php help

[AndMetal]

In general, you're probably going to want to use Regular Expressions, although it's gonna be a little complicated.

When I log into my GM character, this is everything that's returned with the "who" command in the telnet window:

  * GM-Impossible * [ANON 70 Stone Fist] Xamlagar (Iksar) zone: poknowledge AccID: 13 AccName: AndMetal LSID: 87737 Status: 250

And this is what you get with a regular character (not sure about any leading spaces):

[59 Master] Yuari (Iksar) zone: sebilis AccID: 298 AccName: Flora LSID: 110561 Status: 0

The first issue is that the string doesn't have the same delimiters every time. You could use explode with a space as the delimiter to start separating it, but because several items can be multiple words (class & race off the top of my head), that doesn't really help. So, back to regular expressions.

First, we'll start by pulling just the character info:

PHP Code:

fConnect($fp,$Server,$Port,$user,$pass);

fputs ($fp, "who\r"); 
usleep(125000);

while (!feof($fp)) {
    $ret[++$x] = fgets($fp);
    if (ereg("zone", $ret[$x])) {
        fclose($fp);
        break;
    };
}; 


So now we can work with $ret.

To separate any GM flag, you should be able to use this:

PHP Code:

preg_match("/\*.*\*/", $ret[1], $matches);
$players[1][GM] = trim($matches[0], "* "); 


This will return:

GM-Impossible

for the GM character & a blank for a regular character. You could then use the same idea for the rest. This is the script I came up with:

PHP Code:

foreach ($ret as $key => $value) {
    // GM Status
    if (preg_match("/\*.*\*/", $value, $matches)) {
        $players[$key][GM] = trim($matches[0], "* ");
    };
    // Role/Anon, Level, & Class
    if (preg_match("/\[.*\]/", $value, $matches)) {
        $tmp = explode(" ", trim($matches[0], "[] "));
        if (!is_numeric($tmp[0])) {
            $players[$key][Visible] = $tmp[0];
            $players[$key][Level] = $tmp[1];
            $players[$key]["Class"] = rtrim($tmp[2] . " " . $tmp[3], " ");
        } else {
            $players[$key][Level] = $tmp[0];
            $players[$key]["Class"] = rtrim($tmp[1] . " " . $tmp[2], " ");
        };
    };
    // Character's Name
    if (preg_match("/\].*\(/", $value, $matches)) {
        $players[$key][Name] = trim($matches[0], "] (");
    };
    // Race
    if (preg_match("/\(.*\)/", $value, $matches)) {
        $players[$key][Race] = trim($matches[0], "( )");
    };
    // Zone
    if (preg_match("/zone:.*AccID:/", $value, $matches)) {
        $players[$key][ZoneLong] = substr($matches[0], 6, -7);
    };
    // Account ID
    if (preg_match("/AccID:.*AccName:/", $value, $matches)) {
        $players[$key][AcctID] = substr($matches[0], 7, -9);
    };
    // Account Name
    if (preg_match("/AccName:.*LSID:/", $value, $matches)) {
        $players[$key][AcctName] = substr($matches[0], 9, -6);
    };
    // Login Server ID
    if (preg_match("/LSID:.*Status:/", $value, $matches)) {
        $players[$key][LSID] = substr($matches[0], 6, -8);
    };
    // Status
    if (preg_match("/Status:.*/", $value, $matches)) {
        $players[$key][Status] = substr($matches[0], 8, 3);
    };
}; 


Now you have a nice, simple array of all the characters that you can foreach to output to a table. The only thing missing would be anything that has to do with Guilds, but that should be easy enough to add.

I'm sure there's more efficient ways of doing this, especially if you can pull just what you're looking for the with Regular Expression instead of everything around it, but this will at least get the job done.

Hope this helps.

[spider661]

ok i tried doing a print_r($players); and got an error.

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in E:\wamp\www\who.php on line 46

for each player online

btw this is after adding to my code so line 46 is the first line there.
foreach ($ret as $key => $value) {


what should i do and am i calling the print_r($players); correctly or should i do something else. im trying to print it so i can see all the values of the array so i can place them in the right tables

[AndMetal]

For some reason, my Telnet code made sense the other day, but after looking at it now, I'm not sure where me head was

Here is the entire script I put together for testing:

PHP Code:

<?php

$ret[1] = "  * GM-Impossible * [ANON 70 Stone Fist] Xamlagar (Iksar) zone: poknowledge AccID: 13 AccName: AndMetal LSID: 87737 Status: 250";
$ret[2] = "  [59 Master] Yuari (Iksar) zone: sebilis AccID: 298 AccName: Flora LSID: 110561 Status: 0";
$ret[3] = "  [70 Performer] Keasi (Half Elf) zone: poknowledge AccID: 1777 AccName: Keasi LSID: 69583 Status: 0";
$ret[4] = "  [70 Vanquisher] Suddz (Iksar) zone: cabeast AccID: 1780 AccName: OcelotRX LSID: 110949 Status: 0";

echo "<pre>\n\$ret = ";
print_r($ret);
echo "\n</pre>\n";

foreach ($ret as $key => $value) {
    // GM Status
    if (preg_match("/\*.*\*/", $value, $matches)) {
        $players[$key][GM] = trim($matches[0], "* ");
    };
    // Role/Anon, Level, & Class
    if (preg_match("/\[.*\]/", $value, $matches)) {
        $tmp = explode(" ", trim($matches[0], "[] "));
        if (!is_numeric($tmp[0])) {
            $players[$key][Visible] = $tmp[0];
            $players[$key][Level] = $tmp[1];
            $players[$key]["Class"] = rtrim($tmp[2] . " " . $tmp[3], " ");
        } else {
            $players[$key][Level] = $tmp[0];
            $players[$key]["Class"] = rtrim($tmp[1] . " " . $tmp[2], " ");
        };
    };
    // Character's Name
    if (preg_match("/\].*\(/", $value, $matches)) {
        $players[$key][Name] = trim($matches[0], "] (");
    };
    // Race
    if (preg_match("/\(.*\)/", $value, $matches)) {
        $players[$key][Race] = trim($matches[0], "( )");
    };
    // Zone
    if (preg_match("/zone:.*AccID:/", $value, $matches)) {
        $players[$key][ZoneLong] = substr($matches[0], 6, -7);
    };
    // Account ID
    if (preg_match("/AccID:.*AccName:/", $value, $matches)) {
        $players[$key][AcctID] = substr($matches[0], 7, -9);
    };
    // Account Name
    if (preg_match("/AccName:.*LSID:/", $value, $matches)) {
        $players[$key][AcctName] = substr($matches[0], 9, -6);
    };
    // Login Server ID
    if (preg_match("/LSID:.*Status:/", $value, $matches)) {
        $players[$key][LSID] = substr($matches[0], 6, -8);
    };
    // Status
    if (preg_match("/Status:.*/", $value, $matches)) {
        $players[$key][Status] = substr($matches[0], 8, 3);
    };
};

echo "<pre>\n\$players = ";
print_r($players);
echo "\n</pre>\n";

?>

And it works fine. However, it doesn't look like the Telnet code I suggested is putting out the array $ret, which is why it's freaking out at the foreach. Try this instead:

PHP Code:

fConnect($fp,$Server,$Port,$user,$pass);

fputs ($fp, "who\r"); 
usleep(125000);

while (!feof($fp)) {
    $ret_tmp = fgets($fp);
    if (ereg("zone", $ret_tmp)) {$ret[++$x] = $ret_tmp;};
    if (ereg("online", $ret_tmp)) {break;};
};
fclose($fp); 


That should put just the players into $ret & skip everything else, instead of just stopping the while loop & not outputting anything useful.