Add-On Releases - gXboxLive - Xbox Live Leaderboard

What is it?
gXboxLive is a modification for vBulletin which allows you to display a Xbox Live Leaderboard for your users.

If you use this mod, please Mark as Installed, and if you really enjoy this mod, please Nominate for MOTM, and if you really really enjoy this mod, feel free to Support Developer! Thank you!

Visit this thread for vBulletin 4 compatible version.

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Support
[hr]-[/hr]I use my released mods daily, if I find an issue with them or add features for myself I will release updates. If there are significant bugs or simple feature requests I will do my best to release fixes. Some of my mods rely on fetching data from 3rd party websites, due to the unreliable results, my mods will require users to troubleshoot for themselves if they find the addon is not working for them specifically. I am offering my personal mods that work ok for me for you to use, I am sorry I do not have time to troubleshoot many user specific issues. Thank you for your understanding.

Features
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• Lists all ranked Gamertags, each updated once per day
• Optionally show unranked Gamertags (Original Xbox Users).
• Optionally allow Xbox Live message sending.
• Optionally allow Xbox Live friend requests.
• Optionally to choose how many User Names Per Page to display.
• Optionally require a minimum post count.
• Optionally to add a navbar link.*
• Optionally to add a miscellaneous quick link.*
• Choose how recently users must be active to be displayed.
• Optionally display leaderboard statistics
• Limit usergroups to display.
• Limit access by usergroup.
• Optionally display Forumhome stats
• Optionally display Memberinfo gamercard
• Optionally display Postbit leaderboard rank
• Monitors invalid gamertags, 5 attempts to verify the gamertag and then the users gamertag profile field is blanked to prevent further checks.
• Can link directly to a gamertag position in the leaderboard with gxboxlive.php?gt=Gamertag

*Depends on your vBulletin version and template configuration.

Installation
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1. Download the latest version and upload all files. Images go in the folders specific to your style.
2. Install the product.
3. Create a Single-Line Text Box User Profile Field for members to enter their Gamertag into.
   • Go to yourdomain.com/forumdir/admincp/?loc=profilefield.php%3Fdo%3Dadd
   • Single-Line Text Box
   • Continue
   • Title: Xbox Live Gamertag
   • Description: Enter your Xbox Live Gamertag
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   • Regular Expression: ^([A-Za-z0-9 ]+)?$[/S] (regex not required)
   • The rest of the settings is your prefrence.
   • Save
   • Look and see what the field id number is for Xbox Live Gamertag, example field25.
4. Fill in the gXboxLive configuration options, make sure to enter the field id for the newly created Xbox profile field above.
   • Go to yourdomain.com/forumdir/admincp/?loc=options.php%3Fdo%3Doptions%26dogroup%3Dgxbl_g roup
5. Send people to their user cp to enter their gamertags.
6. Wait up a few minutes for the gamertags to appear on the leaderboard.

Examples
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• http://alliedtribalforces.com/gxboxlive.php
• http://thzclan.com/forums/gxboxlive.php

Others

• http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/gxboxlive.php
• http://www.alanwake.com/forum/gxboxlive.php

Google

• http://www.google.com/search?q=allin...oxlive.php+-gt

Changes
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v2.2.6 - import product with Overwrite enabled, upload functions_gxboxlive.php and miner.gxboxlive.php

• Updates for April 18 gamercard changes.
• Uses DOMDocument PHP class now for parsing.

v2.2.5 - import product with Overwrite enabled, upload gxboxlive.php, functions_gxboxlive.php and miner.gxboxlive.php

• Updates for January 20th gamercard changes. Thanks Ronin Storm.

v2.2.4c - import product with Overwrite enabled.

• Quick xbox.com url changes, there is no longer any way to directly link to add a friend.

v2.2.4b - upload miner.gxboxlive.php

• Quick fix for miner, no other updates.

v2.2.4a - upload miner.gxboxlive.php

• Quick fix for num_rows error, no other updates.

v2.2.4 - upload functions_gxboxlive.php, miner.gxboxlive.php, import product with Overwrite enabled.

• Minor update, confirmed bogus gamertags do not cause issues with updating the rest of the leaderboard.
• Changed cron output to help find the people with bad usernames.
• Extended strikeout rule for bad usernames.

v2.2.3 - upload functions_gxboxlive.php, import product with Overwrite enabled.

• Reverted, no problems that I can find with leader board.

v2.2.2 - upload functions_gxboxlive.php, import product with Overwrite enabled.

• Temporary fix till more time can be spent to make updates for NXE

v2.2.1 - import product with Overwrite enabled.

• Added NXE avatar display

v2.1.9 - import product with Overwrite enabled.

• Security token update.
• Postbit style update.

v2.1.8 - upload gxboxlive.php, import product with Overwrite enabled.

• Security Fix.

v2.1.7 - upload functions_gxboxlive.php, import product with Overwrite enabled.

• Fix for query error.

v2.1.6 - upload gxboxlive.php, functions_gxboxlive.php, miner.gxboxlive.php, import product with Overwrite enabled.

• Update to close the leaderboard when product is disabled.

v2.1.5 - upload functions_gxboxlive.php, import product with Overwrite enabled.

• Fix for error when running cron manually.

v2.1.4 - upload files, import product with Overwrite enabled.

• Added some safety checks to keep the wrong field id from breaking the forums.

v2.1.3 - upload functions_gxboxlive.php, import product with Overwrite enabled.

• Fixed a broken update query.

v2.1.2 - import product with Overwrite enabled.

• Fix a bug that prevented total number of users to display when stats were turned off.

v2.1.1 - import product with Overwrite enabled.

• Navbar location selectable
• Quick Links location selectable
• Postbit location selection slightly changed, you will need to revisit this setting.

v2.1.0 - upload all files, import product with Overwrite enabled.

• Nearly all database queries rewritten to be more efficient
• Member listing is more stable, shouldn't see people disappear/reappear
• Image directories changed, /rank directory now called /silk
• New images for message user and add friend
• Leaderboard will now properly filter banned users
• New option to choose what usergroups are displayed on the board separate from who can view the board
• Database structure changed, so the leaderboard will need to repopulate after upgrade.
• Updated regex in the instructions above, this makes sure that people enter gamertags in the correct format.

v2.0.2 - upload all files, import product with Overwrite enabled.

• Stats display reorganized
• Gamertag linking is case insensitive now
• Fix for page navigation disappearing for leaderboards with over 1000 members.
• Fix another headinclude bug
• Temporarily disabled user update hooks

v2.0.1 - import product with Overwrite enabled.

• Fix headinclude bug

v2.0.0 - Upload all files import product with Overwrite enabled. Double check settings, field id method has changed, it is digit only now. In case of error upon upgrading from a previous version, uninstall and then reinstall.

• Rewritten much of the caching code to be more efficient
• Optionally display Forumhome stats
• Optionally display Memberinfo gamercard
• Optionally display Postbit leaderboard rank
• Can link directly to a gamertag position in the leaderboard
• Monitors invalid gamertags, 5 attempts to verify the gamertag and then the users gamertag profile field is blanked to prevent further checks.
• Many more improvements

Copyright
[hr]-[/hr]gXboxLive, Copyright ? Ghryphen (https://github.com/ghryphen)
Please maintain copyrights in derivative works, thank you.

overLIB javascript library Copyright Erik Bosrup.

[Gryphon]

Yes, the xbox.com provided gamercards are publicly viewable and will stay that way, they are meant to be. The gamercard is where gXboxLive obtains the data so there are usually only two reasons why the leaderboards fail, the gamertags html changed so that pattern matching fails or the site is unreachable/down. Most the time it is the latter and you just have to wait out the site downtime.

I still hope to optimize this better so that the leaderboards aren't affected as much by xbox.com downtime.

[Kinneas]

Hey, great hack, been using it for a while. Recently though I've been bombarded with several emails a day, content of which is similar to below:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.8:

Invalid SQL:
REPLACE INTO gxboxlive_games SET
userid = '21',
title = 'PES2008',
link = 'http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/Achievements/ViewAchievementDetails.aspx?tid=%09%5d%3a%13%1f%5d %1fGup&compareTo=Vardoc',
image = 'http://tiles.xbox.com/tiles/7O/LN/12dsb2JgbA9ECgR6G3UfWSpVL2ljb24vMC84MDAwIAABAAAAAP ji4vM=.jpg',
updated = '1199784849';

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number : 2006
Date : Tuesday, January 8th 2008 @ 09:35:11 AM
Script : http://www.evolution-guild.co.uk/cron.php?&rand=944878
Referrer : http://www.evolution-guild.co.uk/new...?do=recruitwow
IP Address : XXX.XXX.XX.XXX
Username : Unregistered
Classname : vB_Database

I have reinstalled the product which has not helped. Does anyone know why this may be happening?

[Gryphon]

See this regarding "MySQL server has gone away". It appears that you are losing your MySQL connection during the update process. How many gamertags are in your leaderboard?

[Kinneas]

16...which I believe is correct, it's only a small forum.

Would a timeout value be causing this then? Do these queries take longer than usual vb functions to execute?

[Gryphon]

It does take longer as it has to fetch xbox.com once for each gamertag and then make mysql query for each tag it finds. So the cron takes some time to run, the update process could really use some more optimization if I could just find the time to rewrite it.

As far as the error goes, I am afraid it is beyond what knowledge I have of the process.

[Kinneas]

I've recently downgraded to shared hosting so I don't have control over the MySQL settings etc. I'll see if they will increase the timeout value and see if that helps.

Thanks for your assistance.

[Gryphon]

Originally Posted by Kinneas

I've recently downgraded to shared hosting so I don't have control over the MySQL settings etc. I'll see if they will increase the timeout value and see if that helps.

Thanks for your assistance.

No problem. I have started working on updating the cron which will break up the process a bit.

[kindi_boy]

Hello,

I would like to say this is the best product i've ever seen.
also i need help with a little problem
the pictures that i uploaded are not showing up
i've checked the paths they are right.

am not really sure what's the problem
please help

[Gryphon]

Thank you. Regarding the images, make sure if you are using a custom style, that the images are in the misc folder for that particular style.

[kindi_boy]

worked like a charm! thanks a bunch!

now for something else if i need to translate just the "Send a Message To ????"
and the columns titles just the stuff that appears to people, any idea how to do that?