But the next step is making the actual scores presentable. Just putting a link up to a png file makes it look uninteresting, unprofessional, ragged.. But wrap it in some html code, put up a top intro file/panel/graphic/whatever, add a background, and then put the actual png files in a table and border, and here's what can happen:
This is for the game Usurper, and I'm not sure if it's the final design, but it looks a whole lot better than where it started at.
Let me know what you think..
*For those of you who do now know what this is, it's my attempt to bring the score files from ANSI door games, on a second server, to the web page of my main worldgroup server.
The few synchronet sites I've seen this done on all use PHP and other web scripts. I've been able to do it with just ansi2png and some batch files. Every time some one exits a door game, I have the cleanup command on synchronet run a batch file that converts the newly written score file to png.
The only disadvantage I see from doing it this way rather than doing from a php server is if a door isn't used much, and when the door does its maintenance, cleans out/deletes old user_ids, etc then there won't be a newly converted png file to show for the online scoreboard, or if there are npcs that play on a nightly maintenance program, again, on a door that isn't played often. Otherwise, this keeps the scores up to date automatically.
Not even a php script can run the correct scoreboard on a door game that doesn't get played a lot or doesn't have a nightly cleanup account to delete inactive accounts and such off of the score files.
