Huntey Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Hi everybody, I am trying to do a couple of things using an online datafeed. Parse the data file and determine a way of getting only information from the CLIENTS section and determining if theyre connected as ATC or Pilot So, lets say the datafeed is www.datafeed.com/data.txt to simply things. This datafile has information about the network. The network is in this case a place where people can connect using flight simulator to be a pilot, or a different program to be an Air Traffic Controller. Then pilots and controllers can see and interact. The datafile has information about the different servers available on the network, and the clients (the section we need to get) connected to the network. This is a quote from the datafile. ; Sections are: ; !GENERAL contains general settings ; !CLIENTS contains informations about all connected clients ; !PREFILE contains informations about all prefiled flight plans ; !SERVERS contains a list of all FSD running servers to which clients can connect That is the sections included in the datafile - the clients section is what we need to get. !CLIENTS: username:memberID:John Smith:PILOT::49.85923:4.50782:4242:140::0::::Server 1:100:1:7000::::::::::::::::::::20111203153935:331:29.681:1005: username:memberID:Harry Potter:ATC:119.000:54.73228:60.61887:0:::0::::Server 1:100:1::0:150:::::::::::::::::20111203154912:20111203151850:::: this is an extract of the clients section, its basicly got loads of these, you can see that all fields are seperated by a : - it goes username, followed by the clients unique ID, followed by there name, then if they are connected as ATC or Pilot, then the rest of the data is of no interest to us as its co-ordinates etc. So, my first task is to get the clients section, I have done this by making a .php file on my server named datagrab.php (my server is seperate the the server hosting the datafeed.) and in datagrab I put: <html> <body> <?php list(, $clients) = explode('CLIENTS:', file_get_contents('http://www.datafeed.com/data.txt')); echo $clients ?> </body> </html> and it has successfully displayed only the clients. I dont know if there is a better way of doing this? So having that I know need to add something to that page, or make a new page and include or use that file to determine if the client is connected as ATC or PILOT. Look at the quote above to see where it tells you if they're a ATC or PILOT. Does anybody have any ideas on how I can do this? thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ngreenwood6 Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Looking at the data that you posted it seems to me that this will accomplish what you are trying to do giving you all of the information: //get the data $data = file_get_contents('http://www.datafeed.com/data.txt'); //first of all explode them on new lines to get all of the info $lines = explode("\r\n",$data); // you must use double quotes and it might just need to be \r or just \n test it until you get a full array of all the lines as there own entry //setup a holder for the type of data you are getting - (general, clients, prefile, servers) $type = ''; //setup a holder for all of the data $content = array(); //go through each line and explode the data if(is_array($lines)){ foreach($lines as $line){ //setup holder for line data $line_data = explode(':',$line); //check to make sure there is data if(is_array($line_data)){ //if there is only one item it is a type so change the type and continue if(count($line_data) == 1){ $type = $line_data[0]; } else { $content[$type][] = $line_data; } } else { continue; } } } //now you can print out the data to make sure that you have it in the way you need print_r($content); When you run this code it should give you back a multi-dimensional array with the type of data as the key for the array and all of the fields with numeric indexes based on there position. Here is an ex. [!GENERAL] [0] => [some data] [!CLIENTS] [0] => array() [0] => username [1] => memberID [2] => John Smith [3] => PILOT [2] => array() [0] => username [1] => memberID [2] => Harry Potter [3] => ATC So you can then just do a loop on the data that you need and check its type if(is_array($content['!CLIENTS'])){ foreach($content['!CLIENTS'] as $client){ if($client[3] == 'PILOT'){ //do something here } } } Hopefully that is not too confusing and will solve your problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huntey Posted December 3, 2011 Author Share Posted December 3, 2011 ngreenwood6 thanks a lot! I almost got there but there's a problem with the Loop (most likely the way im doing it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huntey Posted December 4, 2011 Author Share Posted December 4, 2011 Has anybody else got any ideas to fix the error shown above? Much appreciated guys - Leon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huntey Posted December 4, 2011 Author Share Posted December 4, 2011 Ok so I'm now using this: //get the data $data = file_get_contents('http://www.datafeed.com/data.txt'); //first of all explode them on new lines to get all of the info $lines = explode("CLIENTS:",$data); // you must use double quotes and it might just need to be \r or just \n test it until you get a full array of all the lines as there own entry explode("\r\n",$data); //setup a holder for the type of data you are getting - (general, clients, prefile, servers) $type = 'CLIENTS:'; //setup a holder for all of the data $content = array(); //go through each line and explode the data if(is_array($lines)){ foreach($lines as $line){ //setup holder for line data $line_data = explode(':',$line); //check to make sure there is data if(is_array($line_data)){ //if there is only one item it is a type so change the type and continue if(count($line_data) == 1){ $type = $line_data[0]; } else { $content[$type][] = $line_data; } } else { continue; } } } //now you can print out the data to make sure that you have it in the way you need print_r($line_data) and it seems to have all worked except on the array, the numbers dont reset for each connected client it counts all the way from 0 - 24483. How can I correct this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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