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Yup, I've used their XML feeds. Very cool idea for hackers, but unfortunately they are missing some key feeds in my eyes such as player scoring, owner information (security/spam issue here so I understand), etc.
There are alot of people that do stuff with this. Check this out.I was a part of mfladdons.com last season that used this among other skills to make custom sites. I made an app for proxy style bidding using the XML feeds to pull info and integrate it into my site via PHP and MySQL.
MFLhistory is a great addition to my LEAGUE this year. You can even adjust your League Records to match the .css of your chosen site's theme. A good extension to have in Firefox is "Web Developer". You can easily edit, save, and upload the .css to your site or mflhistory. I do some editing of the html and .css in Frontpage as well. I don't have the knowledge or time to learn how to properly use XML but I am all for trial and error and "borrowing" from others.
They just output it in XML because its not really language dependant at that point, I parsed the XML feeds with PHP and input the data into a MySQL DB.
I agree with about MFLhistory real cool addition!!I incorporated it into my team pages here...MFLhistory is a great addition to my LEAGUE this year. You can even adjust your League Records to match the .css of your chosen site's theme. A good extension to have in Firefox is "Web Developer". You can easily edit, save, and upload the .css to your site or mflhistory. I do some editing of the html and .css in Frontpage as well. I don't have the knowledge or time to learn how to properly use XML but I am all for trial and error and "borrowing" from others.
I've got alot of free programs and scripts to work with XML at my house. I should be home late tomorrow night so I'll post some links then top of my heads guesses:Top of my head, Exportizer is a great program. Can find it with google.
That's the beauty of XML really -- it has nothing to do with languages. In a lot of ways, it's similar to html -- you surround each set of values with a set of customized tags.For example, you could have something like this:
I personally had a program that would read various mfl XML feeds (players in DB, player id's in roster, team name etc...) and parse them with php (thanks to help from propost above) and input them into my MySQL db to be displayed on my site, I would then use an Iframe to display them on mfl sites. The site basically looked like your basic FA mfl page, but it allowed you to bid on players and awarded the player to the highest bidder at 1$ over the 2nd highest bidder.I used code similar to this to parse the files and store them in my DB
<?php$leagueid = '#####'; // Put your league ID here$year = '2005'; // Year that you league is / was hosted$number = '20'; // Size of team rosters$file = "[URL="http://football.myfantasyleague.com/%24year/export?L=%24leagueid&TYPE=rosters"]http://football.myfantasyleague.com/$year/export?L=$leagueid&TYPE=rosters";$usercount[/URL] = 0;$matchupcount = 0;$userdata = array();$state = '';function startElement ($parser,$name,$attrib){global $number;global $matchupcount;global $userdata;global $state;$test =($number+1);switch ($name) {case $name=="FRANCHISE" : {$userdata[$matchupcount]["fid"] = $attrib["ID"];break;}case $name=="PLAYER" : {$userdata[$matchupcount]["id"][] = $attrib["ID"];break;}default : {$state=$name;break;}}}function endElement ($parser,$name){global $matchupcount;global $userdata;global $state;$state='';if($name=="FRANCHISE") {$matchupcount++;}}function characterData ($parser, $data) {global $matchupcount;global $userdata;global $state;if (!$state) {return;}}$simpleparser = xml_parser_create('UTF-8');xml_set_element_handler($simpleparser, "startElement", "endElement");xml_set_character_data_handler($simpleparser, "characterData");if (!($fp = fopen($file, "r"))) {die("could not open XML input");}while (!feof($fp)) {$data = fgets($fp);if (!xml_parse($simpleparser, $data, feof($fp))) {die(xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($simpleparser)));}}$b=0;for ($i=0;$i<$matchupcount;$i++) { $fran = $userdata[$i]["fid"]; echo '<b>Team: ' . $fran . "</b><br>\n"; for ($a=0;$a<$number;$a++) { $player[] = $userdata[$i]["id"][$a]; echo 'Player: ' . $player[$b] . "<br>\n"; $b++; }}include 'mfl/closedb.php';xml_parser_free($simpleparser);?>
