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 leaderboard is working fine it appears. I released a quick update by peoples reports here alone, but I can not find any problem with the leader board. I will be releasing another update soon, but I don't know why people are having trouble other than just gamer card service outage.

Originally Posted by Joe Siegler

I did the suggestion earlier, and blanked my sql table, and reran the script. It's adding people back, and now appears to be working right.

It only checks once a day, so when the gamer cards were down your leader board was blanked, it would have been fine tomorrow with some patience.

People need to understand that this mod relies on the stability and availability of the gamer card server to work. I wish I didn't bite on the panicked posts here, not sure why such an urgency in a couple days outage of the leader board.

[Blumy]

Originally Posted by Tanzy

OK based on the information that I posted above. A quick fix is to have your users not set thier gamer card pic to the avator. Just tried on my XBox account and it is now showing in the leader board on my forum

http://www.ninjafatpigeons.co.uk/forum/gxboxlive.php

how'd you get the rollover to work? I like it.

[Gryphon]

Originally Posted by Blumy

how'd you get the rollover to work? I like it.

It is part of the mod.

[Joe Siegler]

Originally Posted by Gryphon

It only checks once a day, so when the gamer cards were down your leader board was blanked, it would have been fine tomorrow with some patience.

Patience is not one of my strong points.

On top of that, people were asking me what's going on. If it was just a matter of dumping the tables and forcing it to re-run, I have no problem doing that.

[Joe Siegler]

Hey, a suggestion I made some time back, probably got overlooked.

Any chance of giving us the option to locate the gXboxLive link underneath the new Community dropdown? Right now it's in Quick Links, but I'd rather have it in the community one.

Tkx.

[Gryphon]

Originally Posted by Joe Siegler

Hey, a suggestion I made some time back, probably got overlooked.

Any chance of giving us the option to locate the gXboxLive link underneath the new Community dropdown? Right now it's in Quick Links, but I'd rather have it in the community one.

Tkx.

Sorry, I didn't reply to the suggestion earlier. I did look into it, however vBulletin is not providing any template hooks in that menu right now, hopefully they will add it. I could work around this with some extended work on my part, but I would prefer to just use a template hook.

[Slam Da Brakes]

Just wanted to say GREAT mod!

Just a quick question, I have 2.1.9, do I need to update for NXE or should I just wait a couple of days as it will all go back online soon? My list is currently blank.

[Joe Siegler]

Originally Posted by Slam Da Brakes

Just wanted to say GREAT mod!

Just a quick question, I have 2.1.9, do I need to update for NXE or should I just wait a couple of days as it will all go back online soon? My list is currently blank.

You should always have current code.

[Slam Da Brakes]

Thanks!

Sorry about this, but how do I update? Do I re-install the new version? Or is there a quicker way?
I had someone else install the mod for me so I am a bit clueless. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

[Gryphon]

Originally Posted by Slam Da Brakes

Sorry about this, but how do I update? Do I re-install the new version? Or is there a quicker way?

Upload the files in the upload folder via ftp to your forum directory overwriting the old files, then in your admincp import the product with overwrite enabled.

NXE will not break anything regarding the leader board, if you are running an older version it will work fine, as long as the gamercard service stabilizes.