Hi Chamel, und frohe Weihnachten!
The Remote Functions feature set is a little inscrutable but quite useful.
There are 3 different tools. I will describe each briefly now.
Tool 1: SE_File_Buffer
This checkbox tells the DCS to copy each .mis file and the resulting log file into the DB SE_File_Buffer table. Simple. This will give your DB a record of the essential played mission files for your campaign. There is no tool set provided with SEOW to interpret, display or modify the contents of the SE_File_Buffer table. If this option is unchecked, the SE_File_Buffer table will remain empty.
Tool 2: MySQL Server Archive Folder
If filled out with a file path, the DCS will copy .mis, .properties and log files into the corresponding path on the MySQL server machine. The path must be a valid path and the MySQL login account MUST support the EXECUTE permission. This is rare for most commercial MySQL servers, as it presents a possible security problem. But if you are running your own MySQL server on your own PC, you should be able to get it to work. The value of this option is that you can easily archive all your files to any folder on the server machine, e.g. a web folder for easy publication.
Tool 3: DCS Web Script URL
This is the potentially most powerful of the three tools. If a valid URL is entered in here, the DCS will send a set of pre-defined SEOW status variables to the URL in HTTP POST format at the end of every Analyze and Build step. The URL functionality is completely arbitrary, so you can write your own web service or script to parse the incoming POST data and do anything you like with it. Possible uses are to synchronize campaign forums with the latest campaign status, build an RSS feed, email commanders saying "Planning now open", or "Planning now closed" etc. In fact, SEOW already comes with such a script inside the MP itself to perform communications with rnzoli's excellent Dynamic Server Coop tool. This script is called MP-CoopManager.php, and it also serves as a reasonably simple example of how to parse the POST data and do something with it in PHP.
Cheers,
4Shades
