Whenever you join a BatlleField: Heroes server a ‘Tip of the day’ is displayed. I was wondering where I could find all the tips and if anybody had already done something with them (i.e. create a service to get a random tip).<\/p>\n
I couldn’t find anything after a Google search, so I started looking around. It turns out that all in game copy is stored in a file called ‘strings.csv<\/em>‘. If you have BF:Heroes installed in the default location, you can find it here: ‘C:\\Program Files\\EA Games\\Battlefield Heroes\\mods\\bfheroes\\Localization<\/em>‘. This file is a comma separated values file which you can open with Notepad and even Excel.<\/p>\n The bits I needed to have tips displayed are the rows starting with ‘WEST_FE_Loading_tip_ingress_<\/em>‘ and ‘WEST_FE_Loading_tip_text_<\/em>‘. What I’ve done for now is copy those fields over into an XML file: http:\/\/ansuz.nl\/php_lib\/bfheroes\/tipoftheday.xml<\/a>. I guess a next step could be a little script (or AIR application) that takes the ‘scripts.csv<\/em>‘ file and converts it to XML in the format I need.<\/p>\n I then created a small PHP script to load the XML file and display a random quote, see here: http:\/\/ansuz.nl\/php_lib\/bfheroes\/tip.php?method=randomTip<\/a> The final bit I did is loading a random tip on a site with my BF:H stats and applying some styling to it: http:\/\/ansuz.nl\/bla\/bfheroes\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whenever you join a BatlleField: Heroes server a ‘Tip of the day’ is displayed. I was wondering where I could find all the tips and if anybody had already done something with them (i.e. create a service to get a … Continue reading
\nThe first line is the ‘tip header’, the second the ‘tip body’. Both are wrapped in a ‘span’-tag with a unique class name so you can style it the way you want.<\/p>\n