Stupid simple signature status script with simple scripted server savvy

Pretty cool signature thing.

 

I updated the proof of concept code for the signature generator a bit - making $c static so that the curl handle gets re-used.

In any case - in any script you are calling the API from make sure you use curl or another method that will re-use connections for subsequent HTTP requests. This will add a huge performance boost (more and more of a performance boost the further your server/script is from the API in the Eastern US). Especially in cases where you're making an API call for each player in a server or for each server in the server list - those delays add up _fast_. The added delay is roughly equivalent to the ping time from your server to the API (1xRTT).


So if you have a box on the west coast of the US or Europe (lets say 75ms) away, and you have a page that (for example) lists every player on a server as well as shows them as gold/whatever - you need to make a query for every player. On a server with 32 players that would be an extra 32*75ms delay, which is an extra 2.4 second delay in your page loading.

Even if your site is only 1 or 10 ms away from the API, the extra delays from opening a new TCP connection do add up significantly. For a server on the same LAN making 2 calls to the API, I measured an extra 10-35ms delay between re-using the same connection versus not (it seems a bit high but it may be correct)

tl;dr: on any page/in any script where you are making repeated calls to the API, make sure you are re-using your http connection with libcurl or similar.

This is also very important for helping us maintain the API. If people don't do this, we may have to impose more strict rate limits on API calls because unnecessarily high numbers of connections will create problems for us (whereas many API calls per second is less of a problem)

 

They can check by attempting to register the name or by looking at https://api.kag2d.com/player/usernameWhatever/info

Using this signature generator is a very roundabout way of doing it

No, we won't unregister any existing nicknames regardless of how long they appear to have been inactive (note that the API doesn't record all actions)

 

Well that sucks for you, but giving people usernames with low activity is not a good idea, no matter how much they beg.

Spoiler

I want to be Kouji

 

Click on your panel, on the top of the page tohether with Inbox and Alerts, then 'Signature'.

 

In your signiture take this: https://poc.kag2d.com/siggen/kagstatus-simple.php?username=MyNAME,
post that with an image tag like this: [img]https://poc.kag2d.com/siggen/kagstatus-simple.php?username=MyNAME[/img] in your signature
and you'll get this:

Just change MyNAME to your username in that link

 

Instead of a space, put %20. For example Hey There would become Hey%20There