Hi,

To start im a noob when it comes to forums so im going on what a mate of mine said.

I play a webbased game called tribalwars, iv seen others adding in codes or something into external forums so that when you type [village](816|723)[/village] it links into the tribalwars server and gets the village information. This can also be done with players and there tribes. I know its a form of bbcode so there should be a way to link it to the forum iv setup here. Iv done alot of searching and your was the one that came out on top by the looks of things with regards to SFM wich is what he says is needed to add in these codes.

My mate has all the codes/files and things but i need to know where he can add all of it in for me.

Any help will go a long way.

Many thanks.

So adding in the codes into the header and footer (if its html) will affect the text in the posts?

Or if its bbcode it goes in the  news/posts/signature block and that should apply to the text you add into your posts? Or is that only for the signatures?

I hope im making sense here.

Ok, iv got a bit more info on it.

How it works is that i download the world (or game) data from the server, iv then got to upload it to the server where the forum is hosted and then mod the forum to link the bbcodes to that world data wich is store in a text file.   

From what i know from free forums they dont allow people to upload data files to the server. From what iv been told its a text file that stores all the players, villages and tribes stats, names and details. Its about 10mb last time my mate checked.

Will i be allowed to upload files to the server/forum database. If not i think im out of luck and am going to have to pay someone to do it for me.

thanks for the replies so far.. 

is there a paid service where it is allowed? or can you recomend a site that might allow it?

Im not trying to premote anyone elses forum site here so a pm would be great if you have a site.


ps. out of all the sites iv been to this is by far the best. on others iv waited nearly 3 days for a reply.

thanks again

Have you seen the Custom BBCode code?

Yeah, iv chatted to my mate and he says i have to upload the data onto the forums server, and then write in code to fetch the info from the file. it also has to be update about once every 3 odd days. so its rather a pain.

I fully understand why you cant give me other sites And apart from my mental holiday while i asked I agree with not giving it out. Im a computer technician (hardware) and it would be like me telling a vlient to go to another technician.

 

I think i take more than others.

I just thought of something. Its more work but might work.

Instead of trying to add things onto the server i could do it this way.. well for this game atleast and it does sort of solve my problem to. just a bit more admin.

842|715

It still links to the village / tribe / player i want. its just alot more involved than just putting in [village](842|715)[/village].

I take it there is no way to tell the forum that when i type in [village](842|715)[/village] it must display 842|715   ? Basically it does all the typing for me?

Forgive me if i sound stupid here but all this is new to me.

never mind. another holiday moment there. The problem is there servers dont use the (567|586), they use village ID.