PHP function to handle nickname colors/formatting?

[slugish]

I am working on a script to display players in my servers on my site. I want to display players by nickname, but am stuck with converting names. I would prefer to display nicks using the same color and formatting rules as maniaplanet, but I would settle for a function to strip away formatting and display standard text. I am by no means a php pro, so I would love to avoid coding this from scratch if someone else has already done so. Does anyone have this already?

[RamCUP2000]

This is still exist and is compatible with MP
http://fish.stabb.de/index.php5?page=do ... ubpage=127

[The_Big_Boo]

You can also check out our ManiaLib classes which we're using in all our projects.
- Formatting: to strip colors, links and other formatting from the string
- StyleParser: a full rework of class given in previous post, which handles formatting as closest to the game as possible and correct a few bugs. You can see the result on the player page for instance.
- Color: mandatory for these classes to work, used to contrast colors.

[slugish]

Sweet... that should be able to handle what I need. Thanks!

Now, this actually confuses me somewhat... What is the difference between Manialib and Maniaplanet Web Services?

[The_Big_Boo]

ManiaLib is a lightweight framework to create Manialinks (and web pages) following MVC paradigm, like Zend or Symfony (to take PHP examples).
Maniaplanet Web Services are, well, web services ^^ So they are only useful to request data about players, rankings, ... to send notifications, to make transactions and this kind of thing but it won't handle any UI at all.

[magnetik]

You can also use JavaScript to parse maniaplanet style.

Take a look at http://magnetik.github.com/maniaplanet-style-js-parser/


it's far from being perfect but still quite usable.

I'll publish a jQuery plugin to make the use easier during the week.

[slugish]

This is still exist and is compatible with MP
http://fish.stabb.de/index.php5?page=do ... ubpage=127

Edit: Okay, so the below was after I had tested the script as simply a php file. If I open that file, the below is what shows up. However, if I embed that file in an iframe on my wordpress site, the unicode displays correctly. I have no idea how or why that works, but apparently I have it working now...

I have this working and it handles the colors/formatting great, but it appears to have some trouble with alt code/unicode. Is this an issue with the script, or is this perhaps related to the server I have it running on? Here is an example, I am using the script to parse both the server name and player names. The bottom right corner is an overlay of the page that I have the script running on.

[steppie]

Your output page need to encode UTF-8 to show special characters

This should do the trick.

Code: Select all

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

[niarfman]

Don't forget to write your file with utf8 character encoding, in case you want to display some special chars too.

This is possible with an editor like notepad++ (Menu: "Encoding"=>Convert to UTF-8).

Player list is already in UTF8 and will be displayed well with the line given by steppie.

Also I have a question in relation with this topic : Does Manialive include specifics fonts used in the game or should we use TAHOMA as usual with Tm ?

[magnetik]

There are no font included.