Whenever some1 say something in a game, it ends up in the console log.. This log can be used by external applications/scripts BUT
(same goes for the msgs from server if you connect via sockets etc.)
When parsing a string you need to split it.. Doing this can be quite hard unless you have some sort of syntax..
The Soldat one is "[nick] msg" But as you can aslo have ]/[ in the nick itself.. This is not a very good way to do this :/

My suggestion is that the msgs should be foramtted in a better way for parsing.. like I dunno.. spilt up by chrs with ascii value 1 (
) and restrict nicks from containing it..

making the server send out in the syntax
Nick
Msg wouldnt be to hard I reckon.. and just let the clients parse it..

anyways It would be grate..

/me puts on FlameSuit..

j00 spelled GREAT RONGG!!!1!111

good idea though. It doesn't really affect much but it would be good.

Mmm, it's kinda useless, check http://dyn.u13.net:6080/saidwhat.php . Our hero FliesLikeABrick could manage to to filter the names that contain [ ]...So it's not thaaaaaat necesary...

Hmmm.. Thx for pointing that out :) I'ma talk to flies !

the console log is pretty easy to parse, you just have to think about it for a second :P. If you want to see how i parse it, look in the u13sss update script, although that doesn't parse it looking for lines of chat. the code is short, so i will enlighten you with it here rather than paste it on IRC and get the boot for flood:

$lognumber=1;

$logfolder= 'logs';
$filenumber=$lognumber;
$filename=$logfolder.'ConsoleLog-'.$filenumber.'.txt';

//UPDATE CONSOLELOG STATS

while(file_exists($filename)) {
$content=file($filename);
$lines=count($content);
for ($i=0;$i<$lines;$i++) {
if (strstr($content[$i],"] ") && strstr($content[$i]," [")) {
$linelength=strlen($content[$i]);
$end=$linelength-(strpos($content[$i],"] "));
$start=strpos($content[$i],'] ')+2;
$length=($linelength)-($end)-(18);
$name=substr($content[$i],$start);
$name=str_replace("(1)","", $name);
$name=str_replace("(2)","", $name);
$name=addslashes(str_replace("(3)","", $name));
$name=trim($name);

if($name!='') {

$query="select hits from saywhat where comment='$name' limit 1";
$result=mysql_query($query);
$row=mysql_fetch_array($result);
$count=mysql_num_rows($result);
if(!$count)
$query="insert into saywhat (hits,comment) values ('1','$name')";
else
$query="update saywhat set hits=hits+1 where comment='$name' limit 1";

mysql_query($query);
}
flush();
}

}
$lognumber+=1;

$logfolder= 'c:\\soldat\\logs\\';
$filenumber=$lognumber;
$filename=$logfolder.'ConsoleLog-'.$filenumber.'.txt';
echo "file number $filenumber added<br>";
flush();
}


Edit: Also, there is a slightly better way to do this. This way tends to get confused when someone has [ and ] in their name, so it would be best to throw something else in there that has it use the last occurance of ] from the right end of the string (if it finds more than oen occurance of ] in the string)

hehe, Thats bout what I got now.. Only thing is that I need the nick.. and I need it to be complete.. anyways I'll just use whole [nick] in my matchings.. (with the nick enclosed in []) as its less likely that ppl use a [ or ] in the msg itself then in the nicks :) Thx alot Flies !

as for parsing it for flag/join/part/grab/return/other stats, look at the algorithm in U13SSS. I am about to release another U13SSS which has a much more optimized parsing algorithm, since the original one was written when i was something of a php newb a year and a half ago

Smart boy, neat code...

What is the flush() for?

flush() flushes the output buffer and sends any residing text to the client without waiting for the buffer to fill