Add-On Releases - World of Warcraft Event Calendar

What does this Mod do?
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This is a calendar mod that supports events created for World of Warcraft that allows signups for mains and alternates. Data for mains and alternates are pulled from the world of warcraft armory automatically and listed/displayed in a table format based on the style of your current site.

Current Version
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Current beta version = 1.2.7 (recommended)
Current stable version = 1.2.6

Whether you are upgrading or installing from new, you ALL need to download the instructions and read them. There is a section for New Installs and a section for Upgrading. Inside there is also a NEW .CHM file (help file) that will also make it easier to read. I kept the instructions file in there as well but it's renamed to wowcalendar.txt instead. Review wowcalendar.chm if you are able to. It works better.

What is required?
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You will essentially need to perform:

• One product XML import
• Two PHP file uploads
• One Profile addition for User Profiles
• One Template Modification
• Uploading image files to the specified path listed in the instructions

Review the "instructions" contained in the zip file before installing this product.

Creating a Calendar Entry
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When you create a calendar entry, single, recurring, etc. - make sure you enable users to signup (located at the bottom of the new calendar event form) (see the screenshot listed in this post). By default, it should place an automatic signup checkmark in that box. Once you submit, users will be able to signup.

Alternates
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If you have alternates on, alternates can be used to signup with (only if people have added additional characters to their user profile. At this time, the calendar only reads the top 3 lines in the profile box so any more characters listed will not be usable in the calendar.

(i.e. if you have 7 characters listed, only the first 3 will be usable.

Armory Data
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Armory Data is pulled as soon as a "registered" user checks the calendar event. This data is then replaced into the armorydata table for use later on with the signups. Remember to set your server and your locale as well. If your server has two words (ex. Scarlet Crusade) you would input Scarlet+Crusade in the server box. If you play on a US server you would put US in the locale box. If you play on a European Server you would input EU in the locale box. Make sure you set all appropriate options.

Options for your Calendar System
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Go into your vb options and you will find two separate sections for setting options - one is for settings and one is for styles. You can change any options in here. Future revisions will include more substitutions/changes in this area.

SPECIAL THANKS TO:
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[name]Farcaster[/name]:
For his initial MOD and ideas which got me started and into customizing the entire calendar. Farcaster's Event Attendance can be found at: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=129088

[name]Gryphon[/name]:
For helping with the original wow parser code and for giving me some tips/advice for working to implement it with the calendar system. In addition, Gryphon, formerly Blackjack, worked with me deeply to allow both this calendar and his current gWoWCharacter mod to be cross-compatible. He also helped with localization. Many thanks!

[elricstorm]

Originally Posted by Gooner

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?

• Download your site.
• When you go to your new hosting provider you point your domain to the new DNS and 24 hours later or less it's in effect. (new hosting provider can help you with that)
• Upload your site.

I would do it similarly to that because your old hosting provider probably doesn't do file transfers.

[elricstorm]

Hyrel, read your PMs mate. I found your issue and posted why it was happening. If you fix the two settings I gave you, it will work 100%. Thanks mate.

[VenomMaster]

Hey elric,

first let me say that this hack is absolutely incredible! I'll consider to donate for this...

But i have a little issue with your Mod. Maybe it's only my fault, but if you have special chars in the charname (like ? or ?), it seems not to load the informations from the database or from the armory.

How can you override this?

See an example here:
http://cm.digitalrose.de/forum/calen...y=2007-6-9&c=1

and meant is this character:
http://armory.wow-europe.com/#charac...n=Jah%C3%AAira

Greets,

Venom

[elricstorm]

Originally Posted by VenomMaster

Hey elric,

first let me say that this hack is absolutely incredible! I'll consider to donate for this...

But i have a little issue with your Mod. Maybe it's only my fault, but if you have special chars in the charname (like ? or ?), it seems not to load the informations from the database or from the armory.

How can you override this?

See an example here:
http://cm.digitalrose.de/forum/calen...y=2007-6-9&c=1

and meant is this character:
http://armory.wow-europe.com/#charac...n=Jah%C3%AAira

Greets,

Venom

The simple answer is I will have to use urlencode on the name before it's passed to the URL. Otherwise the URL can't decode the special characters. I'll do a couple of tests on this. As long as there are no other special characters like apostrophes etc. in a wow name - this should not be an issue and should be a rather simple fix.

[VenomMaster]

Sounds nice. I#m looking forward for it^^ If you need anything, just call

[elricstorm]

Originally Posted by VenomMaster

Sounds nice. I#m looking forward for it^^ If you need anything, just call

Download this product file, import it and overwrite your old one and tell me if it does the trick. If it does, I'll publish.

Thanks.

[VenomMaster]

Wow... that was really fast.

I tried it, but in my case i had to add an utf8_en(de)code. The URI has to be right, since it changes "Jah?ira" to the preferred "Jah%C3%AAira".

But it doesn't seem to save or fetch any data from the armory. If i call the generated URI in my browser, it works, and if i put in another charname, without accents, it works too.

quite spooky...

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WoW, i finally got it. It's enough to urlencode & utf8_encode the name in the url, anything else can be left as it is.

I also added the german translations for the fetched data. I'll attach it below.

Again thank you very much for this really great hack.

-Venom

[elricstorm]

Originally Posted by VenomMaster

Wow... that was really fast.

I tried it, but in my case i had to add an utf8_en(de)code. The URI has to be right, since it changes "Jah?ira" to the preferred "Jah%C3%AAira".

But it doesn't seem to save or fetch any data from the armory. If i call the generated URI in my browser, it works, and if i put in another charname, without accents, it works too.

quite spooky...

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WoW, i finally got it. It's enough to urlencode & utf8_encode the name in the url, anything else can be left as it is.

I also added the german translations for the fetched data. I'll attach it below.

Again thank you very much for this really great hack.

-Venom

Can you reattach the product file with your changes? I'd like to see what you changed. I was actually quite curious about the encoding/decoding and how that would pan out. I figured it would at least get you started in the right area. I can probably add a dropdown for the different encoding types in vboptions and then leave the most common as default. That way the URL would encode correctly based off what you saved.

I believe what you are saying is just to leave the urlencode() in the URL parse and not add the decode() parameters.

[VenomMaster]

Hey elric,

quite right... I removed all en/decode options ad just added one urlencode(utf8_encode()) at the place where the name is passed.
For getting this to work i had to add three Columns in the "armordata"-table.

Since i was very enthusiastic, i changed something more than that:

• Now you have a picture instead of therace and class for every signed up member.
• The Race picture is selected by the race and the gender.
• Completely dynamic change between EU and US-Servers - If you play on EU, all races and classes show up in german, otherwise i left it english...

However, i thik you'll find your way. Here it is! (only the plugin, 'cause it doens't export the template changes...)

[elricstorm]

Wrong plugin. But, I know what you did and what encoding you used. I'm not sure why you had to create three more columns though.

I actually have pictures on my site as well. I do the same with my roster file. However, I just haven't put the code in because I don't like adding things that others can't turn off. So, I'm leaving styles for later on.