Does anyone have an easy to use status script to ping game servers from a website and see which map and how many players they have currently playing. I used to have one for php nuke but seen as i am no longer using php nuke i need an alternative.

there are a great many that use the game spy protocol/quake 3, if your up to a little bit of messin with perl try:
http://www.sf.net/projects/playergraph/

www.phpua.com