As I have seen a couple of google searches hitting my page looking for some easy bf3stats API example here some code. It is pretty much the same in my bf3stats page and it gives you an idea how easy it is to fetch the data from their API.

 $postdata['players'] = json_encode($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.

Another update to bf3stats. Please not that there were a lot of template changes in the past releases. If you are using a modified version please make sure to create a copy first before installing the updates. The configuration format has also changed a bit – make sure you mirror thoses changes into your own configuration.

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

MWE is now using bf3stats to track their users! Thanks for the the support of bf3stats. I added you to the list of active users!

Hey readers,

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

Hey interested readers,

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

I am pleased to announce the first platoon using the bf3stats player list!

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!