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Gametag database submissions

Kieran — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:42:58 +0000

Post host move, I have squashed all the bugs and am ready to accept submissions for the OcUK gamertag database again here

There are now over 160 gamers on the list, hope you are all finding it of use!

Gamertag page improvements

Kieran — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 14:53:29 +0000

I've added some code that allows you to sort the columns by forum name or gamertag name so that if you are trying to match a gamertag up to a forum user, its a little quicker. Let me know if it doesn't work or misbehaves in some way!

That will be all the additions to the page. I might try and make a more advanced page soon where it will list the user's gamerscore etc, but I want to keep the current page nice and simple, so its fast and easy to use.

Gamertag database for the Overclockers forums

Kieran — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 20:51:37 +0000

I spend much of my time on a forum called Overclockers UK, or OcUK for short (link) and from there I have built up a list of people I play on the Xbox 360 who I can be (fairly) sure are not cheaters, whingers or any of the other annoying types on Xbox Live. One annoying thing though is that not everyone uses their forum ID for their gamertag, so I loose track of who is who. So partly for my benefit, and partly because I think it'd help over on the forums, I've created a database of forum IDs and gamertags here.

Its powered by a PHP script that fetches the info from a table. Normally you can't call PHP code from a WordPress page but I found a plugin that will let you: runPHP. I was a bit concerned that if the plugin broke it would expose the PHP and perhaps let those nasty script kiddies into my database so all the PHP code does is include another separate script somewhere else on my website. PHP security is not my speciality, I'm sure I'll soon find out if I left any holes anywhere!