New Service at Runewise

I have a good excuse for not posting yesterday :-) I've been working on a new totally unique service for Runewise (and possibly other fan sites). It is also the first Runewise's service I implemented in collaboration with another PHP developer (benzrf), which I haven't done before.

Anyway.

Here is what it is about. Now, when you see Runewise Advice you may notice that some of the items and commodities are highlighted. Hover your mouse over and you'll get a nice little tooltip with the current GE price of this item or commodity. Seemingly simple, but very convenient :-)

P.S. underneath the hood a basis text analityc solution was implemented, so any text can be annotated with such tooltips now.

PHP Code for Runescape Webmasters

A while ago I published sample PHP code to retrieve Runescape Highscores and calculate combat levels. I am happy to know that it helped several webmasters. I believe that stuff like that shouldn't be kept proprietary. So... What does it have to do with today's article?

Well, today I started to work on a new Runewise service and went looking for a sample PHP code that would extract data from the GE database. I found it here. One of the webmasters who used my code from RS Haven, posted his code snippet for the GE database. I can only applaud. Thank you very much!

How to read Runescape highscores?

If you are wondering how to utilize the new highscores service provided by Jagex on your own site and don’t know where to start, then this article is for you. I am describing how to programmatically access and read the highscores and provide a sample PHP code which you can grab and reuse whenever you wish.