[Doggie52]

Doggie52 (dG52) PHP SourceMod Plugin Updater

After hours of work I am finally done with what I think can be of great help to server administrators. I would appreciate if someone could test this on their server and report back with suggestions, feedback or problems! I would also appreciate if someone took their time and helped me out with the UI part of the script!

dG52 PHP SourceMod Plugin Updater grabs a list of the plugins (through 'sm plugins list' via RCON) installed on your server. It then queries both the SourceMod plugin search and the AlliedModders forums for the latest version. After having found the URL of the plugin's forum post it saves this in an SQLite database for future searches.

Usage instructions

Download the archive and extract to your webserver's `htdocs` directory.
Configure the script by opening `config.php` in your favorite text-editor and editing the variables listed.
Then, open the `install.php` file in your browser and let it create the database.

You're done! Open `plugins.php` in your browser and let it do its job.

If the plugin can not find a matching forum URL for a certain plugin, it will tell you so. You can then choose to click the affected plugin's name and add the forum URL yourself!

Changelog

The code lies on an SVN repository - the source code changes can be viewed here. If you prefer to have this in feed format, you can access that here.

Notes

Make sure your script is hosted somewhere only YOU can access it. Do NOT put this on a public webserver - bad things can happen.
Please report any issues in the issue tracker!
The script queries the search and forum pages directly - these can take a long time to download so be patient! The script can take around a minute to complete.
The script uses the srcds rcon PHP class by Geert Broekmans.
The script entirely relies on that plugin authors keep their plugin version up-to-date on the forum post.

Download

http://code.google.com/p/dg52-php-sm...downloads/list

Screenshot

[HSFighter]

Very nice Job

I try to check it tomorrow, and will give you feedback.

[DeaD_EyE82]

Nice Work.
Can you add a function to add the URLS for the Plugins manually?

[Doggie52]

DeaD_EyE82 - that's basically already implemented - simply edit the SQLite database (with something like SQLite DB browser 1.0) and add a row with the plugin's exact name in the `name` field and the corresponding URL in the `url` field. I'll add an easier way to do this in the near future!

EDIT: I have added this functionality in revision 5! Simply click the plugin's name and it will take you to a page where you can add your own URL. The new download is available on the main post.

[HSFighter]

Sorry for my late feedback.

All fine, it's working great

It's would be nice if your script watch the new plugins to,
and not only the approved plugins:

PHP Code:

// Match the plugin search page against patterns for URL and author
$searchpattern = "/(?:title=\"Approved\")(?:.*?)(?:\")(.*?)(?:\")(?:.*?)(?:<a href=\")(?:.*?)(?:\">)(.*?)(<\/a>)/i"; 


ELSE very nice Work ^^

[HSFighter]

Originally Posted by HSFighter It's would be nice if your script watch the new plugins to...

Originally Posted by Doggie52 ... (since, AFAIK, it only returns approved plugins. If it can return unapproved plugins, please let me know how this would be done!)...

I mean new plugins, not unapproved plugins.

<img src="images/new3.gif" alt="New" title="New">

[Cleric]

This is just great, kudos to you.

Will give this a go on my server in the near future and will hopefully give some feedback.

How about a choice between SQLite and Mysql?

[Dravu]

Did you get permission to have your script crawl and scrape the forum? I already have enough problems accessing it to be honest. Don't need extra load on the server.

Ask nicely and they might even come up with a much more light-weight search feature for finding plugin versions.

[Xsinthis]

I'll be up front, i don't know nothing about coding, so i'm purely saying this based on what i've read. By the sounds of it your crawling the forums, why not instead query/crawl the list of plugins they keep on the main pages? (http://www.sourcemod.net/plugins.php)

Also, why not get it to work with HSFighter's Wedadmin package

[HSFighter]

Originally Posted by Xsinthis I'll be up front, i don't know nothing about coding, so i'm purely saying this based on what i've read. By the sounds of it your crawling the forums, why not instead query/crawl the list of plugins they keep on the main pages? (http://www.sourcemod.net/plugins.php)

He get the plugin Version from the forum entrys.
The version appears in the headline of the plugin topic.
But the version doun't be show in a row in the pluginlist.

Originally Posted by Xsinthis Also, why not get it to work with HSFighter's Wedadmin package

If i get the permission from Doggie52 to do this,
i will add this nice function to the Webadmin and give the credits to Doggie52.