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.

[OcR Envy]

Originally Posted by Gryphon

Add it from the User CP. I will have to add a fix for the popup method.

@OcR Envy, presence information is only available to XCDP members. I am a member, however I can not disclose the feed source so I must build a proxy service which I currently do not have time for.

You don't have to create your own proxy there are some already out there that are open to public use. http://duncanmackenzie.net/ has a feed from xbox.com, he opened it to the public because it's so hard to get into XCDP(I've tried). PM me if you would like the url.

[Gryphon]

Originally Posted by OcR Envy

You don't have to create your own proxy there are some already out there that are open to public use. http://duncanmackenzie.net/ has a feed from xbox.com, he opened it to the public because it's so hard to get into XCDP(I've tried). PM me if you would like the url.

Ya thanks, I use Duncan's API for some other projects I am working on and with that experience in hand I would rather provide the service for a project this size.

[OcR Envy]

Originally Posted by Gryphon

Ya thanks, I use Duncan's API for some other projects I am working on and with that experience in hand I would rather provide the service for a project this size.

Understandable, would you mind if I attempted myself? I won't release it.

[Gryphon]

Originally Posted by OcR Envy

Understandable, would you mind if I attempted myself? I won't release it.

Feel free to make any modifications you wish for your own use.

[mikeinjersey]

are we allowed to remove the paypal donate copyright ? a few members already thought they were donating to my site.

[Gryphon]

You can remove the donation, but not the copyright. I will probably make this an option in the future when I find some time to work on the mod, I didn't realize it would be confusing to people.

[mikeinjersey]

Originally Posted by Gryphon

You can remove the donation, but not the copyright. I will probably make this an option in the future when I find some time to work on the mod, I didn't realize it would be confusing to people.

ok, that seems cool enough.

one other thing. When viewing posts....near the avatar section where it says "gXbox Live Leaderboard 1st". Can you tell me where to change that to just "Xbox" instead of "gXbox" ? I found corrections for the other sections, but not this one. People might be confused... gXbox huh?

very nice mod , btw

[Gryphon]

Hmm, you must have edited the template to change the title for the other places? They are phrased so you only need to edit the phrases, not the templates. Search phrases for gxboxlive.

[mikeinjersey]

yeah, I did it through the templates like a fool. I always feel weird doing things with that phrase manager...worried i'll screw something up.

Hey, is there a reason why the xbox "email" and "friends" options are defaulted to No ? I was wondering if there was a small security issue with that ? Like if a member tells me his name was hacked...he could maybe blame me for that ? I dunno.

[Gryphon]

Originally Posted by mikeinjersey

yeah, I did it through the templates like a fool. I always feel weird doing things with that phrase manager...worried i'll screw something up.

Hey, is there a reason why the xbox "email" and "friends" options are defaulted to No ? I was wondering if there was a small security issue with that ? Like if a member tells me his name was hacked...he could maybe blame me for that ? I dunno.

Phrase manager is pretty much like the template manager, just edit away, you can always revert. If you edit the templates, you have to do it every upgrade. If you edit the phrase, any template changes will be applied during an upgrade without having to edit it again.

I have it disabled by default just because it is so easy to send friend requests people could just click down the list adding everyone friend or not for whatever reason so I leave that up to the admins to decide. They can not be hacked unless by their own fault and the friend system is already available on xbox.com even without this mod. Nothing would put you at fault.