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I see all these scripts that parse the log for information written in PHP and then inturn displayed on a webpage....but how does it work if your Game server and Web Server are on two different boxes

I used to have this type of thing setup on my Minecraft server where my webpage displayed the names and number of users but I used a MySQL server to bridge the two where the minecraft plugins would write the data to a MySQL database and then I'd have some PHP action on my website reading the data from the MySQL database.

Is this possible right now?

 

you can write a cron that inserts data in a database, so you could retrieve it on the other end. or the log file must be placed in a share and then can be accessed on the other server

 

im working on this, adding information in database, and easily wipe logs with it

 

It's cool ...
But my knowledge of php too weak = (

How to get remote access to the server through php?

 

For the server status you can just put your ip and port, but for the analysis of the logs, you have 2 posibility.
Using a bash which copy your logs server to your website server, or a script ta put in databse the information

 

or if you have two vps's you can create a virtual private network and share the file

 

Shame you aren't doing it in Python

 

Please no php is better

 

Phython you say?!?! Here ya go give this a look over.

 

I'm trying to make a access to the chat log but for some reason it doesn't work

PHP:

// extract chat
$chat = array();
foreach ($logClients as $line) {
    if (preg_match('/<([0-9a-zA-Z-\s]*)>\s+([a-z].*)/i', $line, $matches) == 1) {
        if (strlen($matches[1])) {
            $clients[$matches[1]] = trim($matches[2]);
        }
    }
}

Any help ?

 

After this new patch the PHP code for players connected/online don't work anymore the one nithlon made.

 

You can find updated tools, written in Python here. [Github Link] This will give you a list of connected users, and their I.P. Address, it is working with the latest release, Offended Koala.

 

can this be placed on my website as a php file?

 

When running it i keep getting

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Python27/Lib/who", line 104, in <module>
main()
File "C:/Python27/Lib/who", line 33, in main
with open(STARBOUND_LOGFILE, 'r') as log:
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Steam\\SteamApps\\common\\Starbound'

 

You will want to move your starbound directory out of the default location. Program Files\~ is a protected path in windows. You could run the script as administrator, but that is never smart ;p

I use: C:\Steam\Steamapps\common\Starbound\starbound_server.log - as my Starbound directory path.

The script is looking for the server.log file, and it can't read it at your current files path.

 

Change this code:

PHP:

// only keep lines with client info
$logClients = array_filter($logLines, function($line) {
    return preg_match('/^Info:.*<User/', $line);
});

// extract clients
$clients = array();
foreach ($logClients as $line) {
    if (preg_match('/<User: ([0-9a-zA-Z-\s]*)>\s+([a-z].*)/i', $line, $matches) == 1) {
        if (strlen($matches[1])) {
            $clients[$matches[1]] = trim($matches[2]);
        }
    }
}

To:

PHP:

// only keep lines with client info
$logClients = array_filter($logLines, function($line) {
    return preg_match('/^Info:.*Client/', $line);
});

// extract clients
$clients = array();
foreach ($logClients as $line) {
    if (preg_match('/.*?\\\'(.*)\\\'.*?\(.*?\)(.*)/i', $line, $matches) == 1) {
        if (strlen($matches[1])) {
            $clients[$matches[1]] = trim($matches[2]);
        }
    }
}

 

Now we talking thanks Ripe! appreciate it, i never get how that python works, php is so easier and nicer

 

Also something I've noticed is that script lacks is encoding.

Believe it or not I can set my name to this and the status page will run that piece of code.


Just change:

PHP:

<?php echo $client; ?>

To:

PHP:

<?php echo htmlentities($client); ?>

It's better we fix this now before these scripts become popular.

 

Say, Ripe... If I wanted to change not Daniel's but MeuhMeuh's file, should it look like this?
(I haven't had time to run the server and check the logs, doing this blind, am most likely mistaken)

PHP:

if(preg_match("%Info: (.*) Client'([0-9a-zA-Z\s]*)>%i", $line, $val)){


Given that he started it with a " and not a ', it should work, right?

 

was there an update?