WANTED: Lifemapper siggy counter!

[Jeff]

See title!

p.s. A stats page would also RULE!!! :nod:

[riddlermarc]

barcode and Mincer are currently looking at resurrecting the TPR siggy counter, I believe ol’green ears is going to sort out the code and let barcode have a shufty.

I would do it but my problem is working out how to parse the XML data from the Team page - my parsing skills are a little rusty, if someone can help me with that I can certainly do the rest :nod: And if the parsing can be sorted, I don’t see why a stats page can’t be generated from the output

Also, the LM stats are only updated every day aren’t they? In which case we’d probably have to only hit their servers once daily…

BTW the XML stats are here:

http://www.lifemapper.org/lm-individualmembers/lm-memberstats/FullMembersReport.xml
http://www.lifemapper.org/lm-individualmembers/lm-memberstats/FullGroupsReport.xml

[barcode]

I’m not really going to look at Mincers code… I just gonna host it.

As for writting a siggy counter for LM I’m flat out at work at the moment and outside of work I’m implementing a BitTorrent application.

I’ll happily host anything anyone writes. I can host Perl, PHP, C, C++, Java and probably others.

[riddlermarc]

Originally posted by barcode
[B]I’m not really going to look at Mincers code… I just gonna host it.

As for writting a siggy counter for LM I’m flat out at work at the moment and outside of work I’m implementing a BitTorrent application.

I’ll happily host anything anyone writes. I can host Perl, PHP, C, C++, Java and probably others. [/B]
Oh, okay then… if I can get a look at Mincer’s parsing (ooer!) I may be able to sort something out

[jimwyser]

I got a crayon in hand and drew a really good looking one on the monitor. But the only thing is it is still manual update can’t figure this auto update thing out.

[Jeff]

Originally posted by jimwyser
I got a crayon in hand and drew a really good looking one on the monitor. But the only thing is it is still manual update can’t figure this auto update thing out.

[metz2000]

'ello, me wantsss Lifemapper counter!

[richardlellisjr]

Originally posted by metz2000
'ello, me wantsss Lifemapper counter!

eloquent. :nod:

I would offer to help but I haven’t the slightest idea how to recognize code, let alone write it.

I’m happy to cheer you on though. :yippee: :yippee: :yippee:

[barcode]

Originally posted by richardlellisjr
[B]eloquent. :nod:

I would offer to help but I haven’t the slightest idea how to recognize code, let alone write it.

I’m happy to cheer you on though. :yippee: :yippee: :yippee: [/B]

This should get you started!

The Java™ Tutorials

[Starfish]

Originally posted by riddlermarc
[B]barcode and Mincer are currently looking at resurrecting the TPR siggy counter, I believe ol’green ears is going to sort out the code and let barcode have a shufty.

I would do it but my problem is working out how to parse the XML data from the Team page - my parsing skills are a little rusty, if someone can help me with that I can certainly do the rest :nod:
[/B]

Which language are you using Marc?

[riddlermarc]

Originally posted by Starfish
Which language are you using Marc?
English

Sorry, couldn’t resist that one - ideally I’ll be using php but I can slum it and code in ASP on my home server then auto-upload the pages to the TPR server… can do both so I’m easy

[Starfish]

PHP ideally eh?

You’ll have an e-mail soon

[PMM]

Had a ickle look at this xml stuff, its blown my mind

Darn so many formats to XML, think i’ve worked out the
lifemapper stats are an ADO persisted XML file.

Too complex to get my head around, can just about cope
with parsing HTML.

[PMM]

Just holler if you want the PHP for HTML pull I use

It could be used to at least kick it off something before getting
some proper code in place.

It just needs some cleaver sod to split the prog into 2
make one part write out the data to file, then the second
half to read it back in to create the siggie counter.

The code pulls direct everytime at the mo, but if the elements
are split and say one set up as a cron job to run daily and
get the html stats.

The the second part will only get data off the hosting site and
serve up the siggie.

[Starfish]

PMM:

You have received an e-mail as well regarding the combination of PHP and XML.

It certainly has the potential to make your life a lot easier

edit: typo

[PMM]

Thx Starfish

Was starting to think that VB was the only way forward
which I know nowt about, I managed to get a few snippets
of PHP info that made things a ickle easier to understanding
ways to parse that type of XML format but not ideal as it
involved pre-proccessing and secondary processing.

So hopefully your Email maybe the key.

My PHP skills sux but i’m off work this week so I might have
a bit of time to have a play.

[PMM]

Certainly the right route Starfish

this is the output i’m getting at the mo after some basic
messing around…

www.brittech.co.uk/test3.php

[Starfish]

Looking good!

One tip that might also help:

Take a look at my data in the array for example:

$array[596][#] = “”
$array[596][@][ID] = “544”
$array[596][@][Name] = “Starfish”
$array[596][@][AddressWWW] = “http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/dist”
$array[596][@][TotCPUTime] = “2288486”
$array[596][@][JoinDate] = “2003-04-26T03:51:06.587000000”
$array[596][@][EMail] = “”
$array[596][@][TaxaComputed] = “575”
$array[596][@][NumOfJobs] = “821”
$array[596][@][Country] = “Netherlands”
$array[596][@][PrefCountry] = “Netherlands”
$array[596][@][CPUGroup] = “BBR Team Ecology”
$array[596][@][CPUGroupID] = “24”
$array[596][@][PrefDataProvider] = “Academia Sinica Institute of Zoology, Taipei, Taiwan.”
$array[596][@][GroupAddressWWW] = “http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/dist”
$array[596][@][PrefTaxonGroup] = “Fish”

I’m in the array in ‘slot’ 596… but I have a Lifemapper id of 544.

Especially when you’re going to store information in the database… it might be very handy to:

• Store my data using a row id of 544 in your database instead of using auto-increment

• Retrieve the array in such a way that you can access my member name like this

$array[544][@][Name] = “Starfish”

instead of

$array[596][@][Name] = “Starfish”

That way you can keep all the id’s for a certain user the same…making your life a lot easier!!

Example:

“Help: I need the name of the member with LM Id 544! How do I get it?”

Simple: $name = $array[544][@][Name];

instead of finding out that you need to access the name of the member with id 544 via array id 596 …

Besides/Also:

You can exchange data between database information of a user with $ID and the array[$ID][etc]

See where I’m going?

Once again I’d heavily recommend using that

<pre>;
print_r($array);
</pre>;

thing as well…gives a “treeview” of the array…so you can easily find out if you can still start one level “deeper” or not

[riddlermarc]

Cheers starfish, I can’t read your email till I get to work tomorrow but it does sound pretty interesting.

My personal SETI counter pulls my info from the berkeley XML personal pages on an hourly basis and writes it to a database. I’m definitely planning to push the XML data for LM to a database and interrogate it further from there

I’ll let you know how I get on!

[Starfish]

Originally posted by riddlermarc
Cheers starfish, I can’t read your email till I get to work tomorrow but it does sound pretty interesting.

You’re welcome

I think the e-mail will help get you started as well…and I’ve got no problems at all giving some advice to other teams.

Originally posted by riddlermarc
[B]
My personal SETI counter pulls my info from the berkeley XML personal pages on an hourly basis and writes it to a database. I’m definitely planning to push the XML data for LM to a database and interrogate it further from there

[/B]

That would be the way to go I think.

I don’t think it’s good for the LM project if every hit of each sig. counter downloads a 700K (or so) XML source :flip:

Originally posted by riddlermarc

I’ll let you know how I get on!

I’m looking forward to see the creations of TPR

BTW:

Sorry if I use too much smilies every now and then… I just love some of those available… and BBR has a somewhat different set :rotate: