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Well cookies n' milk just suggested swfuploader.. I haven't tried it yet but you could give it a shot for yours.
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o.O I'm extremly excited... So I got the php script working to get the path info stuff when steam trys to download a file and it's working out pretty well so far... also, and this is the exciting part, I am able to determine the server it comes from, so that means I can do a blacklist (ban servers) or a whitelist (registration). I kinda like the idea of registration required so there can be a count of the amount of servers using it and a server list and stuff... maybe some detailed stats about map downloads and which servers have downloads on what maps.. etc. If there are any php programmers out there that would be intrested in working on a stats script (just pulling info from a mysql database), that would probably be the one portion of this I wouldn't need to do myself...
and if i decide to require registration (really leaning towards this now) I am thinking to have it so when you enter your server address it will check to see which game and save that info, so every server game type can use the same downloadurl and the script will automatically determine which game files to look at based on the saved record, fun fun!
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I left to have lunch and came back and my site had a 500 error.. that got fixed (it was a problem with their server).. I took another break and came back and my site was suspended. Apparently I did something completely unrelated that messed up their stuff, heh.. Anyway.. so the download portion of the scripts are done.. I'm tweaking swfuploader (I love this, thanks!) to do the few extra file verifications I need then the upload will be done.. I'm setting up a members area via htaccess so I can have an entire protected directory instead of worrying about protecting every single file... So after I'm done with the uploader I can write a quick registration script and I'll be ready for the first beta.. not bad for 3 days work huh..
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Wow you are turbocharged!
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Wow their server went down AGAIN.. this time they said it won't be up for 2 hours.. I've had this site since sunday and it's gone down twice that I've noticed... I hope it's just some temporary problems they are having because that sure won't work for this fast download things...
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Progress update: (before I had to stop due to no server to work on)
Created the members area, different levels of users (high enough would go to admin) so that if I add special things later that aren't for everyone I can do it by user level... plus admin menu for things like deleting files off the server and banning servers/accounts. Created a "beta keys" system so i can distribute a unique key to beta testers to allow them to register themselves and me not manually adding them to a database.
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03-15-2008, 01:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-15-2008, 01:16 PM by gncmatt.)
OK... the uploader stuff didn't end up working because my host had the http upload file limit set to 2MB.. not big enough for most maps.. after hours of arguing with tech support they raised it to 10MB but that still isn't enough.. so I scrapped the whole web uploader idea and went with ftp.. ftp is probably better anyway...
EVERYTHING is done except for adding a server to your account (important but still, just 1 thing left).
... I didn't get as many beta testers lined up as I had hoped... anyone have any suggestions on where I can post about this?
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03-16-2008, 06:02 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-16-2008, 06:05 AM by gncmatt.)
I may consider it if these people screw me again, thanks for the offer.. you got the bandwidth to support that?
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Oh yea and I finished writing the functions that can do the game server stuff I wanted, just writing the front end right now and I'll be done! Hopefully I will be done today. Whoever is registered on my forum when I'm done will get a beta key via PM.
And I dropped the "source" stuff in the name so it's just called Matt's Files now.
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03-16-2008, 09:24 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-16-2008, 10:01 AM by gncmatt.)
This server has a lot more then that... I guess we should put it out there then see how much it really ends up using. I should be done within the next few minutes... Debugging some last minute things I found and making some minor tweaks... I'll let you know when I sent out the beta keys.
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Few minutes got extended a bit, there was some stuff I forgot to do, but I WILL be done today.
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All Done! I sent the beta keys to the PM on my forum. Plus 2 extra each if you want to let someone else try it.
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Bump to avoid being Purged.
I like this idea hmm my clan will need this.
I could get a mirror probably
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this looks like an AWESOME idea!! this will be awesome if it gets running.
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