Ruatha: PBW Alternate Scripts

[Fyron]

So... could you point me to the latest Version of those scripts you had written to use when PBW is down?

[Ruatha]

Syre Fyron, will do as soon as I get home from work (Approx 12 hours now).

[Gandalph]

I sent you an email about this also. It would be easier to run my games this way. Please send them on over to me as well.

[Ruatha]

Here comes as requested, if you don't understand what it is about just ignore it!

You need a HTTP server with PHP capabilty.
You can see it working here
Newbie Galactic combat 3 PBW Emergency Site

Thanx to Fyron for dragging me into PHP scripting, screaming and kicking all the way though!

Download all files here:
http://pbw.ath.cx/Site.zip

This is the readme, also included:
[i]
You need a http server capable of handling php files.
The starting file is index.php
You can set up as many sites as you wish but each site needs their own directory ith a gamefile and turnfiles subdirectories.
You can alter all data in simple textfiles, the configuration.txt set up is before the site is turned on and then shouldn't have to be altered anymore.
The playerdata.txt needs to be altered when players drop and are replaced.
The deadline.txt needs to be alterd when the deadline is updated.
Hopefully I'll fix a better deadline handler in the future, and a progress bar for the uplaod turnfile, that script has been giving some players troubles, I'll look into that (Not working for some).

The gamefile that lies in the GAMEFILE directory must be named in PBW standard,
that is:
Gamename_turnnumber.zip
and the gamename the same as in configuration.txt

i e:
NGC3_57.zip

The uploaded turnfiles in TURNFILES directory should be named accrdingly in PBW standard:
Gamename_playernumber(4 numbers).plr

i e:
ngc3_0001.plr

These are the textfiles that needs to be altered:

#1. Configuration.txt:
Game name
Site name
Host name
Host e-mail
Info line

i e:
NGC3
Newbie Galactic Combat 3 PBW Emergency Site
Ruatha
[email protected]
Made 2003 by Ruatha with Wordpad.

#2. Playerdata.txt :
Number of players
Player1
Player1 e-mail
Player1 empire name

i e:
2
Ruatha
[email protected]
Swedish Democracy
James
[email protected]
Storuman Republic

#3. Deadline.txt
year
Month
Day
hour

i e:
2003
8
22
20

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Good luck.

Ruatha

[Fyron]

Well this sucks... the get turn file script (oddly named upload.php... ) is not working for me. I set the gamename in the configuration info to adamant010. I uploaded a file named adamant010_24.zip to the gamefile turn, but it is not reading the file.

Also, on your sample site, it seems to be appending ".php" to the end of the turn file zip...

[ October 23, 2003, 21:29: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Fyron]

I see the problem...

In upload.txt, you have this code:

// Format and output the file name and link.
$dl = "ngc3_".$latest.".zip";


This is BAD BAD BAD, as it forces the game to think that the file name is ngc3...


Well, that is not the only problem... it is just going to make it impossible to get the right filename for anyone running a game not named "ngc3"... I still can't get it to recognize my file...

It is sending gamefile/adamant010 _24.zip to the send_file function...

[ October 23, 2003, 21:44: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]