Returning Game Status retrieving game status

[HmmZ 0]

I'm currently making a fansite for a game thats coming out soon and im wondering how I can show the game status:
Meaning..is the game down? or is the game up?

I of course don't have access to their servers and I have no IP whatsoever, Im very sure they won't give out much info on their servers either, because their current game (GunBound) is getting hacked like crazy, releasing server info might cause problems for both me and Softnyx

At the moment I have only the forum status (wich is pretty easy), and a n/a image on my Game Status.

Is there a possibility to get their game status by contacting the game in another way? or is there a way to get it with minimum info of the gameservers?

The game im talking about is Rakion
My fansite is located at:
online.trap17.com

Thanks in advance

[HmmZ 0]

Damnit, I just found out that IE(6) doesnt show the images from my if statements? anyone can help me on that too?

<table bgcolor="#440000" cellspacing="0" width="270" height="175" border="0" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 1000px; background-image: url('http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ align="left"><?phpif(!mysql_connect(localhost, ***, ***)){?><img src="http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/; border="0" width="176" height="1" style="position: absolute; top: 42px; left: 1000px;"><img src="http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/; border="0" style="position: absolute; top: 42px; left: 1176px;"><?}else {?><img src="http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/; border="0" width="176" height="1" style="position: absolute; top: 42px; left: 1000px;"><img src="http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/; border="0" style="position: absolute; top: 42px; left: 1176px;"><?}?></td></tr></table>

ANY help would be appreciated =/

(It does show the images in Firefox...so i don't understand >.<)

[Newton 0]

Does the official game site show the server status? If yes, you could just ask them for permission to show game status. If you can't, ask around on their forums and all, people generally know how to get that kinda info.

On your image problem, try changing the image url to http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/.... , just remove the www part.

[HmmZ 0]

No the game doesnt show their game status, and their forums are a chaos..ill try writing an e-mail to them...as for the image suggestion..it seems it doesnt work =/. Any other ideas?

[HmmZ 0]

No the game doesnt show their game status, and their forums are a chaos..ill try writing an e-mail to them...

 

as for the image suggestion..it seems it doesnt work =/. Any other ideas?

135937[/snapback]

forget the image part...it works..just gotta screw around with the position >.>

when i set absolute: left: 0px, it shows perfect in ie, but in mozilla its screwed up

[Newton 0]

Shouldn't your mysql_connect statement have 'localhost' instead of localhost?! (Notice the ')

[HmmZ 0]

No need for that...and besides..its functioning fine as it is...i wrote an e-mail to the game staff concerning the game status..hopefully i will get a good answer from them ^^

[beeseven 0]

As for the images, if you're going to close the PHP tags and do other stuff I'm relatively certain you need a colon ( instead of braces ({})

<?phpif($x == 1):?>something...something...<?phpelse:?>something...something...<?phpendif;?>

[HmmZ 0]

No, IF statements open with {} and not with ().

The ()is used for a detailed if statement

if($session==false){ //what will happen if the statement is false }

[beeseven 0]

That's not what I said. I said that if you're going to close the php tag in the middle of an if statement, use a colon and endif instead of brackets.

[HmmZ 0]

It works fine as it is

Anyway..closing the php code is easier for me to use html to get tables and such done...instead of using:

echo/print "<table border=\"0\" width=\"400\" etc..>";

Just works easier and it works :/

[mobious 0]

and it would be much easier if you would use a template system and completely seperate your html tags from your php codes.