Xbox Gamercard Plugin or API?
I’ve been having problems with the Xbox 360 Gamercard Wordpress Plugin… it keeps breaking, failing to download the images and inserting error messages which causes the layout of my blog to fail.
Does anyone know of a good Xbox 360 Gamercard PHP API plugin or standalone code that I can integrate into the site?
Photo by Tom Hensel.
Tags: Blog
Posted on July 4th, 2008 at 6:46 pm and filed under Blogging, Gaming.
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ardamis July 6th, 2008 at 2:30 am (Permalink)
Hmmm, I’m sorry to hear that the plugin isn’t working well for you. Unfortunately, until Microsoft offers the gamertag information to the general public other than as an html page, I’m at a loss for a better way to do it. If you come up with something, please let me know.
You may want to try a few things to improve the performance, though. You could increase the time the plugin will use the text file cache, and/or you could copy the reputation images to your own server and point the plugin at them. Both of these things will reduce your dependency on the http://gamercard.xbox.com/ server.
If you can get me a screenshot of the error message, I may be able to shore up the code there.
-ardamis
Chris July 6th, 2008 at 5:38 am (Permalink)
Hi Ardamis,
Thanks for the comment.
I’m going to reenable it and next time it breaks I’ll grab a screenshot.
FYI I’m using the standalone code integrated into my theme and it seems like when the images fail to load, the whole template breaks, so I presume (I haven’t checked totally) that its inserting some code that causes this.
I’ll also forward on any errors that appear.
Thanks for checking on this, and should it break again I’ll try the things you suggest.