This might be a ‘newb’ post but as im not very good with unity (i have used it before but still a beginner). I want to make a mobile application which will be used to feed in sports news, for example the premier league - tables, fixtures, scores, transfers…the whole bit.
Because I am still new to unity, I was wondering if anyone shed some light on how I could approach this, I have enough experience with c++/c# and javascript.
Where is the information you’re looking to pull from? Various feeds?
I think the easiest way is to use php to grab the content and store it in a database on your sever, then your app simply connects to your db to retrieve the information.
In unity, to connect to your db this is an example with the WWW class: http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php?title=Server_Side_Highscores
If the feeds are in xml or json, you could grab them directly from Unity and parse the xml to get the content.
Thanks for the reply. Yes they would be. Okay I understand, one issue someone told me I could come up against is if the layouts of the ‘feeds’ change, would that affect how the information is pulled?
You can use the string class to work with the names of elements/attributes that you’re looking for. Only reason I mention php is because it’s trivial to make a crawler that can pull data from scraping other websites.