigger and faster requestable. You can now also search through offline players (red = offline, green = online). Edited April 10, 2008 by Cycloonx Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LabRat Report post Posted March 24, 2008 /gossip about labrat I can see your point, if the masses can use your http://mastersofrelics.com/EL/online_players.txt as a public mirror it would save Ent some bandwidth. Best clearing it with him first though Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cycloonx Report post Posted March 24, 2008 /gossip about labrat I know about gossip, but if you ask her too much she goes ignoring your request The page can always be used to see if someone is playing when you are offline Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Desertus Report post Posted March 24, 2008 firefox's ctrl+f search works as good Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peino Report post Posted March 24, 2008 Easy, quick, bookmarked. Thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ermabwed Report post Posted March 24, 2008 firefox's ctrl+f search works as good Search as you type option for the win Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
toban Report post Posted March 30, 2008 Very nice, Hope it sticks around. Good Job... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mugwump Report post Posted March 30, 2008 Very nice! Quick and clean, I'll use it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FatboyJaxx Report post Posted March 30, 2008 Nice! Now if you could make it take you to the rankings page for people with cheap privacy turned on..... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ozmondius Report post Posted March 31, 2008 This is very nice, thank you. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JimP Report post Posted March 31, 2008 Oh this is sweet! VERY Fast look up... and nice how it narrows down as you type! My one suggestion ... once you get below 5 search results...just print-out all 5 characters! ex: SEARCH: jim Jim Jimbo Jimmy JimP JimsPlace Main Attributes Main Attributes Main Attributes Main Attributes Main Attributes Physique: 16/16 Physique: 16/16 Physique: 16/16 Physique: 16/16 Physique: 16/16 Coordination: 14/14 Coordination: 14/14 Coordination: 14/14 Coordination: 14/14 Coordination: 14/14 Reasoning: 8/8 Reasoning: 8/8 Reasoning: 8/8 Reasoning: 8/8 Reasoning: 8/8 . . . etc Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cycloonx Report post Posted March 31, 2008 It's a good idea, but this would require each time to load the page from the website. I don't think radu will like this. Although I could ask him, but I guess it will be a no. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Learner Report post Posted March 31, 2008 It's a good idea, but this would require each time to load the page from the website. I don't think radu will like this. Although I could ask him, but I guess it will be a no. He already said he only gots the website data no faster then 5 minutes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cycloonx Report post Posted March 31, 2008 It's a good idea, but this would require each time to load the page from the website. I don't think radu will like this. Although I could ask him, but I guess it will be a no. He already said he only gots the website data no faster then 5 minutes. Well i'm that guy who posted that. But to show the stats of the players I would also need to get the data from the user pages, right? It's not that I can filter out the stats from a player from the online_players.txt file. Anyway, I already send a pm to radu to ask if it is allowed (not for 5 players, but for 1). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Learner Report post Posted March 31, 2008 It's a good idea, but this would require each time to load the page from the website. I don't think radu will like this. Although I could ask him, but I guess it will be a no. He already said he only gots the website data no faster then 5 minutes. Well i'm that guy who posted that. But to show the stats of the players I would also need to get the data from the user pages, right? It's not that I can filter out the stats from a player from the online_players.txt file. Anyway, I already send a pm to radu to ask if it is allowed (not for 5 players, but for 1). To show the stats of the player you just cache the player data as well, but maybe more then a 5 minute interval, maybe if the data is an hour or less old, then use the cached data. Sorry about my earlier post ... half asleep this morning Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cycloonx Report post Posted March 31, 2008 It's a good idea, but this would require each time to load the page from the website. I don't think radu will like this. Although I could ask him, but I guess it will be a no. He already said he only gots the website data no faster then 5 minutes. Well i'm that guy who posted that. But to show the stats of the players I would also need to get the data from the user pages, right? It's not that I can filter out the stats from a player from the online_players.txt file. Anyway, I already send a pm to radu to ask if it is allowed (not for 5 players, but for 1). To show the stats of the player you just cache the player data as well, but maybe more then a 5 minute interval, maybe if the data is an hour or less old, then use the cached data. Sorry about my earlier post ... half asleep this morning Well if this is allowed I would happely implent it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Entropy Report post Posted March 31, 2008 Yeah, you can cache the data if you want, 1 every 5 minutes. I mean, access a different player once every 5 minutes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JimP Report post Posted March 31, 2008 (edited) Oh nice....Ent said yes.... this is now my official page to look up player stats LOL Sometimes its hard to ask gossip a players stats... when they use l33t names...not sure if I type sp0iler or spOiler... this new lookup system you have is VERY user friendly! Thanks for the hard work! EDIT: Found a small flaw.... Try looking up _rei_marcus ... he is online right now... but your search engine isn't allowing "_" (underscore) EDIT EDIT: Ok, now I guess it is working...took a looong time to find _rei.... but it did find it! Edited March 31, 2008 by JimP Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marr Report post Posted March 31, 2008 can i repost my solution or will i get slapped then? (i would even try to make it human readable) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cycloonx Report post Posted March 31, 2008 can i repost my solution or will i get slapped then? (i would even try to make it human readable) Which solution are you talking about? Anyway, now the player stats are shown if there is only 1 player found. Since it is only allowed to get new stats of a player once in 5 minutes (if no one requested another) it might take some time to cache new players. Please be patient with the system. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JimP Report post Posted March 31, 2008 WOW! That is VERY nice... wish it would work with 5 players.... but this is awesome! Very clean feel to it. Nice Work! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JimP Report post Posted March 31, 2008 Quick question.... Are you allowed to Read in the entire data base every 5 min? Can you save this in an array, and use the array to display 5 players at a time? Would this help take a strain off the EL Server... one person reading the entire database... as opposed to 1,000 people picking at it bit by bit? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cycloonx Report post Posted April 1, 2008 No, entropy posted here I can only read 1 page every 5 minutes. In time most players will be cached anyway Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cycloonx Report post Posted April 10, 2008 Now the system also keeps track of offline players. Online players are shown as green, and offline ones as red. I've added this so I can later add the buddy list system, it might be done this weekend Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fedora Report post Posted April 10, 2008 Nice job. Inspired by it I checked the client code and discovered we already have functions to get files through http...any interest in a "#online xxx" command to be added directly into the client? If so i can start code it right now... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
