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J4CK8

L11: Posh Member
Mar 4, 2009
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Nice work, always wondered if there could be an easier way than googling the map name :p
 

Darth Cyrax

L2: Junior Member
Nov 29, 2008
94
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that's very cool. maybe Valve will take notice and give you a community weapon:p.(seriously)
Very nice.
 

drp

aa
Oct 25, 2007
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getting array errors

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /home/fireslash/public_html/tf2/map_info.php on line 62

nice script btw
 

Chaopsychochick

L4: Comfortable Member
Jun 16, 2009
189
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I got errors as well.

Though looking through the list that looks really nice.

I am just sad that no version of Bayou has been played when it was polling. Darn. Though I haven't really advertised it much, so I guess it is to be expected. :p
 

Wegason

L3: Member
Aug 16, 2009
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*cries at all the versions of 2fort*

*Cries again that Mario Kart and CP Orange are more "popular" than top quality customs.*
 

Darth Cyrax

L2: Junior Member
Nov 29, 2008
94
8
Errors, :(. I wanna see if anyone plays Hydroelectric.
ctrl+f is your friend.
And I can't believe people are still playing that awful orange edit I made a long time ago:O. It was my first experience with hammer, and is by default terrible. That was before I knew about optimization, func_details, and the grid.
At least i never carved anything:rolleyes:
 

FireSlash

L2: Junior Member
Sep 29, 2009
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Errors?!

Dammit dammit dammit...

Err, actually looks like it only errors if you search for something not in the database. Now, the data here is only a day or so old right now, so if your map isn't in any active server's rotation, it's not going to show. I'll clean up the errors though :)

*cries at all the versions of 2fort*

Code:
+--------------------------+
| map                      |
+--------------------------+
| ctf_2fort                |
| ctf_2fort_sunrise        |
| arena_2fort              |
| ctf_2fort_tf2fr_alpha3   |
| ctf_2fort_night          |
| ctf_2fort_rainy_final    |
| ctf_2fort_revamp_b2      |
| ctf_2fort_revamp_b3      |
| ctf_2fort_engi_power4    |
| ctf_2fort_egyptyV05      |
| ctf_2fort_engi_power     |
| ctf_2fort_night2_b2      |
| ctf_2fortn               |
| ctf_2fort_tf2fr_b1       |
| koth_2fort_b2            |
| ctf_2fort_rainy          |
| ctf_2fort_revamp_b1      |
| ctf_2fort_freak          |
| pl_2fort_pricev3d        |
| pl_2fort_priceV4Final    |
| 2fortsniper_tf2_f        |
| ctf_2fort_classic_v2     |
| ctf_2fort_kross_v2       |
| ctf_2fort_kross_v2_storm |
| cp_2fort                 |
| 2fortsniper_haunted      |
| ctf_2fort_tf2fr_alpha2   |
+--------------------------+
27 rows in set (0.27 sec)
 
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Pseudo

L6: Sharp Member
Jan 26, 2008
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It would be cool if you could do a partial match search, or use wildcards. So you could easily compare different versions of a map, or filter the list to a certain gametype.
 

Lord Ned

L420: High Member
Feb 11, 2008
421
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Would also allow people to find servers that are running old versions of your map.
 

FireSlash

L2: Junior Member
Sep 29, 2009
50
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You can, with http://fireslash.net/~fireslash/tf2/server_find.php

Use % as a wildcard

for example, if you wanted 2fort variations, you could search %2fort%, of if you wanted just variations of ctf_2fort, you could search ctf_2fort%... a more practical search: all beta versions of pl_waste would be pl_waste_b%

This only searches servers currently running the map though, not historic results. The reasoning here is that doing a partial match on that massive db is more than a little slow.
 

Chaopsychochick

L4: Comfortable Member
Jun 16, 2009
189
91
Really? Using a DB and it is still slow even with that sort of simple string?

Sounds like you could stand to do a little optimization for that. I am willing to help a bit with that if you want, though I not an expert with DBs by anymeans. :/
 

Shmitz

Old Hat
aa
Nov 12, 2007
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Very nice. I wanted to get something like that running about a year ago, but the guy I asked to help flaked out on me. I've always thought "what servers is it on at this second" is a terrible way to search for maps. Gotta have some kind of database that tells you what servers have the map in the rotation, even if it's not playing at this second.
 

FireSlash

L2: Junior Member
Sep 29, 2009
50
49
Really? Using a DB and it is still slow even with that sort of simple string?

Sounds like you could stand to do a little optimization for that. I am willing to help a bit with that if you want, though I not an expert with DBs by anymeans. :/
It's a combination of a lot of things right now.

The two primary problems are that my server is oversaturated with other services and programs, and that I'm not entirely sure what services people want yet, so I don't know what data I need to keep and how best to store it.

Once I have a good idea of what people want, I'll start building much faster meta tables.
 

LordNor

L3: Member
Jun 24, 2009
134
15
i like it