Mochiads + GSS how do i add all games at one time?

nx8 · 06-07-2009, 06:27 PM

Hello,

is there an way to add all mochiad games to GSS 4.0?
With the plugin i need to open each game and click add. If i want to add all games, i need a few days :-(

Any Solutions?

freegamegallery · 06-07-2009, 06:59 PM

I'm not sure how to do it with GSS specifically, but the concept isn't too hard. Mochiads will give you an XML or a JSON feed of the games. Its not too much work to write a php script that'll retrieve that feed, parse it, loop through a game at a time and download the thumbnail, swf file, and insert the metadata into the db. You'll need a little php and sql experience to be able to do it. You may even be able to look at the script GSS uses to load a game and copy most of it, passing in just the pieces it needs from the feed for each single game. It may take you a few hours to program it, but better than doing it one at a time.

freegamegallery · 06-07-2009, 07:14 PM

Here ya go, hopefully this may help get ya started. I whipped up some of the php code to take the featured games JSON feed, and parse it looping through each game. All you'll need to do is take the things I parsed out and actually download the game, and insert it into your DB. Replace the MOCHI_PUB_ID with your mochi publisher ID. Hopefully you can pick apart your GSS and find the section where it can load a single game and copy that code or call a function it in. This'll at least get you going looping through the JSON feed specifics though.

Code:

<?php
//
//Construct the url that will contain the game data requested from mochi
//
$game_feed_url = "http://www.mochiads.com/feeds/games/" . MOCHI_PUB_ID . "/featured_games/all?format=json";

//
//Call the URL and get the json feed
//
$json_feed = file_get_contents($game_feed_url);
$json_items = json_decode($json_feed, TRUE);
//
//Parse the JSON feed and get the components of the game
//
$num_games = 0;
foreach($json_items['games'] as $item) {
    //Parse the json data from the feed for a game
    $num_games ++;
    $game_name = $item['name'];
    $game_width = $item['width'];
    $game_height = $item['height'];
    $game_description = $item['description'];
    $game_instructions = $item['instructions'];
    $game_rating = $item['rating'];
    $game_leaderboard_enabled = $item['leaderboard_enabled'];
    $game_thumbnail_url = $item['thumbnail_url'];
    $game_swf_url = $item['swf_url'];
    $game_categories_array = $item['categories'];
    $game_slug = $item['slug'];
    $game_external_id = $item['game_tag'];
    echo "Processing Game: " . $game_name . " game tag: " . $game_external_id;

    //Heres where you'll have to do the real work.
}
?>

06-07-2009, 06:27 PM	#1 (permalink)
nx8 Legendary Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Germany Posts: 524	Mochiads + GSS how do i add all games at one time? Hello, is there an way to add all mochiad games to GSS 4.0? With the plugin i need to open each game and click add. If i want to add all games, i need a few days :-( Any Solutions? __________________ Buy Cheap Arcade Traffic

06-07-2009, 06:59 PM	#2 (permalink)
freegamegallery Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 222	I'm not sure how to do it with GSS specifically, but the concept isn't too hard. Mochiads will give you an XML or a JSON feed of the games. Its not too much work to write a php script that'll retrieve that feed, parse it, loop through a game at a time and download the thumbnail, swf file, and insert the metadata into the db. You'll need a little php and sql experience to be able to do it. You may even be able to look at the script GSS uses to load a game and copy most of it, passing in just the pieces it needs from the feed for each single game. It may take you a few hours to program it, but better than doing it one at a time. __________________ Play Free Games \| Free Games Lounge \| Racing Games Get 10,000 Free Impressions at the Arcade Traffic Exchange! Join Today!

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