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!

This version is for vBulletin 4, installation and stability has not been verified by the author. Visit this thread for vBulletin 3 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://www.alliedtribalforces.com/gxboxlive.php
• http://www.thzclan.com/forums/gxboxlive.php
• http://www.planetside-universe.com/forums/gxboxlive.php

Others

• http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/gxboxlive.php
• http://digiex.net/xboxlive/
• http://www.alanwake.com/forum/gxboxlive.php

Google

• http://www.google.com/search?q=allin...oxlive.php+-gt

Changes
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vB4d - 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.

vB4c - import product with Overwrite enabled, upload gxboxlive.php, functions_gxboxlive.php and miner.gxboxlive.php

• Updates for January 20th gamercard changes. Thanks Travis641.

vB4b - import product with Overwrite enabled.

• Quick xbox.com url changes, there is no longer any way to directly link to add a friend.

vB4a - upload gxboxlive.php, miner.gxboxlive.php

• Quick fixes for errors mentioned, no other updates.

Copyright
[hr]-[/hr]gXboxLive, Copyright ? Ghryphen (https://github.com/ghryphen)
Please maintain copyrights in derivative works, thank you.

overLIB javascript library Copyright Erik Bosrup.

Thank you to msnhockey for helping with the vB4 version.

[ProFifaLeagues]

Nice one Gryphon

[GamerPerfection]

Originally Posted by Gryphon

Yes the gamercards have changed a bit. Working on this atm.

Awesome. Let us know if you need help of any sorts. :up:

[yin9]

Thanks for update Gryphon, now work well for me.

[KissOfDeath]

i get a load of errors when trying to update manually from scheduled tasks

here's an example

Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile(http://gamercard.xbox.com/en-US/NOT%20AN%20XBOX%20GUY......card) [domdocument.loadhtmlfile]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request in [path]/includes/functions_gxboxlive.php on line 407

Ok just figured out one of the members did not put a proper live id in, i edited it and it's working fine now

but on that note their seems to be a problem with it updating the leaderboard if their are to many wrong gamercard links in the database? any solution to this?

Also the showing of member xbl leaderboard rank appears to have stopped showing on the thread pages for me? same for anyone else?

[Gryphon]

I had to make significant changes to the way I parse the gamercards that should be more reliable and easier to fix. It is now using the DOMDocument class, in particular DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile, which honestly, I do not know a ton about but it made things a lot easier, but I'm pretty sure it makes the mod now require PHP5.

If it becomes to much of an issue I will have to try and get the old way to work, but after spending all day on it yesterday and getting two friends to help we could not get the old way to work for some reason.

Originally Posted by KissOfDeath

Ok just figured out one of the members did not put a proper live id in, i edited it and it's working fine now

but on that note their seems to be a problem with it updating the leaderboard if their are to many wrong gamercard links in the database? any solution to this?

Also the showing of member xbl leaderboard rank appears to have stopped showing on the thread pages for me? same for anyone else?

I may have to make some adjustments for bad gamercards. I have always had a check in for them previously that will blank out the users userfield entry after 5 unsuccessful attempts to get gamercard data, but the new parser may break when there are bad cards, I'll have to look into that.

I still do not have vB4, so I am not fully sure how all the templates are setup, but I wouldn't be surprised if the postbit rank display doesn't work. Not sure if or when I would be able to look into that.

[KissOfDeath]

Originally Posted by Gryphon

I had to make significant changes to the way I parse the gamercards that should be more reliable and easier to fix. It is now using the DOMDocument class, in particular DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile, which honestly, I do not know a ton about but it made things a lot easier, but I'm pretty sure it makes the mod now require PHP5.

If it becomes to much of an issue I will have to try and get the old way to work, but after spending all day on it yesterday and getting two friends to help we could not get the old way to work for some reason.



I may have to make some adjustments for bad gamercards. I have always had a check in for them previously that will blank out the users userfield entry after 5 unsuccessful attempts to get gamercard data, but the new parser may break when there are bad cards, I'll have to look into that.

I still do not have vB4, so I am not fully sure how all the templates are setup, but I wouldn't be surprised if the postbit rank display doesn't work. Not sure if or when I would be able to look into that.

I managed to fix if my running the task manually and removing the ones that gave errors back
, the majority of people put "N/A" or "none" also had a few website addresses in the gamertag field for some users from bot's i presume?

I have a valid vb4 license, i can set up a fresh forum on my site and give you admin access for testing purposes if you want?

It will be an empty forum with no users, you'd probably need to create a few users to do your tests, let me know if you want it and i'll set it up for you

[zapiy]

Thanks for the update fella.

[akoj]

Worked perfectly. Thank you. I was wondering if you have any plans to have a forum block with leaders shown?

[GamerPerfection]

Thanks dude, the update works perfectly. :up:

[J875CD060E18]

Stuck on step 4