Introducing a PHP library for that is compatible with Sean Forman’s Baseball Databank database or Sean Lahman’s Baseball Database. This is still in beta.

Download the library from gibhub: Baseball Tools and please consult the readme.

Installation:

• Explode package to your local machine.
• Fill out the necessary database information in /baseball-tools/lib/lib.php.
• Upload the folder /baseball-tools/ which includes your updated lib.php file into your web project.
• Include the package’s “class-baseball-tools-player.php”
• You’re done!

Usage:

Instantiate object like such:
$bb=new Baseball_tools_player($player_id);
for example, if we were to use Ike Davis who’s player ID is davisik01 we would issue the following:
$bb=new Baseball_tools_player(“davisik01″);

Call the associated method containing which you want to access, for example if we want Ike’s age we would call $bb->get_age(); and it would return his current age.

More documentation is to come, for now a function/method list is as follows: (see code comments for instructions on their usage)

• get_age ()
• get_bats ()
• get_bbref_id ()
• get_birthday ()
• get_birthplace ()
• get_college ()
• get_deathday ()
• get_deathplace ()
• get_given_name ()
• get_height_feet ()
• get_height_inches ()
• get_hof_id ()
• get_holtz_id ()
• get_lahman_id ()
• get_lahman_4_0_id ()
• get_lahman_4_5_id ()
• get_manager_id ()
• get_name ()
• get_name_note ()
• get_nick_name ()
• get_player_type ()
• get_retro_id ()
• get_stats ($year [optional])
• get_throws ()
• get_weight ()

Download the library from gibhub: Baseball Tools and please consult the readme.