On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Brian A. Stumm wrote: > > First I appologize for hi-jacking this thread but I was hoping to catch > the attn of a few GSP's by replying here. > > Some of you know that I am the project coordinator for phpUA, > httpd://phpua.com > > Anyway we are readying another release of phpUA which will finally start > implementing our long promised admin abilities (ie kick, ban, changemap > etc game server admin). I'd love to get a GSP or two to consult with me on > wishlists and whatnot for future versions of our free product. We really > want to appeal to both the GSP as well as the single server admin. One > thing I know GSP's will be looking for is various levels of AUTH and that > *IS* coming but not in this release. We are nearly finished with a > completely new backend engine that will do that and much more, basically a > complete content management system like phpnuke or xoops only geared > towards gaming and servers. It will allow one install of phpua with > master admins (the gsp tech support maybe?) and sub levels of admin > (the renter with level 2 say and his fellow admins level 3 perhaps) in > other words multi level authentication. More on that later, but just a > side note here to any php or C/C++ devs that are interested in this > project at this point, we ARE always looking for more developers for the > team. Oh and a last note, this new release WILL support source engine. > > Anyway, I want to start getting together wish lists for web based game > server control panel app that is your be all end all. My goals are to be > able to do things like edit config files, book servers (1 hour blocks up > to monthly rentals etc). Heck maybe we can even devise a way to auto setup > new game server instances or install plugins on the fly. Start/Stop > servers of course is a must. you get the point. This is where you tell me > what else/all you would want it to do. > > The admin panel will in our upcoming release will have the basics for > monitoring/admining a server and will be somewhat user friendly. By that I > mean where it displays the hostname will be a form that you can edit and > click a button to change, no need to no the command that hlds uses > (hostname) to change your server name. same for sv_password, and changing > maps is of course a drop down list of all maps on your server, pick one > and click the changelevel button, other common commands be the same. It will > have a box to view what players are saying and a way to chat back to them. > kick, ban, slap, slay, etc from clicking buttons. you get the point. I've > got code laying about here that does ALL of the simple things in this > paragraph and most of the things from the wishlist in previous paragraph > just never put em all together into a professional releasable app as I > intend to do now (and have been working towards for last year plus). > > Anyway that I probably left much out but should have said enough to get my > point across. List discussion is fine or feel free to contact me directly > if you wish. And thanks for taking the time to read my ramblings.
Are you going to support BFV and UT for administrating the servers? I am writing a full system for the hlds for our needs, but I am interested in a admin system for all our supported games and my experiences with programming to other games are limited. /Bjorn -- // This is a comment. /* This is a comment. */ <!-- This is a comment --> # This is a comment. Have I provided enough comments? _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
