Halo 3 Service Record WordPress Plugin
This plugin allows you to add information from your Halo 3 Service Record to your WordPress blog.
The plugin displays your emblem, rank and grade, but with a little editing it could also display total the total number of games played, the date and time of the last game played, and any other information on the Halo 3 Service Record page at Bungie.net.
Installation
The download includes:
- ardamis-halo3.php (put this in your /plugins/ directory)
- halo3stats.css (copy and paste the contents into your theme’s style.css)
The plugin attempts to create a text file (halo3_cache_YOURTAG.txt) for use as a cache in your blog’s root folder automatically. Some server configurations may not permit the plugin to create this file and you’ll see resultant errors; in this case, you may have to manually create a file with that name and upload it to your blog’s root (and perhaps set permissions).
Usage
The plugin accepts one argument: your gamertag.
Insert the code:
<?php if (function_exists('ardamis_halo3')) ardamis_halo3('YOURTAG'); ?>into a template file wherever you want the Service Record to appear, replacing YOURTAG with your actual Xbox Live gamertag, ex.:
<?php if (function_exists('ardamis_halo3')) ardamis_halo3('ardamis'); ?>Download
Get the files here: (Current version: 1.0 beta)
Download the Halo 3 WordPress Plugin
How can I add the Service Record to a post?
Thanks to a really neat plugin, The Execution of All Things, you can call functions from any activated plugin from within a post. Once you have both the Halo 3 Service Record plugin and the wp-exec plugin installed, you can include the sig in a post with the line:
<exec type="function" name="ardamis_halo3" params="YOURTAG" />
HALO 3 RULES
September 27th, 2007
i need the HTML Code for this setup so i can post it on my myspace.
September 27th, 2007
Excellent work man. I suppose this can be transplanted on a non-wordpress site in the same way as your gamertag script?
October 1st, 2007
This won’t work on MySpace. It uses PHP to do all sorts of stuff, and MySpace will never let users add PHP scripts to their pages. You’ll have to stick to an image-based sig.
The principles behind the Halo 3 sig are the same as those of the gamertag script, so yes, it can be edited to work on non-WordPress sites in the same way.
October 1st, 2007
ardamis you ROCK! you are a code ninja, I love you!
October 5th, 2007
Brilliant, that is fantastic thank you very much
October 8th, 2007
Can this be adopted to work in Blogger? I already have my GamerTag on the page, it would be cool to add the service record as well. Thanks.
October 8th, 2007
The current method won’t work on Blogger or any other site that prohibits you from running PHP scripts. But I’m sure someone will make a Halo 3 Service Record flash sig for use on vBulletin boards and the like.
October 9th, 2007
Great work
did something change on bungie’s site?
the emblem does not seem to load anymore
any idea’s on fix?
November 11th, 2007
Yup, Bungie changed the Halo 3 player profile page, which broke the rank emblem part of the plugin. It’s fixed now.
November 11th, 2007
prefect, thanks again
November 12th, 2007
Hey ardamis,
How hard would it be to combine the two cache files used by the gamer tag mod and the halo 3 mod in to one cache file? I was trying to play around with the code without any luck, again you are the master lol… Hey you should have my email address shot me an email with your paypal email address so I can donate some funds your way
November 26th, 2007
Sharing the cache file would require rewriting the caching portions of both plugins.
November 27th, 2007
anyway you could make this script print onto an image instead?
December 12th, 2007
Yes, it’s possible to convert the script’s output into an image, but that defeats the purpose of the plugin, so it’s not a project I’ll be working on.
If you want an image, why not just crop a screen capture of the output?
December 15th, 2007
Another great plugin. Thanks ardamis!
December 30th, 2007