News
HLstats Moved to United Admins 27 May 2003 by
HLstats is now under continued development by United Admins, who are also the developers of HLGuard, Cheating Death, ClanMod and other popular projects. This is just a note to advise of this change. Note also that the HLstats forums have been moved to United Admins now - if you're interested in contributing to the development project, ask there.
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Features
Here's some of the most important features of HLstats:
HLstats requires: Perl5; the DBI and MySQL Perl modules (which are small and easily installed); PHP4; a MySQL 3.23 database.
HLstats is designed for use under Linux, although it should run on any platform which supports all of the required software above, including Windows and most Unixes.
What is HLstats?
HLstats consists of a Perl script (the HLstats logging daemon) and a set of PHP scripts (which generate the statistics Web pages). HLstats provides player and clan rankings and statistics for Half-Life servers.
HLstats collects log data using Half-Life's "logaddress" facility (which sends log data as UDP packets from the Half-Life server to an arbitrary remote address), and inserts that data directly into a MySQL database. This makes it easy to maintain the data by eliminating the costly process of scanning large numbers of log files to regenerate statistics, and allows virtually limitless potential for customisation on the front-end. It also has the benefit that the statistics are updated in "real-time" -- if a player makes a kill, they can immediately view the statistics and see that kill reflected in their player details.
Additionally, because HLstats collects data using "logaddress", it can receive data from multiple diverse Half-Life servers simultaneously, compiling the data into a single set of statistics. Adding another Half-Life server to the statistics is simply a matter of configuring HLstats to accept data from the server's address, and then configuring the server to send log data to the HLstats logging daemon using the "logaddress" command.
How does it work?
Here's a diagram to illustrate:
Logged events are sent as UDP data packets from the game servers to a web server. The HLstats logging daemon (hlstats.pl) running on the web server parses this data and saves relevant information to a MySQL database. The PHP pages (Apache) then access that database and dynamically generate HTML pages for delivery to web clients.
Demonstration: HLstats in action
Want to see some live examples of what HLstats can do? Try this Google search.
HLstats Community
There's a great (third party) site at www.hlstats-community.net with more HLstats news, files and community forums for HLstats users.
About
HLstats was designed and developed by Simon Garner (). HLstats is released as open source software under the GNU General Public License (GPL). HLstats is now under development by United Admins.
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