This is a simple script for those wanting to publish QDKP_V2 DKP totals on their web site.
The html files it produces out of the box are almost black and white - so you will need to wrap some colours and images into it if you want to make it look nice - but everything should be in here to give you a form on your web site that you can navigate to, upload the SavedVariables from QDKP_v2 into the form and hey presto an HTML page is generated with all your Guild DKP listed on it in. Easy as pie.
Read the comments at the top of the php script to tweak things if you want to.
Updated README file - no functional changes from previous versions
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...
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deeproots79 saidHi, I am having problems with viewing logs of raids conducted by other QDKP officers. Is there a way to sync those up? Also I use different computers through out the week and i need to be able to sync the logs with them!! Thanks
Russell Hamilon
deeprootsnursery@hotmail.com
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Kiyan23 saidPlease help! This is the first time I have ever set up a type of server. I set up a virtual webpage and got pretty far but recieved an error.
Checking the output file is writable... ok
Checking the upload file is readable... ok
Checking the size of the uploaded file... ok
Reading the data... ok
(EU - cho'gall) - Contact: website or mail* Use at your own risk :p * *Rozak- $Id: wowLuaParser.class.php,v 1.7 2007/02/22... etc. etc. etc.
\nResultat :\n\n";
print_r($this->content);
print"
"; }}funtion debug($str){if($this->debug) echo
" . $str . "
Any input would be helpful, thanks
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Rozak saidok... that is an interesting set of output!
it is caused by line 84 in dodkpupdate.php file which says:
require_once 'wowLuaParser.class.php';
1) your web server is running a REALLY old version of php - you need to be running version 4.01 or greater to support this - the current version of php is 5.26 and version 4 was killed last year - if you are on a hosted website then contact the person who looks after it to check which version of php they have up and running
2) there is a mistake in the way require_once is working on that php server - difficult to see what is up without having a wade through the php.ini - but again your local web support should be able to help you
3) Your website is doing something very odd with the require_once function (hooked it???) - again local admin is needed I'm afraid
The other thing you can try is to change the 'require_once' to 'require' - that may work with however the system is setup at your end.
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BoaConstrictor saidActually, the problem is the way that the wowLuaParser.class.php script is written.
The start declaration in the script "<?" is the old form for start declaration and isn't recomended anymore. So alot of hosts only accept "<?php" as start of the scripts.
And from the looks of his result, that's the problem. :)
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Kiyan23 saidSo how do I fix it? Or do you know of any free web hosts out there that I could do this with?
-Thanks
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CloudsBreak saidMight I suggest that you change the readme file to a txt file since it cant really be read til after its uploaded to the site and most people might not know to upload then read the readme for install / functionality uses. Also when trying to print the README file it doesnt print properly on 8x10 paper, it crops of the right sides of sentences. Also I have an idea to make modifying the settings file easy. Make it so it can be modified from its web address where you normally see the hacking attempt message. An easy security fix so no one can tamper with it can be added. Maybe something like this. When viewing qdkp/Settings.php make it so you have to enter the default PW and once logged in also have a change PW field where you enter the current PW the new PW retype new PW and so on and so forth. Hope all this makes sense but I think it would be a nice touch. You can also add a field for changing the guild name and a dropdown menu for choosing your faction after you've logged in. So after youve logged in youd have the following on the page.
1. Guild name field for changing your guilds name
2. Dropdown for faction chosing
3. Menus for changing the PW (Current PW, New PW, Retype New PW and then the confirm / change button)
Edit: How would you purge all data so it would look as it does on a fresh install. Basically I'm curious where the datas stored after its been uploaded.
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Rozak saidPrettier version of the README uploaded :)
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Rozak saidok thanks for the feedback - couple of comments
The README file is a text file- you can open it in notebook/browser/word/wordpad/cmd on a PC, textedit/terminal/browser/word on a Mac, more/vi/emacs/cat on a unix box - if you mean 'add a .txt' extension to the file to make it more PC friendly - will do :)
On the printing side - you mean format the text to <80 columns - yes the days of fixed screen sized text viewers and printers I thought were well gone - but done :)
On the security side I have kept it really really simple on purpose. There are sooo many different systems out there - from htXXX to fully driven SQL engines - I really didn't want to do anything other than have a simple password you could just edit easily - if you are smart enough to wrap something around it then you realy do not want to have to be ripping out things I've embedded in there - and if you are not able to do that then editing a simple text file was an easy compromise. The other thing to bear in mind with all of this is the is just displaying the data - if someone does upload the wrong thing then its less than two seconds to fix it. If you feel like wrapping some cookie code in there feel free!
On the guildname side and faction I just thought that was a one time configuration option - I mean it's not like you are going to change the guildname or the faction regularly? Adding another form to do that just makes it more complex for folks to integrate into other CMS systems. As it stands today its almost drag and drop into SMF (which is where we use it - and hook it into the SMF security wrappers and do away with the coded password).
Purging data - easy - just zap the dkp.php file to a zero length file (as it is in the distribution) - every upload you do will overwrite it as well - so you are always replacing the dkp.php file every time you refresh it - the whole point od qdkp was to maintain state in-game not in-website - so that is exactly what this set up does - it is nothing more than a format converter to display the QDKP backup file on a web site - leave the complexity to the QDKP mod and then folks don't have to go setting up databases and SQL and security wrappers here if they don't want to or don't have access to it on web sites they don't control to any great extent.
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Rozak saidJust updated the scripts to add a sort function to the table, clicking on the column headings will now sort the table for you (forward and reverse) by whatever column heading you click on.
I also took the opportunity to change the name of the dkpuplink.php script to dkpupload.php - so your upload links if you have coded them in will need to be changed on your web pages (if you have a direct link to the upload script that is!)
Readme file updated accordingly, instructions for the brave expanded, and I've started a changelog in the zip file.
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Rozak saidsorry been away on holiday :) back now - and we just about to switch to the latest version of qdkp - so will take a look :) sorry for the pause in normal service lol
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hippy saidHiya,
Any chance of getting it to work with EQDKP Plus?
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Rozak saidnope - sorry - eqdkp et al are sort of self contained - I wrote this as I like the simplicity of qdkp and the need to just be able to post stuff up on a web site - idea was to be VERY simple and not require any databases or anything - so unlikely I will have a play around with eqdkp sorry.
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mrobinson833 saidI'm having the exact same porblem as DrSuSe. Was working fine until i updated to 2.5.8-2 version of QDKP. Now i all i get when uploaded is my name (the uploader) and the date stamp of the upload... then it just says 0 charcters :S
Any help much appreciated, thanks in advance.
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Rozak saidok had a play and all seems to work fine for me here. One question - did you adjust the format of the Officer notes in the QDKP mod settings file? I don't think that should make a difference - but I'm curious :)
As usual always happy if you want to send me a copy of your QDKP backup file - I'll take a look at it and see if I can see what the problem is.
The only other thought I had was if you had -ve dkp in there but that is handled correctly (just re-tested it and was fine).
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Rozak saidok :) we havnt switched to latest qdkp yet - just doing that right now - so will get it checked out
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DrSuSE saidHi there. Can anyone confirm for me that this works with the latest version of QDKP? After altering the settings file and uploading, all is reported positively (no errors, all is "ok"). However, on the actual dkp list it has the Reported by name and date and nothing else. I did backup and uploaded the proper file, as well as verifying the data is in the file I am uploading. Thanks.
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Rozak saidWorks for me with the latest QDKP - I've just uploaded a new version of the scripts that I've been testing with the very lates QDKP and it all seemed to be fine here!
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whitecrow saidHi, I am setting up your page but it doesnt seem to like my QDKP_V2-lua(took out the . wouldnt let me post with it here) - I have tried it with several versions, no luck. We where using the lastest QDKP 2.5.7 but I tried the 2.5.3 also
Checking the output file is writable... ok
Checking the uploaded file is readable... ok
Checking the size of the uploaded file... ok
Reading in the data... ok
Loading the data that has been uploaded..The file you uploaded is not in a valid QDKP2 format
any suggestions?
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Rozak saidplease check that you have done a 'backup' in game using the QDKP mod - you ned to do this to take the snapshot data out of the officer notes and to dump it into a clean lua file - see the README for the details
99.9999999% of the time this is the problem when you get that sequence of errors....
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mrthemike saidLooks good, a sortable list would be nice!