[elricstorm]

Product updated to 1.2.1 with cURL changes in effect. I believe this is the best route since fsockopen behaves indifferently with the armory. Let me know if your site performs any better with the code.

The default setting is 10 seconds for timeout. You can edit the default timeout and set it to whatever you would like in your vboptions. The setting is there. And, yes, this time it does work. If you test with the timeout settings, let me know what you feel is a good round timeout number response for both US and EU armory sites. I'm guessing that the safe bet is to set it to 15 seconds but I'll do that just for my own site. Some of you might want your events to load up faster so you could just set it back down to 5 seconds.

I looked at the armory tonight and did a couple of search character tests and it looks like both armory sites are having severe trouble with style sheets and xsl data. So, this might be why the armory is unresponsive.

The timeout is only meant as a workaround for when the armory is down. I'll provide three quick scenarios on how this code will work now:

Scenario One: Armory responding fine with no issues
-- Your calendar will move fast
-- Events will show up quickly
-- Character data will be populated into the armorydata table for main, alternate1, alternate2
-- Alternate1, and 2 are optional so it will bypass these completely if they are blank

Scenario Two: Armory not responding (after) you've populated your database with previous events
-- Your calendar will delay to "x" seconds based on the timer you set
-- Events will show up after "x" seconds based on the timer you set
-- Character data will not be populated into the armorydata table overwriting "good" data
-- Character data will be shown on your events based on what already existed in your armorydata

Scenario Three: Armoy not responding and a "new" member who never signed up before signs up
-- Your calendar will show drop downs for the fields the new member added in their profile
-- Because the armory is non-responsive and the character never had data in the armordata table, fields will show up blank besides character name.

Scenario three is the one scenario I would like to work on. So, I need some input on what you want to see in your table for data that is not there. This would only be for character data that was never populated ever, and it would only show until the next time the character visited when the armory was back up.

Keep in mind, once your databases are fully populated with some type of information, you won't see any issues like this. The worst you would see is "outdated' information because the character info wouldn't have been updated. Again, any input on this would be nice.

Thanks everyone.