InLineStats(JS)

By James Battersby

Description

InLineStats(JS) is a Perl script to allow you to display on your own web pages your current Seti@Home stastics. This is a modified version of InLineStats that does not require ASP support by your server. InLineStats(JS) give you access to all of you major statistical information such as the number of units returned, you current rank etc. To be able to use InLineStatsJS you must be able to run Perl scripts on you web server.

Download

Download InLineStats(JS) V1.3 now (2,291 Bytes)

Version History

V1.3 - 13^th July 2002
- Updated to cope with Seti@Home URL change.
V1.2
- Changed regular expression for total CPU time to work correctly with times less than and more than 1 year.
V1.1
- Changed to produce JavaScript output.

Installing

The download file contains two files:

setistatsjs.pl - The Perl script
example.htm - An example of how to use it

You must place these files in directories where your web server can execute them. It is common for the Perl file to be placed in the /cgi-bin/ directory. If you are not sure, you will need to speak to you web server administrator.

Having located the files, you MUST edit example.htm. Replace YOUR-WEB-SERVER with your web sites URL. You MUST also edit the perl script to replace YOUR-EMAIL-ADDRESS with the Email address registered with Seti@Home.

Using InLineStats(JS)

To get your stats on your web page, you need to include setistatsjs.pl like this:

<script src="YOUR-WEB-SERVER/setistatsjs.pl"></script>

This will cause the scripts to run. All of your stats will be placed in a number of variable for you to use as you like. These variables are:

Description	Variable Name
Total units returned	unitsreturned
Current rank	rank
Number of users at this rank	usersatrank
Done more work units than (%)	beaten
Total number of users	totalusers
Time last unit returned	lastreturned
Average CPU time	averagecputime
Total CPU time	cputime

You can insert a variable at any point on your page after including the Perl file. To do this, you need a little bit of JavaScript like this document.write(rank), this will write out your rank.

Finally, it is possible for the scripts to fail. This may be due to the Seti@Home web site being down. To prevent rubbish being displayed, you should initialise your rank to zero before including the Perl file, and check that it is not zero after. Here is an example:


<html>
<head>
<title>My Stats</title>
</head>
<body>
<script language="JavaScript">
rank = '0'
</script>
<script src="YOUR-WEB-SERVER/setistatsjs.pl"></script>
<h1>My Rankings</h1>
<script language="JavaScript">
if (rank == '0')
{
	document.write("My rank is not available<br>")
}
else
{
	document.write("Rank " + rank + "<br>")
	document.write("Users at this rank " + usersatrank + "<br>")
	document.write("Total users " + totalusers + "<br>")
	document.write("Units returned " + unitsreturned + "<br>")
	document.write("Total CPU time " + cputime + "<br>")
	document.write("Average CPU time " + averagecputime + "<br>")
	document.write("Last unit returned " + lastreturned + "<br>")
	document.write("% users beaten " + beaten + "%<br>")
}
</script>
</body>
</html>

The above example is included in the download file.

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