Alpha: VBSoccer Tennis Cricket Formula1 - (others sports are being modified)

Hi,
These r some additions i am adding to my own forums containing livescores pages, and other pages for tables of major leagues, fixtures, standings and fixtures.
Some of the content is routed through my site including the first 4 attachments, while sports.zip which enables
Soccer, tennis, hockey, baseball, basketball, and american football
Will act as follows : Cron job to download the feeds from my website, parse into database, and the sports.php will accordinaly show which tables selected to users.

Demos are on :
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/livescores.php
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/latest.php
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/cricket.php
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/formula1.php
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/tennis.php


Attention: None of these files will work if you do not have allowurl_fopen_on




All you need to do is upload two files, few images and create two templates using the xml product file included.
Your server must allow you to include remote files ( allow_url_fopen = on )
There is no installer as they are only two templates to add manually.

I am still developing this for further additions so it might follow some updates especially if i was given more ideas.

The livescores page contains a Link to a freebet.php file that i did not include but rather is up to you to create and add your own content page since you cannot modify the body.
Though you cannot modify the table itself but its percentage table thus you can edit the template as you may and just make sure to keep the variable.
The goals.php and standings.php are non vb pages but rather popups, their style is included within the en.css style sheet thus you can edit to match your forum look and feel.

To install just upload the files, add the two templates, and dont forget to link to it from your navbar or header.

May 22nd , added Tennis under further development too.
demo at
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/tennis.php
zip attached
May 25th, added cricket parsed rss feeds as requested by Zia, he also suggested the free feeds to be displayed.
nb: crickinfo.com provides the feeds for free as long as you keep their copyright, parsing technique Copyright 2005 Drew Phillips
cricket.zip attached
demo at
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/cricket.php
nb: in cricket.php FIND
/home/username/public_html/forum
and replace with your actual forum path this setting will actually put a cached copy of the rss feed on your desired directory so you dont overload your server connections

June 02 2006
Uploaded formula1.zip ,
One file to upload and one xml to export 1 template.
Includes, Formula 1 results, Drivers Standings and Constructors Standings

June 02 2006
Added Sports.zip
To Install :
1:Export scorestables.xml
This will create your required database tables.
2: Export ONE of the templates xml files the first one sportstemplates.xml has also links to the previous attached files if installed, the second does not if you are using sports.php alone.
3: upload sports.php to forum root, and owsoccer.php to includes/cron/
4: Add the cron job as described in the note ( See the picture included in the zip file ) and DO NOT change the minute value, it is set to update once per hour, keep it so , as the feeds are updated once per hour too and it will not be any more usefull if you hammer my server with requests !
Finally,
For using any of those add your own navbar or header links wherever you find suitable on your forum.

Attention : I removed sports.php , untill i resolve some communication setting and few other issues, the rest are working fine.

Suggestions and feedback for further improvements are appreciated.
If you use the feeds please click install !

Sports.php is no longer served.

20 Jan 2007 : Updated soccer.zip
changed files :
livescores.php
goal.php ( you can safely delete old goals.php )
standing.php ( you can safely delete standings.php)
en.css ( because of changed goal and standing class names)
images to be uploaded to your forum images directory.
If you are updating, its enough to replace those files with no further editing or installing.

[lebanon]

Raptor, you dont need to use the freebet.php version read the previous posts to override it.
Zia, thanks for the links ill check them,
Unfortunatly it doesnt allow custom rss feeds, because we parse them manually, where they dont really look the same everyone, unlike news rss where all providors use item and channel tags, in sports everyone uses their own imaginative tags or whichever comes on their mind !
Ill check the feeds and hope to get it done too

[lebanon]

Zia,
I have parsed the cricinfo.com rss feeds. and should be able to finish em by tomorrow,
a working demo of crickit info is at
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/cricket.php
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/crick...url=livescores
and there is a box to scroll to the other rss feeds from page you listed
Ill post the script after your review so i dont double work on this one

[Zia]

Originally Posted by lebanon

Zia,
I have parsed the cricinfo.com rss feeds. and should be able to finish em by tomorrow,
a working demo of crickit info is at
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/cricket.php
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/crick...url=livescores
and there is a box to scroll to the other rss feeds from page you listed
Ill post the script after your review so i dont double work on this one

it goes fine man..........

u can release it as beta, by this time i will continuing searching for more rss & will let you know,later on it can be finalize.

can u make a central page : there will the option :
Foot Ball
Cricket
F1

By Kliking On the tab (cricket/footbal/....) user will forward to the related page...


umm ..may be its a off topic:
if we provide another kind of rss feed like movie/games...it can be added to?
we will highly appreciate that..

Thnx.

[lebanon]

Zia, i posted the cricinfo.com rss feeds , as for the tabs, this is a design wise thing and each person would like to edit his templates as he see fit.
When am done ill post em in one template and 1 file ofcourse but i will also leave the seperate files too.
As for other rss feeds, depending on the feed structure, as i noticed cricinfo was generous providing much info by rss, while other might probably just give u soo little info to use on your website, so my answer about other feeds would be dependant on their quality !

[Neutral Singh]

wow !! Can it possible that we could show a live score of a cricket match on forumhome which is updated everytime user refreshes the forumhome page. Live cricket scores would be awesome attraction on many forums...

[soulface]

Originally Posted by Neutral Singh

wow !! Can it possible that we could show a live score of a cricket match on forumhome which is updated everytime user refreshes the forumhome page. Live cricket scores would be awesome attraction on many forums...

yeah! that'll be nice..

[lebanon]

actually yes it can be done easily, as i set the data in new template , you can easily set that since the parsing info and the rss feed link are available to you, if u need help about creating them in forum home let me know, ill post instructions.

[hitmanuk2k]

I seem to be having trouble locating the template which I need to edit in order to stop showing background images on the live scores?

[dragula_31]

in installation notes:

Add the two templates with their respective names.

i don't understand this... please help.. what i'm suppose to do?

[Stifmeister2]

Create new templates.