You may have noticed the lovely new Games in progress script used on Jazz2onlinev2, Hazes Hideout and also in a couple of days, jazzjackrabbit.net. If you havent seen it yet, on J2ov2 click Games in Progress on the top bar and see.
You may be suprised to know that you can in actual fact place it on your own site free of charge.
Although we wont hand out the source code to our GIP script, we will provide you with the means to place it on your site. You can completely customize the colour scheme to fit in with your site.
You can download an example script at:
http://digiex.net/jj2gip/gip.zip
You can use the gip.php and just change the html colour codes in it and place it on your site.
Or you can see how you include it, and write your own script for including it to fit into your sites layout (Depending on your level of PHP knowledge)
Here are some examples of sites that have used the GIP script:
http://www.jazz2online.com/J2Ov2/gip.php
http://digiex.net/jj2gip/
http://www.dutchfurs.com/~haze/?cat=news&event=gip
Benefits of using this GIP:
* Maintance can take place on the Digiex Server should any changes need to be made, meaning you dont have to do anywork as the updates will automatically show on your site.
* Supports the new "Message of the Day" feature of the List Server Network. (The Jazz 2 List Servers now give out a MOTD changeable via a List Server Admin, future use can include important information/news/updates, or Traftons latest humour)
* Allows colour scheme to be changed to suit any site in question.
* Can collect ingame information and output it into a nicely designed box.
* Script runs within the same internal network as the List Server, allowing a lighting fast 1ms> response to request games in progress.
* Can provide a instant link by clicking "Go" to get into the game without having to load up the old fashioned way of using Jazz2 to get games in progress.
I hope this is useful to some of you, and happy jazz'ing
