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Can anyone pinpoint me to a guide on how to make a h3 stats sig generator. that grabs your rank and emblem?

Or just giving the base files (.php) would be nice also!

Thanks.

You'll have to understand how to use the RSS Feed.
(k, Tural pointed me wrong)

I do.

Actually, the RSS has nothing to do with what you're looking for.

Well then this -

Can anyone pinpoint me to a guide on how to make a h3 stats sig generator. that grabs your rank and emblem?

Or just giving the base files (.php) would be nice also!

Thanks.

There isn't a guide.

I thought the RSS Feed was so you could get the most recent data?

There's only one RSS feed, and it is for most recent game played. It has nothing to do with any other statistics. It tells you the latest map that player was on.

Ahh, now I understand. +1zing for Tural.

All the sites boasting stat generators have been given special access to the data by bungie (from the sites ive seen anyways).

Write to bungie or something if you want access to their resources.

Anthony was not granted any special access. It is all done completely from the page you can publicly access on Bungie.net.

You can periodically scrape Bungie's public RSS feeds and html pages using PHP[5]'s SimpleXML class and/or regular expressions. Once you have your nice mash up of the data you need you can then output it using the php GD library provided by most host. Make sure to cache your final image so your not making unnecessary request to Bungie's server.

too bad their rss feeds only have the recent games

Anthony wrote:too bad their rss feeds only have the recent games

Yea but thats the reason for the expression matching in the html source =p

I could supply a PHP script to get the information from the Bungie.net service record. However, I don't know how to do the image generation.

On second thought, I'll help as well, but I don't intend to supply a full source for it.

Im not going to supply anything, if you have a specific question ask it.

It sounds like you just want everything handed to you, sounds like Tural is willing to do that for ya though

i would really also like a tutorial on how to do this, it would be very nice
thanks

We don't have any intention of giving a tutorial. It isn't a project for just anyone to jump into. If you have PHP knowledge, you should be capable of working with this sort of thing. If there is a specific question, we can help.

You can use a graber script, (I forgot what's its actually called) But it reads the script of the page, (Using PHP) and displays it on an image. But to make it be an image, I think you would have to use Javascript.

No. The PHP GD library functions are far superior to any code Javascript could even begin to handle.