I just realised, The only real big issue i have with this system is that every update i install all the raid signup information gets lost, which means another 40 people needs to re-sign, and because our guild raids almost every night, This can be quite a big issue...

Is there any way around installing updates without losing the sign information?
If not i guess i can just copy/paste the sign information to the forums.

yeah dont uninstall the previous version and just allow overwrite when you import the product file.

Correct. Don't uninstall and reinstall the product. Doing that causes all of the tables to be removed and that's why you are losing your information. Just import the product and choose "overwrite" yes. You only have to uninstall and reinstall if you were upgrading from any version that came before the alternates system was implemented.

1.2.2 will come tomorrow as I left my flash memory key at work with my code on it. :) - lol

sweet, look forward to 1.2.2 and thanks for the help :D

1.2.2 and 1.2.3 are combined - I'll be adding the product update this afternoon. Also, it's moving "a lot" faster now with the way I've worked on the design. There will be a functions.php file to add to your /includes folder now and I'm building a .chm documentation file so that it answers all questions regarding the system. Everything should be in place by 5 pm today.

Zoom zoom zoom!

Looking forward to the new release since 1.2.1 works, but doesn't pull any info from the Armory.

yeah, elricstorm's explained about that a problem with the curl timeout string within the code. If you need to get it sorted, download the previous versions zip from this mod and install version 1.2.0. just overwrite the data and don't uninstall so you keep your info

Version 1.2.3 released

Please download and read the .chm instructions or the .txt instructions. CHM is nicer to look at and read. You have to do one PHP file upload now as well. They are both contained in the instructions.zip file.

Version 1.2.2 and 1.2.3 Combined changes

• Created a wowcalendar_functions.php file that houses the wow parser. This was done to keep from encountering declaration errors that surfaced when viewing multiple events on a particular event day.
  
• Created a new wow parser code that includes better checking and curl features for armory data retrieval.
  
• Created a new .chm file to house all of the installation instructions, creation events, troubleshooting issues, and version notes.

Special thanks to Blackjack for his advice on the wowparser for the armory. I redesigned it based on his design coupled with the new curl features. It works pretty solidly now.

great dude, thanks, downloaded and installed

Installed it.. seems to work great. Thank you for the time you put into this.

Thanks for your hard work, Keep it up :D your doing a superb job., looking forward to 1.2.4

Working very nicely so far... if I get any errors I'll post em... great work :)

Thanks everyone. I really appreciate the kind words. I also appreciate the fact that you have been influential and supportive of the project by providing positive and negative feedback, and reporting any errors that surface. Community efforts drive projects and that means a lot to me.

*scratches head* Ok, I know I'm missing something stupid and that's why it's not filling in the tables. The fields are set correctly, checked that first. The php file is in the forum includes. Does it matter that my file system is forums instead of forum?

And installed the new xml file. No errors ^_^ but no armory data too.

Anyone who does coding should be nominated for sainthood /bow to the code master. This stuff gives me headaches ^_^

Love the new instructions btw, they look sexy.

Installed and set up 1.2.1 and everything was working beautifully. Had events created, users signing up for 'em, and life was good. :cool::up:

Upgraded to 1.2.3, and now getting "Unknown function: curl_init()" error. :( working on the issue with the host. I (and my users) love the add-on. I'm just hoping I can revert to the old version without erasing all my event data, until I can figure something out with my host, again. :erm:

Weird. cURL library wasn't included on the server. Time to recompile! :D

Yeah, that was the only reason why I waited with adding cURL to the code because I knew there would be some instances where the library was not loaded on the server. However, most hosting providers are now formally loading them since it is a much better library to work with where authentication is concerned. :)

Thanks - btw, did you get yours working. So far everyone says it's working great. I just want to make sure I didn't miss something in my instructions. :)

Not yet =/ getting a friend to look through my code and see if they can find where I went astray.

Version 1.2.3 is now the new stable version. When I come out with version 1.2.4 - the new version will be the beta version and 1.2.3 will be the stable version.

My only problem is when I create recurring events, the only one that shows up on the calendar is the first event of that sequence. Is this a vBulletin thing or is my board messed up.

I get this error with 1.2.3:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: curl_init() in /home/gooner07/public_html/includes/wowcalendar_functions.php on line 10

Any reason why?

i did everything exactly by instructions, This was a clean install since my site got totally wiped today because of a critical hard disk error.

I have some hidden issue on my board *grumbles* SO seeing how the guild is not using it yet and I hate looking for bugs, I'm going to purge the database and delete the files off the server and start over. I have a feeling it's an addon or mod I was trying out and thought I removed all traces of but missed some, missing things up. I was messing around with some memberlist mods and I have a feeling they are the ill messing things up -.-

Thanks again for all your help. For 2 years I've tried to find something that does what your doing. Phpraid was awesome except the lack of VB integration. And since guild members worldwide seem to suffer from the same laziness when it comes to using the guild website, different signups meant a good portion of the members wouldn't use it. Some because they are lazy; some because they are really clueless when it comes to the internet. So thank you again for making this available and for helping all us code noobs get it working ^_^

I was getting that error at first. I did a phpinfo() and found that Curl had not been compiled into the php. Once I recompiled, everything was fine.

it seems my hosting company are still setting up the server, which earlyer today had a new HDD installed, i was told i needed to wait :P

well so far mine works great without a single problem :D

ok... now I'm truly perplexed.

Clean install of VB on a clean DB. After the installation I setup the VB settings and installed the mod. Followed the instructions to the T. Since it is a clean install field5, field9, and field10 are used for character name, alternate 1 and alternate 2. I wasn't sure if fields 6, 7, and 8 needed to be empty so I made dummy fields and deleted them to get me to field 9 and 10. Same problem as before. No errors are coming up. Everything works except it isn't getting the armory data. So the class total data is empty and the class, level, and race fields are empty. Going to do some diging see if I can find anything.

Here's a screenshot of the database tables...not sure if that helps any. the output is the same as the past screenshots.

No problems with recurring events on two test boards. Not sure exactly what you mean but most likely a vbulletin thing.

I'll add that to the next set of instructions. Yep, your hosting provider needs to install cURL library for your PHP compile. It's a very simple standard library that all hosting providers should include by default now anyways due to authetication.

Try placing an data insert in the armorydata table for your ID and see how the display works. You do not need to create more custom fields to get this to work with yours.

If you want, PM me and provide me a testuser account that has some admin privs to it and I'll look over your board and tell you what's going on. I won't be able to look over anything until tomorrow afternoon (sunday) but it's your call mate. :)

Take care.

Well, i thought it was, but my hosting company says that the cURL libarary is definatly 100% installed and compiled with PHP but i still recieve this error when trying to view an event ive made...

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: curl_init() in /home/gooner07/public_html/includes/wowcalendar_functions.php on line 10

Any ideas.?

Check your phpinfo and find out yourself if it's there. Look to see what you have.

You should see something like:

CURL support enabled
CURL Information libcurl/7.13.1 OpenSSL/0.9.7f zlib/1.2.2.2 libidn/0.5.15

There is nothing on my PHPinfo script which says anything about CURL, i think its a simple case of Sh*t hosting, Can anyone advise me a good hosting company, A european one would be good, Im sick of my current host, My site has been crippled for several days and they wont fix it... Ive told them if they dont fix it i will move host... they are...

http://www.webhosting.uk.com/

Avoid them, The technical support is very poor, and my website has been down for 4 days....

Any advise on decent European host?

Hrm, haven't looked deeply into hosting but you want to try to stay away from virtual hosting accounts if at all possible because you usually don't have any way to edit things yourself.

I would look for a hosting company that either provides "dedicated virtual hosting" with SSH capability and root access. If you can find that you should be fine. I use IPOWER which provides that capability and I'm able to load and install anything on my dedicated virtual server.

The error you had listed above is definitely an issue with curl not being installed/configured as a library. Let me know how it works out mate. In the interim, I'll see what I can do about providing a "non-curl" php file shortly. I moved the parser to a functions file so that I could eventually provide non-curl and curl support for people.

Gooner try this file and write your other file as OLD_

Let me know how it works.

Hyrel, check your PMs mate and read my notes. I looked over your site and I'm 100% positive it's mysql related. Read notes, run tests per my notes, and let me know what you find out.

Thanks mate, ive requested a few things from my host, so im waiting to see what they do, if not, im moving host, the only problem though is i dont know how to move my website domain to a new hosting site. anyone know?