PBW Emergency Site files v1.51 Finished and fixed.

[geoschmo]

No I did not set a yes in the configuration file, only the mail file. I saw that you added an attribute to the config file but I did not see what it was for so I made it a NO just like your example file. I will try that.

[Ruatha]

Yes, it was redundant, but added in case passwords is needed, then mail.php can be moved to another directory.
And both the owner of the server and the game both have an option of turning it off, sorry for that complex way, I'm not proud of it.
This ver 1 is a botch job....


Another update;
patch 1.421

Complete 1.421

What is new?
-Added new readme.
-Autodirects to main page after upload, pauses 5 seconds first.
-Refreshes main page when it's loaded.
-When all has uploaded, if mail notify host is set to Yes in both configuration.txt and mail.php a message will appear saying that the host is being notified.

[ October 27, 2003, 11:12: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[geoschmo]

Adding the Yes to the config file did it. I got the email. The only odd thing is that the email appeared to come from geoschmo @ s2.ebart.net. Is there a way I can change that? If I can't it's not a big deal. just looks odd.

The only other things I'd really like to see then are two things I think you already have planned. One would be a button to download all the .plr files at once for the host. The other would be a button to upload the new gamefile.zip. This button should remove the current .plr files which will reset the list for the players, replace the gamefile, and email all the players a message that there is a new turn. I think you were planning on doing this from an admin page or something? These two buttons would eliminate the need for my ftp program after I have the game all setup.

Geoschmo

[Ruatha]

Sure, I can set the sender to something generic.

Working some on a admin page:
Progress here
Admin page example (work in progress)

[geoschmo]

Well, generic wasn't really what I was looking for. I wanted to be able to set that and make it show my email as the return address. I imagine that's possible right? Maybe another line in the mail.php file?

[Ruatha]

I've set the Host's e-mail as sender, so you'll send the mail to yourself.
I've finished most of the admin screen.
Now you can:
-Change all data in configuration.txt
-Change all data in deadline.txt including deadline length
-Download all player files zipped into one, clear turnfiles dir.
-upload new turnfile and notify all players that new turn is out.

What to do before I post:
-Ability to change all player data.
-Password protect admin screen.
-Update readme.txt


=will be fixed tomorrow.
Nightie

[Rambie]

Ruatha, you are doing a great job, keep it up! You're much appreciated by us addicted PBW players.

I don't know PHP, nor any programming language that well, so this may be a elementary question... but here goes anyway.

I was having a hard time getting the upload flag to work right. It looked like the IF test for the game name wasn't assigning a value to $testname if the $test1 and $test2 variables were equal. Thus throwing off the second IF statement. So I changed the code in Index.php

---From this---
$test1=strtolower(substr($file,0,-9));
$test2=strtolower("$gamename");
$ett=strlen($test1);
$tva=strlen($test2);
$tre=$tva-$ett;

if ($tre>0)
{
$testname=substr($gamename,0,-$tre);
}

if (strtolower(substr($file,0,-9)) == strtolower("$testname"))


---To this---
$test1=strtolower(substr($file,0,-9));
$test2=strtolower("$gamename");
$ett=strlen($test1);
$tva=strlen($test2);
$tre=$tva-$ett;

if ($tre>0)
{
$testname=substr($test2,0,-$tre);
}
else
{
$testname = $test2;
}

if ($test1 == $testname)


After making the changes the upload verification did seem to work OK. I changed the second IF statement so it wouldn't have to process the 'strtolower' (Convert string to lowercse I guess?) command again when the lowercase data was already in the $test1 and $test2 variables. I'm afraid to say this minor little change took me over 1-hour to figure out.

I don't know why the upload notification wasn't working for me, especially since I didn't see anyone else report any problems with it. But, I thought I would let you know incase anyone else was having this problem.

[ October 28, 2003, 05:32: Message edited by: Rambie ]