Dynamically generate image with BF1 server information in real-time in PHP using battlefieldtracker API JSON data.
- Upload "sig.php" and "/media" directory to web server.
- Obtain an API key from https://battlefieldtracker.com/site-api
- Open up "sig.php" and replace YOUR_API_KEY with your battletracker API key inside of
getData()function (in curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER....)
When additional maps are released, you'll need to add new background canvas images containing a thumbnail picture of the map into the /media/img_canvas/ directory. The GIMP image template titled "banner template.xcf" is included in this directory.
Warning: If testing this on a local Windows-based Apache server (e.g., XAMPP), you'll need to add the SSL sertificate per directions here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29822686/curl-error-60-ssl-certificate-unable-to-get-local-issuer-certificate