For those of you with TI websites...

[benryves]

Here's a PHP script you might find useful!

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<script language="php">
$handle = @fopen("http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/authors/62/6296.html","r");
$buffer = '';
$curPos = 0;
if (!$handle) {
	echo ("Could not connect to ticalc.org!");
} else {
	global $buffer, $curPos;
	while (!feof ($handle)) { 
		$buffer .= fgets($handle, 4096);
	}
	fclose($handle);
	
	$rankBusiness = getBetweenText('Ranked number ',' in our ');
	$rankBusinessCount = getBetweenText(' of busiest authors with ',' files.');
	$rankAllTime = getBetweenText('Ranked number ',' in our ');
	$rankAllTimeCount = getBetweenText(' authors all time with ',' downloads.');
	$rankWeek = getBetweenText('Ranked number ',' in our ');
	$rankWeekCount = getBetweenText(' seven days with ',' downloads.');
	
	echo "Total downloads: $rankAllTimeCount (Ranked #$rankAllTime)<br />";
	echo "Downloads this week: $rankWeekCount (Ranked #$rankWeek)<br />";
	echo "Overall business: Ranked $rankBusiness with $rankBusinessCount files.<hr />";
	
	$colours = array("#BCCCFF","#FFF9C7");
	$colourIndex = 0;
	
	while (1) {
		$url = getBetweenText('<A HREF="/archives/files/fileinfo/','"><');
		if ($url===false) break;
		
		$url = "http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/".$url;
		
		$name = getBetweenText("<TD class=t1 VALIGN=\"TOP\">\n","\n</TD>");
		$group = getBetweenText("<TD class=t1 VALIGN=\"TOP\">\n","\n</TD>");
		
		echo "<table bgcolor=\"$colours[$colourIndex]\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"><tr><td><a href=\"{$url}\" target=\"_blank\">$name</a></td><td align=\"right\">$group</td></tr></table>";
		$colourIndex = 1-$colourIndex;
	}

}

function getBetweenText($before, $after) {
	global $buffer, $curPos;
	$curPos = strpos($buffer, $before, $curPos);
	if ($curPos===false) {
		return false;
	} else {
		$curPos+=strlen($before);
		$e = strpos($buffer, $after, $curPos);
		return substr($buffer, $curPos, $e-$curPos);
	}
}


</script>

You can see it in action on my website. Maybe someone finds it useful. Just change the URL at the top with the URL of your author page!

I did have a version that grabs all the stats for each individual program, but at that point it starts to get a bit slow![/url]

[tr1p1ea]

Hey thats really cool ben! ... this will come in handy .

[benryves]

Hey thats really cool ben! ... this will come in handy .

Thanks - not the best code for sharing, but it's very simple and adds a nice functionality.

[Madskillz]

very cool Ben!

[Kozak]

It would be a nice idea to cache the results so you won't have to check ticalc every time the page loads. With much visitors it can get slow. Also you should check if allow_url_fopen is allowed so you can give more detailed error report if the script fails. It's a nice scripts nonetheless.

[CoBB]

Actually it's enough to update the data once every day.