Best way to save information persistent

[Dovev]

Hey guys,

at first let me tell you that I am barely new to professional Arma scripting. There are a lot of scripts I have used and modified but I have never released a single one. So please don´t slap me if I am thinking of wrong solutions ;).

For my Epoch servers I am looking for a way to store a counted variable on a persistent way. I would like to count the connections for each player and post them like a welcome message when he is joining.

In my horrible kind of thinking I have three ways I could go:

1. Find a way to store/read these information at the redis database epoch is using (in a special table)
2. Write my own C# modification to provide access to the filesystem (I have worked with C# on other projects in the last years but might return errors because of BattleEye?)
3. Use a complete external MySQL Database in combination with the MySQL Class released for Arma 2 (Is this even working? I have seen some Mods using it in Arma3 I think)

If this would be possible, I would like to call these functions from my mission.pbo .

After a few days of searching different forums and google without any usefull results I decided to create a topic here (Maybe I am searching with the wrong keywords?). So if anybody would be kind enough to give me a hint in the right direction or tell me some little tricks where I might find a solution for my problem, this would be awesome.

 

Thank you for your time and help

Dovev

[vbawol]

You can certainly store most any custom data in the Redis database you want and will be able to leverage our existing functions. We should have example usage and documentation out very soon to go along side our server framework project.

[Dovev]

This is awesome! Right know I am testing around with iniDBi to save/read stuff in-game and get it from my web interface I am creating for epoch Servers.

[IT07]

If you do not care about the player being able to change the count; you can use https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/profileNamespace