beardedlinuxgeek / awesome-charts

PHP and JQuery solution for visualizing Awesomenauts character stats.

awesome-charts

Web solution for visualizing Awesomenauts character stats. Uses PHP (5.2+), MySQL, JQuery, HTML5, CSS and Javascript. The MySQL database stores the top 5000 ranked users' character preferences.

Setup

1. Not included in the repo: config folder needs to include
2. a .connection.php script with variables storing the MySQL connection configuration (for what's needed check db.php) and
3. a .key.php file for the admin key needed ($admin_key) for some admin features.
4. The folder db_scripts contains the SQL scripts for initializing the MySQL tables.
5. To save historic data for finished seasons run init.php?key=ADMIN_KEY. If the script runs too long, adjust the loop.
6. Make sure update_current.php?key=ADMIN_KEY is called so that the current leaderboard's data is loaded as well.

Data update

To keep data up-to-date, there are to scripts that can be called in automated cron jobs:

• update_current.php fetches the data of the current season. Usual runtime on my test server is a few seconds, can be run every 5 minutes or so.
• update_historic.php script checks whether the last finished season's historic data has been saved. Should run after the end of every season, or on the first day of every month (not sure when the leaderboard switch happens, timing needs to depend on that)

Other notable scripts

• db.php stores the DB singleton object that does all the MySQL data access
• data_functions.php has all the convenience functions
• *chart.php scripts are for displaying the charts and some raw statistics.

Credits

• CanvasJS
• DataTables