WordPress friendly stats scripts (Read 987 times)

I am starting a blog hosted on Wordpress.com and unfortunately they don't allow javascript so the current RA running stats scripts don't work. Plain HTML versions would be very nice. I can only think of linking directly to a particular workout or my log summary page, but that's nowhere near as cool as having your latest workouts and mileage etc automatically updated on your blog. In the meantime if anyone has found a workaround for this, please let me know.

Thanks for the reply Eric! I didn't realize HTML can't really 'pull' fresh data like Javascript can. Unfortunately, after a quick search of the Wordpress forums, it looks like IFrames are also a no-no for security reasons. They are just super-cautious about any potential avenues which could bring down the whole Wordpress community with one malicious applet. If you have your own web host then the risk is only to your own blog, so I guess I'll have to settle for linking to my RA log etc. until I decide to shell out for my own site hosting. Blogger seems to be a little more footloose and fancy free with the javascript, but they have their own drawbacks too.

Instead of an iframe you could use an image. Less flexible, but it would get past the security restrictions. But rather than try to satisfy everyone's need to integrate their data into other applications, why not expose a web service API for accessing the data? Then the rest of us could actually help implementing some of these things. If you restrict it to log data that's already public, it could be dead simple.

If Eric used an image, there would be no need for you to actually "upload" it. You would simply hot link to the image. Whenever your blog is displayed, the image would be pulled directly from RA which would create it on-the-fly with the current stats. The only problem with this is that when browsers download it, they would cache the image so I don't know how well that would work. Eric would have to ensure he sets the appropriate HTTP headers to tell browsers not to cache the image.

Here is what embedding the scripts in Wordpress looks like... http://themeltons.net/run-log/ I supposed I could spruce it up with some CSS, but these scripts aren't very flexible or robust in and of themselves. I keep meaning to look in my temp files for the JScript to see if I could find the calls to the database they make and then maybe try to make the same calls with PHP...haven't had the motivation to do that yet. I would really like to see a plugin developed that would allow me to manage and display my run log from my website. I believe it would actually be a nice advertising opportunity as well; there could be a tag, "Powered by Running Ahead" somewhere in the plugin.