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[Turbor]

Well i received my 3 day payment. Thanks for that. Since i have other plans with my bitcoins i'd like to withraw my 50 bitcoins. I'm sure there are others that would like to jump in the spot !

Thanks and good luck with your business !

[pirateat40]

Well i received my 3 day payment. Thanks for that. Since i have other plans with my bitcoins i'd like to withraw my 50 bitcoins. I'm sure there are others that would like to jump in the spot !

Thanks and good luck with your business !

Please pm me so i can keep record of it.

[Turbor]

PM sent.

Money is back. Excellent guy !. 3 minutes after i wrote that i needed the coins back the money is here. If you have spare coins go with pirate !

Thank you very much

Sam

[pirateat40]

PM sent.

Money is back. Excellent guy !. 3 minutes after i wrote that i needed the coins back the money is here. If you have spare coins go with pirate !

Thank you very much

Sam

It was a pleasure doing business.  Thanks!

[pirateat40]

Storage availability has been updated.

[PatrickHarnett]

yes it has - very quickly too

[ineededausername]

Wow... whenever it's >0, someone deposits within 6 hours...

[PatrickHarnett]

I was browsing while waiting for something to update - a dull Monday morning, but I had the coins waiting for the space.

[coin_toss]

Hi pirate,
Please reinvest my interest payments instead of sending them to me.
Thank you

[mcorlett]

I used my basic knowledge of PHP to create a script which will poll the mobile version of this thread for the current balance, and uses PHP's fopen functionality to save it to a text file (available.txt). If it goes from 0 to something above 0, it can alert you.

Perhaps it isn't in my competitive best interest to release this, but maybe this'll get that email notification functionality we've all been waiting for here sooner.

Code:

<?php
preg_match("/Current available space for the storage plan is: ([0-9]+) BTC/i", file_get_contents("https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50822.0;wap2"), $available);

if (!file_exists('available.txt')) {
	echo 'file doesn\'t exist, creating...<br />';
	$handle = fopen('available.txt', 'w') or die("can't create file, make sure php has the necessary permissions to write in the current directory");
	fclose($handle);
	
	// used for testing
	// chmod('available.txt', 0777);
}

$fh = fopen('available.txt', 'r') or die("can't open file");
$saved = fread($fh, 255);
fclose($fh);

if ($saved != $available[1]) {
	if ($saved == '0' && $available[1] > 0) {
		// alert, email, etc.
		echo 'opportunity!';
	}	
	
	$fh = fopen('available.txt', 'w') or die("can't open file");
	fwrite($fh, $available[1]);
	fclose($fh);
} else {
	// nothing has changed
	// you may add your own stuff here, or remove the entire condition
}
?>

[BTCurious]

 
This is clearly the best and cleanest way to write such a script (j/k, but yeah, can't do much else if you're not pirateat40)

[mcorlett]

This is clearly the best and cleanest way to write such a script (j/k, but yeah, can't do much else if you're not pirateat40)

Well, I used the wap page to discard formatting, used a textfile instead of a database for better compatibility. I could've used some self-contained database like SQLite, but that's a lot of work for something this small.

If there's anything else I missed, please let me know. I'm here to learn.

[BTCurious]

What you did was actually the best thing you can do with your current options, but the current options just aren't very good. The worst thing is that your options force you to do a regex against a forum post that's manually updated, this is a bit of a weak point.
If pirateat40 is consistent, it might still work fine though.

[ineededausername]

pirate: I'd be willing to help out with your site if you need any help.
We should get an API up and running for this

[pirateat40]

Hi pirate,
Please reinvest my interest payments instead of sending them to me.
Thank you

Done

[pirateat40]

I'm meeting with a new client today to work out a deal like my other guys.  Word is he's a Big Dawg, so hopefully we can get some more volume from him.

I'll update you when I have more information.

[pirateat40]

pirate: I'd be willing to help out with your site if you need any help.
We should get an API up and running for this

Thanks, I have my main coder working on the site this week but I'll let you know if I need any additional help.

[pirateat40]

I'm meeting with a new client today to work out a deal like my other guys.  Word is he's a Big Dawg, so hopefully we can get some more volume from him.

I'll update you when I have more information.

Update: Well just got done talking with my new client.  He will be the highest volume buyer I have thus far, but won't be ready till after the holidays.  Good times to come.

[BTCurious]

Sounds good You're gonna be rich, man!

[mcorlett]

Looks like you've got a nice little business going here. Keep it up!