Trying to build a website. Need advice from devs and programmers?

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hi guys!

so im trying to build a video game website

I want to give people the ability to link their xbox gamertags and PSN accounts with my site. I just need their trophies and gaming history.

I spoke with my brother in law's software engineer friend… and she told me to mess around with Playstation and Xbox SDKs.

I believe, in order to pull off the above, ill need to create "API"s right?

would I be able to do that using the SDKs? Also I honestly havent downloaded the SDKs, and I have no programming experience. But… what language is required to achieve what I need above? I read around that the SDKs require C# programming?

thanks guys. Sorry for being a noob.

Wish I had studied computer engineering and science in college instead of business :p the perils of trying to please your family I guess… instead of following your heart..

edit: if there is a better place to ask, let me know! :)

 
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If you dont know where to begin with API's and SDK's I would suggest taking a class or two on basic programming at a local community college.  I have never looked at the microsoft or sony SDK so I'm not really sure what language they use.  

I would imagine that microsoft and sony already have a web-service you could pull the data you are looking for from.  If that is the case then you really dont need the microsoft or sony SDK as you can just pull the data from the web-service.  I do not think your brother in laws software engineer friend understood your question or even worse knows what she is talking about....  The SDK's are for developing software for the systems, not for a website...  

You do know these types of sites have been done many times over and there is a graveyard of them that failed around the web?  I just want to point out if you are thinking this is going to be a easy money grab, the site will just be a time/money dump for you.

 
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Like Thepcgameguy said, the PlayStation and XBox SDKs you're thinking of are for programming games, not for retrieving information about a user's account.  You'll want to make use of some web APIs instead.

Which one depends on which web programming language(s) you're using for your web app.  Here are two options for the PlayStation side of things, for example:

Node.js: https://github.com/jhewt/gumer-psn

PHP: https://github.com/ilendemli/gumer-psn-php

Here's another one for PHP which claims to support more features, but access to their API costs $20/month: http://www.psnleaderboard.com/api/?primary=api

(or you could eschew all three in favor of writing your own implementation from scratch, essentially doing the same as what those projects have accomplished, but that'd be significantly more work)

Those three links are for PSN.  You'd then have to find something similar for XBox.

 
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hey thanks for the input!

and the website im going for is a review website, though the community will provide the reviews. and regarding my goals with this website.... its to help gamers make informed purchases. my concern right now is just organizing the website in a way so that people can get the information they need quickly.

i am actually going to be taking html, css, and javascript classes next saturday. 6 hours every saturday for 3 months.

and i just googled Xbox and PSN web services and it doesnt seem liek there are official APIs..

i guess ill have to create one then?

 
giantqtipz said:
hey thanks for the input!

and the website im going for is a review website, though the community will provide the reviews. and regarding my goals with this website.... its to help gamers make informed purchases. my concern right now is just organizing the website in a way so that people can get the information they need quickly.

i am actually going to be taking html, css, and javascript classes next saturday. 6 hours every saturday for 3 months.

and i just googled Xbox and PSN web services and it doesnt seem liek there are official APIs..

i guess ill have to create one then?
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if you want to recreate the wheel yes, otherwise you can do some research and find ones that have already been created, some free to use, some are paid as josh1billion posted

Would that josh1billion happen to be a guy who had a hand in creating a web based collection app about a decade ago in the chicagoland area? If so I KNOW YOU :D

 
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Also sorry for the double post.

I used wordpress to create a "draft".

redwhiterocket.com

i took a break for a while, because i decided to take classes (which starts next week), to make this look a certain way, and achieve the things i need.

and there is only so little i can do via the wordpress dashboard...

so regarding the API. can i implement them into wordpress?

edit: and i just realized i asked a wordpress question... i guess this is more appropriate in the wordpress.org support forum. but any inputs would definitely help.

thanks again guys

 
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thepcgameguy said:
Would that josh1billion happen to be a guy who had a hand in creating a web based collection app about a decade ago in the chicagoland area? If so I KNOW YOU :D
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Hmm lol, quite possibly. I'm from Wisconsin so pretty close to Chicago. Which app was it?


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so regarding the API. can i implement them into wordpress?

edit: and i just realized i asked a wordpress question... i guess this is more appropriate in the wordpress.org support forum. but any inputs would definitely help.
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Well, you'd probably want to write a WordPress plugin, which would require a decent understanding of PHP and of WordPress itself. I've worked with WordPress myself in the past but never wrote any plugins, so I can't help much there, but there are lots of tutorials online.

 
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WOW, dude! I wish you success in your endeavors. To contain an entire online game you'll need a lot of money to invest in it. Just don't forget that you'll have expenses after creating the game, hosting, PR Agency, promotion of your game, as well as pay salaries to developers. When I created my first game like Grepolis I used hosting mangomattermedia.com they provided me with a large storage space on their hosting and configured all the configurations for my game automatically. Be careful when choosing a hosting service, as you can be cheated and cheatrs will steal the code of your game and sell it on the black market to hackers.

 
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