We have created a server query script to make it easy to add current information on your server's status to your website. We now also use this script on the status page in the control panel.
To take advantage of our script yourself, simply add code like the following to a webpage that we host:
Code:
<iframe src="http://rentals.nuclearfallout.net/query/stat.pl?id=chernobyl" width=400 height=600 frameborder=0 />
You would need to replace the value of "id" with your server's identifier (your login name for the control panel). That code there would produce
this output.
You can also customize the output to match your site, because every part of the page the script generates can be controlled by a stylesheet. The default stylesheet is
here -- you can right-click and select "Save As" to save it to your hard drive. After editing it, upload the file to your webspace. You can specify the customized stylesheet when you call our script by using the "style" parameter. For instance, if I were to create my own stylesheet named "white.css" and upload it to my webspace, I could use this in my webpage instead of what was given above:
Code:
<iframe src="http://rentals.nuclearfallout.net/query/stat.pl?id=chernobyl&style=white" width=400 height=600 frameborder=0 />
In fact, I did copy default.css to a new file, white.css, and changed the background color to white, got rid of the server information block and player list heading, changed some colors, altered the spacing in the player table, and doubled the image size, all by editing that file. The resulting stylesheet is
here and would give
this output.
You can even get rid of everything but a couple of lines if you want, to fit just the essentials in a small spot on your site. For example,
this, which uses my
minimal.css stylesheet.
This site provides more information on iframe options (such as specifying the width and height, or taking away the scrollbar). You could also use a
standard frame instead of an iframe, if you prefer.
Advanced users may prefer to retrieve the status information via a script and embed it directly into their page, instead of bothering with frames. For example, this short Perl script would do that:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;
print qq|
Content-type: text/html
<html>
<head>
<title>Example script with server status inclusion</title>
</head>
<body>
This is Chernobyl's server status:<p />
|;
getprint "http://rentals.nuclearfallout.net/query/stat.pl?id=chernobyl&style=white&no-body=1";
print "<p /><i>Copyright (c) 2003 Nuclearfallout Enterprises, Inc.</i>";
That script's output would look something like
this.
You'll note that in the code fragment we used another parameter -- "no-body". A "1" for that parameter indicates to our query script that no <body> tag should be included in the page output, and it is needed because placing two body tags in one document can be unnecessary and problematic.
A PHP version of that script would look like this:
Code:
<html>
<head>
<title>Example script with server status inclusion</title>
</head>
<body>
This is Chernobyl's server status:<p />
<?php
echo(implode("", file("http://rentals.nuclearfallout.net/query/stat.pl?id=chernobyl&style=white&no-body=1")));
?>
<p /><i>Copyright (c) 2003 Nuclearfallout Enterprises, Inc.</i>
And would give
the same output.
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