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]

Originally Posted by Wobbly Goblin

I just installed the new "product update"...did that fix the problem?

Yup, works now It was an issue with the gamercard popups fyi, which is no longer an issue

[Wobbly Goblin]

Originally Posted by Gryphon

Yup, works now It was an issue with the gamercard popups fyi, which is no longer an issue

Thanks again Gryphon, I'm really liking the new features...very nice!

[Gryphon]

BTW to link directly to a gamertag use gxboxlive.php?gt=GamerTag

[HellBoy]

Great to see a new version out!
The new features are great, noticed a little issue with the ranks, though. For rank 1 through 3 it's displayed like "Rank: 1 1st".

This is by far my favorite vBulletin mod (being the gamerscore +++++ that I am ) so I hope to see further developments on this in the future (especially a gamerscore progression graph generated for the top X players as well as for each user).

Keep up the great work, Gryphon

[Gryphon]

Originally Posted by HellBoy

Great to see a new version out!
The new features are great, noticed a little issue with the ranks, though. For rank 1 through 3 it's displayed like "Rank: 1 1st".

Arrgg, I really hate Firefox, FF users never know when images are broken See this thread, it is missing images.

[HellBoy]

I just noticed when I checked out the examples listed in the main post here.
Looks great now, excellent update and it was a sweet breeze to update, even with my stupidity taken into concideration

[BobbyBlackwolf]

Just installed the update. I have one suggestion:

When you mouse over the gamerscore, you have "Last Post: Today 3:30PM" or whatever. When I see this on a forum, I tend to think it's the last time that user posted a message on the forum - which didn't line up because some of those people on our leaderboard hadn't posted in a while. I later came to understand it meant the last time it was updated from Xbox Live. Perhaps changing the wording from "Last Post" to "Last Update" would alleviate that.

I'm sure I can edit it on my end either with the language or in the PHP file itself, but I thought it's something you should consider for whenever you make a later update.

EDIT: Actually, you used $vbphrase[last_post] for that section, so I just manually edited the style on my end. But perhaps make a new phrase for it in future versions...

-Bobby Blackwolf
http://www.allgames.com/

[jgommel]

Great update! The only problem I've run into is when I manually run the "gXboxLive Update" under Scheduled Task Manager, I get the following error:

Warning: Unable to fetch URL: http://gamercard.xbox.com/dpn_22.card in /includes/cron/miner.gxboxlive.php on line 102
Updated Accounts: 6. Deleted Entries: 0. Process Time: 5s. Total Queries: 58.

The first 2 times I executed the task, it ran just fine, but all attempts going forward give me that error. Any thoughts?

[Gryphon]

Thank Bobby, I will keep that in mind. It was sort of an easter egg just to monitor whether or not the gamertags were updating ok. I will see about changing the phrase.

jgommel, I will see if I can fix the error. But the error is cause by an improper gamertag. Gamertags can not have underscores, gamertag "dpn_22" does not exist, but "dpn 22" does. I will see about putting in some more checks to ensure that users are entering a proper tag.

[BobbyBlackwolf]

Originally Posted by Gryphon

Thank Bobby, I will keep that in mind. It was sort of an easter egg just to monitor whether or not the gamertags were updating ok. I will see about changing the phrase.

jgommel, I will see if I can fix the error. But the error is cause by an improper gamertag. Gamertags can not have underscores, gamertag "dpn_22" does not exist, but "dpn 22" does. I will see about putting in some more checks to ensure that users are entering a proper tag.

No problem - I love the plugin (it's the only one we have installed) - and I like the easter egg because we have some achievement whores who have actually gone "WHY HASN'T MY GAMERSCORE UPDATED I JUST PLAYED AVATAR" and then after we point and laugh at them we can tell them to just mouseover the gamerscore to see when we last pulled their info. I think it's a nice feature.

-Bobby