Is there a way to call the rank of a game from the hub?

ID:166586
 
Jul 18 2006, 11:32 am
If so, what variable?

Thanks.
Jul 18 2006, 3:28 pm
No, but with world.Export() you can achieve getting it. I have something like that in Paint, here is a snippet:

var/rank
world/New()
    var/http[]=world.Export("http://games.byond.com/hub/XxDohxX/Paint;format=text")
    if(http)
        var/X=http["CONTENT"]
        if(X)
            var/text = file2text(X)
            rank = copytext(text,findtext(text,"byond_rank = "),findtext(text,"status"))
            rank = dd_replacetext(rank,"byond_rank = ","")
            rank = text2num(rank)



Of course you would have to change, XxDohxX/Paint. Hope that helps.
-Doh
Jul 19 2006, 11:14 am
In response to XxDohxX
XxDohxX wrote:
> var/rank
> world/New()
>   var/http[]=world.Export("http://games.byond.com/hub/XxDohxX/Paint;format=text")
>   if(http)
>       var/X=http["CONTENT"]
>       if(X)
>           var/text = file2text(X)
>           rank = copytext(text,findtext(text,"byond_rank = "),findtext(text,"status"))
>           rank = dd_replacetext(rank,"byond_rank = ","")
>           rank = text2num(rank)


The copy/find/replacetext method is prone to error if the line ordering ever changes. It also requires an external library (though a quite good one!). The hub text format is already a savefile, so simply treat it as such:

#define BYONDHUB "http://www.byond.com/hub/"
proc/GetHubRank(game)
    var/http[] = world.Export("[BYONDHUB][game];format=text")
    var/result = http["CONTENT"]
    if (result)
        var/rank
        var/savefile/s = new
        s.ImportText("/", file2text(result))
        s["/general/byond_rank"] >> rank
        return rank

mob/verb/getrank(game as text)
    src << "Rank for [game]: [GetHubRank(game)]
Jul 20 2006, 9:00 am
In response to Mike H
Thanks a ton, guys.