Getting level stats from another website HELP!

[respiant]

Hi.

 

I'm making a memberlist for my legion at the online game "Aion".

I wanted to find the stats for each member, and yes it worked perfectly, but it took some time for the page to load up..

 

Take a look at this code:

 

<?php

//The $userdata['character'] is from mysql but let's just set it manually..

$userdata['character'] = "Respiant";

$text = file_get_contents('http://uk.aiononline.com/characters/Perento/'. $userdata['character']);

$nr = 9;

do 
{
$searchfor = '<span class="name"><span>Lv.</span> <em>'. $nr .'</em>';
$pos = strpos($text, $searchfor);

if ($pos == true) {
	$stat = $nr;
	$nr = 51;

}
else
{
	$nr++;
}
}
while ($nr < 51);

if ($pos != true){
$stat = "<b>Below 10</b>";
}


// Okay, on the memberlist it will now say "27" under level on the user "Respiant". Let's just echo it here..

echo "My level is now: <b>". $stat."</b>";

?>

 

This code goes to http://uk.aiononline.com/characters/Perento/Respiant, reads the sourcecode of the page and is looking for "<span class="name"><span>Lv.</span> <em>" with a number behind, and it stopped when it reached: <span class="name"><span>Lv.</span> <em>27      because I'm level 27. then it made the variable $stat with 27.

 

Is there any better way to do this so the page would load up faster?

 

Please help!

[awjudd]

I would run that script to download stats as a cron job and then store the results in a local database or flat file.

 

I say this because each time the user visits the page, your server is currently putting in the request to the other site which will end up throttling you and use extra bandwidth.

 

~juddster

[ignace]

libxml_use_internal_errors(true);

$dom = new DomDocument();
if ($dom->loadHtml('http://uk.aiononline.com/characters/Perento/' . $userdata['character'])) {
  $xpath = new DomXPath($dom);
  foreach ($xpath->query('//ul[@class="status"]/li') as $node) {
    echo $node->childNodes[0]->nodeValue, ': ', $node->childNodes[1]->nodeValue, "<br>\n"; //HP: 1795 (+256)  
  }
}

[respiant]

Now I send all the levels to a mysql database after each update.

The site loads really fast up, and they have an option to "update levels" when they want, and they can also see the last update date and time, so I'm happy