[Update] Habbo Badges on your site

[Blob]

Why double post the same thing?

This isn't going to be that advanced people.. these are Habbo Fansite owners, not application developers, so why make an API? (plus.. you don't download an API, you download a library to communicate with it).

I don't see the point in returning the data so they can style them, because that's just doing the same thing as HabbCrazy's is doing, but doing the parsing on your server instead of theirs.

I thought I didn't post it as my page was still open on the post, so I posted it.

Anyway, sorry for posting, I'll go back into hiding now like everyone else.

[Dentafrice]

I thought I didn't post it as my page was still open on the post, so I posted it.

Anyway, sorry for posting, I'll go back into hiding now like everyone else.

No, can't you have a normal discussion?

Why would they need to create an elaborate API, for something that can so simply be styled by CSS?

[Blob]

No, can't you have a normal discussion?

Why would they need to create an elaborate API, for something that can so simply be styled by CSS?

I didn't mean it as an API, I mean't it as a script that parses the page that just has the badge names on it, showing the website owner how to style it so they can edit it, so they can customize it how they want, e.g using lightbox on it to say what hotel its from or why the habbo got it.

[Dentafrice]

True, but you also have to look at the fact that there is a lot of badges being returned and parsed through.

[Blob]

You could copy a list of all the badges off the page and just do a cron job every 2 days / week or something and if the pages aren't the same, update it and save it to the same page, that way it doesn't parse it everytime you go on the badge. (You could also have an over ride option if you change styling or something)

[Dentafrice]

You could copy a list of all the badges off the page and just do a cron job every 2 days / week or something and if the pages aren't the same, update it and save it to the same page, that way it doesn't parse it everytime you go on the badge. (You could also have an over ride option if you change styling or something)

But that's really using more resources then it's worth.

Plus in your idea, you'd have to then write what each badge was for, etc.

I just think right now, in it's current form (the way it is displayed) is the best, but things could be added to better style it via CSS instead of URL params.

[Blob]

Its an idea for the future, it just puts the load of them and offers some alternative styling as well.

Or instead of the checking just update the page every week.

Or do it like this:

Have the main file in parts (badges.uk.txt) then the main file reads them and just puts them all together then do like for example:

Cron Jobs
Monday - Update UK/ES Badges (If there are new ones)
Tuesday - Update US/FI Badges (If there are new ones)
Wednesday - Update New/Unsorted Badges and Update General Badges (If there are new ones)
Thursday - Update Campaign/FR Badges (If there are new ones)
Friday - Update Achievements/IT Badges (If there are new ones)
Saturday - Update AU/NL Badges (If there are new ones)
Sunday - Update CA/SG/Other Badges (If there are new ones)

It would be alot of work to do, and you could just do a cron job for everyday that goes to a PHP file that sorts that work out, because then it takes load of your server for not doing them all at one time, and then it takes load of theirs cos they don't have to parse it everytime a user visits a page with that on, and habbo don't often release new badges every week anyway.