Originally published here on 4/6/2008.

Yesterday, I wrote up an quick-and-dirty guild roster for my World of Warcraft guild on Boulderfist. There’s no styling at all; it’s just “here, output this table”. But it works just like I want it to: there’s a back-end script that fetches the data from the Armory once every night and feeds it into a mySQL database, and then a front-end page that fetches the data from the mySQL database on demand.

I guess the next step is to style it up and add AJAX; I’ve already got all the data pulled from the database, and it’s not changing (except once a day at midnight), so why not save myself some database calls and have the page update dynamically?

The whole thing has been a nice refresher on PHP (I wrote a very basic roster in PHP a couple months ago, and yesterday’s project was actually built on that, which is why I didn’t just do it in Ruby on Rails, my pet language/framework at the moment) and on web programming. I should do stuff like this more often.

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