[NaRyan]

Installed this today on my 3 servers (L4D1, L4D2 & GMOD)
Only issue I'm having is in L4D1&2 it's showing player connect/disconnect twice.

04/Feb 16:448 Player =[Half-Pint]= connected 04/Feb 16:448 Player =[Half-Pint]= connected 04/Feb 16:53:28 Player =[Half-Pint]= disconnected (Disconnect by user.) 04/Feb 16:53:28 Player =[Half-Pint]= disconnected (Disconnect by user.)

[cybersquare420]

how difficult would it be to send chat information in the other direction? i.e. chat to the server from the web interface...

[anon666]

Originally Posted by cybersquare420 how difficult would it be to send chat information in the other direction? i.e. chat to the server from the web interface...

It can be achieved by using any PHP Rcon implementation and issuing the console "say" command.

[cybersquare420]

that would work, but i want it open to the public on our clan website... i don't think giving johnny Pub the rcon connection would be a very good idea... lol

im thinking maybe something with irq

[Lebson506th]

Well basically all you need to give them is a text box to type in.

Using a server-side private script (ie, not viewable/downloadable by the client) you can automatically login and add the contents of that box to "rcon say " and all they will be able to do is say stuff.

You can also append a name to the beginning of it so it doesn't just say "Console:" it'll say "Console: Johnny: " instead, for example.

[cybersquare420]

/me head in hands...

Man, i wish i had taken a class in php in college... took VB instead... fat lot of good that has done me... lol

ok... ima gonna need to find a decent php tutorial and brush up a it i guess...

thank you for your insight

[anon666]

Originally Posted by anon666 I have came across http://ruckman.net/blog/download.php?view.4. It is basically an RCON panel and I think it can improved to include captcha or other authentication methods to prevent spamming. At the moment, I managed to modify the codes from the package to have a basic chat panel (without authentication at all, and using the hardcoded IP/PASS in the php).

I never bothered to include authentication. Credit goes to Ruckman. I stripped all of the commands except the say command. Put your server ip/port/pass in rcon.php and you'll be good to go. Feel free to modify or improve it. Sorry if it is a bit messy. I have no programming background except reading a bit of tutorials on W3Schools & PHP.net

[cybersquare420]

well, i got the page up and running, but i still cannot get it to send to the servers... i have tried many different versions of my url just to be sure... (with and without http://... with and without trailing slash... etc) i think something is not quite right with the code (but i am not sure) a friend who is better with code than me is gonna look it over for me later... ill post back what i find out...
did you test this? not saying u didnt... just trying to figure out if it is my setup or not is all...
anyhow thank you much your efforts... it has at least given me a starting point.

[anon666]

I've been using that since L4D, and it does work on my L4D2 server.

Screenshot

[anon666]

By the way, if the gameserver and the webserver is on the same machine or in the same subnet, you might want to try putting the gameserver's LAN IP in the php script instead of its public IP.