Display High Scores from the web

#1 You should get a callback called "onLine" that will provide the return results. You can parse this for the return results and then place the result in a (*shudder*) t2dTextObject.

You'll probably want to use a different first word in your PHP file so that you can tell the difference between an upload and a download. (Or you can use a different class name that has its own code for "onLine".)

#2 Thanks for the reply. I managed to retrieve some info from the web but when I do echo (%line) i get all this info:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:28:20 GMT
Server: Apache
Cache-Control: no-store, must-revalidate, max-age=0, proxy-revalidate, no-transform
Expires: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:28:20 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html
X-Cache: MISS from demil1.byetcluster.com
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Via: 1.1 demil1.byetcluster.com:80 (Lusca/LUSCA_HEAD)

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The data I want to use is in the second last line (4). How do I get this as and use it in TGB.

#3

%wordCount = getWordCount(%line);
%myData = getWord(%line, %wordCount-1);

#4 Wow that was a quick reply, thanks. I tried your method but it didnt work as each line is seperate line hence the wordcount returns the number of words in each line. After revisitng Willliams suggestion here is what i did.

1. In my php script I updated my echo line to echo ("Current HighScore is $thishighscore").
2. Then in my tgb script i did the following:

function TCPScoreReciever::onLine(%this, %line)
{
  if(firstWord(%line) $= "Current")
  {
    %myData = getWord(%line, 3);
    echo (%mydata); 
  }
}

#5 I've been toying with the idea of building a "high scores" service for game devs. It would provide an API that could be called from the game as well as the web. Would you find this useful, and if so, what kinds of features would you be looking for?

Thanks
-Joe