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askFRED.net offers three SOAP services that web developers can use to display tournament data from FRED on their websites:
- Past tournaments
- Future Tournaments
- Tournament Results
For instance, a division could post all their tournaments here, and then use these services to automatically display only their division's events on the their own website. FRED provides PHP clients for all three servivces that you can use, or a developer could write clients in their language of choice. Each service works in two modes:
- A "Basic" mode which returns just a formatted string of HTML ready for output straight to the browser
- An "Advanced" mode which returns hashes of data which the client application can use as it sees fit.
You can download the PHP clients here (zip). See the /DOC directory for info, or email the admin. Caveat: There is no WSDL file for these services (yet), so you'll just have to examine the docs and the returned XML for help using the data.
If you use these services, please let me know what you are doing with them. I'd love to know who uses them, and how!
Note: These services are for non-commercial use only. Like all content and data available from FRED, use of askFRED.net webservices is subject to the Terms Of Service, including the provisions against resale of the service.
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