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.

[Ross L]

If MS have blocked the API from being used, would using this http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/...gamertag-data/ API work?

[Ronin Storm]

Originally Posted by Ross L

If MS have blocked the API from being used, would using this http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/...gamertag-data/ API work?

I think you may misunderstand. gXboxLive works functionally. Microsoft have blocked all requests that identify themselves as being from gXboxLive. By making the change I suggest you effectively anonymise the request. This won't stop them from automatically banning your host/domain if you make requests too frequently (default frequency is every minute, which is far too frequent anyhow, and probably why gXboxLive was banned in the first place).

The technique described above will work as well, but there's no need to reimplement. Just need to make the request anonymous (or possibly make the request use a new gXboxLive version?) and massively reduced the request frequency (I suggest once per day and being patient).

[Big Barry]

Originally Posted by Ronin Storm

Now, it is possible to remove all the query parameters in that string above and it starts to work again. However, I strongly suspect (with no actual evidence) that Microsoft has banned all requests with that query string involved and their Community Developer terms of service explicitly state that they reserve the right to ban any site or application they consider to be abusing their system.

As a result, I strongly suggest that, if you fancy your hand at hacking out the query string, that you also ensure the gXboxLive scheduled task runs no more than once per day. Abuse may lead to banning and I didn't see any right of appeal.

YMMV but good luck.

Any ideas on how to do this? Sorry I don't know PHP yet.

Thanks.

[Ross L]

Originally Posted by Ronin Storm

The technique described above will work as well, but there's no need to reimplement. Just need to make the request anonymous (or possibly make the request use a new gXboxLive version?) and massively reduced the request frequency (I suggest once per day and being patient).

Would you mind sharing your fix? I tried a few things with my very, very limited knowledge of php (which is how to use a php plugin in VB and that's it ) and a few hours research online and everything I tried failed.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

Ross

[Ronin Storm]

I note in Gryphon's product details that he requests that fixes are sent to him for them to be updated by him, which makes sense as this prevents his code base diverging without his knowledge.

I've dropped him an email with full details of my fix and I'll give him a few days to respond. If he doesn't get back to me at all by, say, end of next week then I'll post my fixes in this thread as "find this, change that" instructions. There's only one code change and one Admin CP change to make anyhow.

[Big Barry]

Thanks, appreciate that. Hopefully it gets authorized as a fix shortly.

Thanks very much

[BlueNinjaGo]

I'll be waiting for the fix. I appreciate everyone's help.

[Ross L]

In miner.gxboxlive.php (line 93)

Find:

PHP Code:

$card_string = fetch_file_via_socket($fetch_url . "?bot=gXboxLive_" . $gxblprod['version'] . "&ref=" . $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . "/gxboxlive.php"); 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

$card_string = fetch_file_via_socket($fetch_url); 


That works for me and it's updating fine now

[NakedCrook]

Fantastic...I can verify the above fix works

[toonysnn]

Hi Gryphon. Great mod you've developed here! I'm having a issue on one of my newest boards, and not quite sure why I'm getting an error 330 (according to gchrome) when trying to visit the page. (it may have to do with a modification I did, it may not..)

The modification I did was to pull stats by username, not by a profile field. This only effected the SQL in the scheduled task.

I currently have gzip compression to 0 on my board, the explained error is:

Error 330 (net::ERR_CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED): Unknown error.

Any ideas?