$postdata['players'] = json_encode($players); // Player names in an array
 $postdata['opt'] = json_encode($options); // Various options described on the bf3stats API page

$c = curl_init('http://api.bf3stats.com/pc/playerlist/');
 curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
 curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POST, true);
 curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'BF3StatsAPI/0.1');
 curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect:'));
 curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
 curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdata);
 $data = curl_exec($c); // Holds you result as an array
 $statuscode = curl_getinfo($c, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
 $errormsg = curl_error($c);
 curl_close($c);

Obviously this is just the CURL call without any error handling or additional checks. But that’s all there is to grabbing player data from the API. My page then uses all that data to come up with all the statistics you can see. For details refer to the bf3stats.class.php in the bf3stats project.

Download the source on the bf3stats Page.

Version 0.0.8

• bugfix for memcache config call during update
• additional config variable used in update process outside cronjob
• moved forced update to its own page
• cronjob updated to use proper configuration variables
• cronjob updated to store a list of already updated players in the past 60 minutes to conserve update slots
• removed darkpro template and files to avoid confusion
• made bf3stats the default template
• renamed config for memcache to cache to avoid confusion

Battlefield 3 Changelog

http://t.co/SF93n1km

This is great news! Hopefully they will follow their earlier DLCs and make them worth it. I would think that play testing a DLC means a larger amount of content to be verified for release.

Defiantly looking forward to it! Thanks to BF3 Blog for the heads up.

I released a new version of bf3stats including a new popup for Accuracy and disabling memcache by default in the configuration (since it’s not often used on shared hosts).

Getting close to a final version with only a few things left to do to meet my roadmap.

Changelog

• disable memcache by default
• only enable smarty cache when memcache is disabled
• disable smarty cache by default if memcache is not used
• split up the statistics on their own templates, including them on the default template for home
• added accuracy popup to show top 10 accuarcy for weapons
• moved best ribbon and medal count to best ribbon name line

I just released bf3stats Version 0.0.6. It includes some updates to the updatePlayers.php cronjob and a couple of template tweaks. See changelog for details.

Changelog Version 0.0.6

• removed debug output from updatePlayers.php cronjob
• only update players that were not updated > 2hrs
• moved Kits from Score to Kit popup
• removed Main Kit name from Kit popup and only show the icon instead
• re-aligned Kills popup
• merged MVP tables together into one table
• removed unique medal and ribbon counts from popup and renamed Progress to Unique Progress

Check them out at http://hang-over.org/bf3stats/

Thank you for your support in creating this site as you supplied most ideas of what stats to add. Hope you will enjoy the tool!

These issues have both been address. I am sorry for the inconvenience this double release may have caused. I will make sure to test things better in the future.

Changelog

Version 0.0.5

• Bugfix: Wrong player list due to configuration changes on compare page
• Bugfix: % of Total score was not displayed for ground and air vehicles

Download: http://www.grewe.ca/projects/bf3stats/

Players can now be assigned a “bought” variable that tells the stats parser to figure out the hours per day since the user bought the game. This is optional and backwards compatible to your old configuration.

Also added a new cache index so users with shared memcaches don’t override each others statistics upon updates. File based caching is not affected by this but the key is still required. Please update your configuration accordingly using the supplied configuration as an example.

Changelog

• Added custom cache index
• Added per player configuration for bought date
• Added playtime per 50 Euro spent
• Added playtime since release date
• Added playtime since bought [Optional]
• Added Main Kit used
• Added best weapon and vehicle under kills popup