PS status script [LEGACY]

[derula]

Updated script to use new server.

Edit: Fixed bug in PHP example on the website ^^'

Edit2: I have added a more complex example.

[derula]

Just added another feature to the script.

You can now use an URL like,

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http://psstatus.uglyhorst.de/MyForumName:These,Are,My,Characters.png
and it will show only "MyForumName is currently online." if one of your characters is, or "~ offline" if all are offline.

For example,

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http://psstatus.uglyhorst.de/derula:Jamona,Togh,Aburan,Jana.png
will only show my nickname, displaying it as online, if either of the specified characters is logged in, or offline otherwise:



If you only specify an alias and a single character name, it works as well.

I also fixed a few bugs that would occur when the script fails to determine the online status of people.

(Btw., my offer to replace anyone's text online description with an image is still there, and extended to multiple characters. That was also the point of this update)

[BoevenF]

 

[LigH]

Regarding your example: I suppose it is recommendable to omit any spaces?

[derula]

Regarding your example: I suppose it is recommendable to omit any spaces?

Depends on your software I guess. Works with spaces for me; the code for the example contained spaces, I guess SMF auto-escapes them. Firefox also auto-escapes spaces.

Main reason for me to use spaces was to make it more readable. So yeah, if unsure, remove the spaces.

Edit: Just saw that apparently SMF doesn't auto-escape them. Works for me nonetheless, but I guess you're right. *edits post*

[derula]

The script had a small outage today and maybe parts of yesterday because I was changing hosts. It's fixed now... hopefully. It should work correctly again in about 10 minutes. Please tell me if there's still problems after that!

[BoevenF]

Thanks Derula, it's ok so far

[derula]

Update: 'cause my webhost apparently decided to block outgoing UDP traffic now without informing me, my status script stopped working like a month ago (possibly longer). I disabled the enhanced server check features now (nobody was using them anyway) and the script should work again.

Sorry for the inconvenience. Feel free to contact me if things break again.

[derula]

Update: A little over a week ago, my webspace went through a migration, and the status script broke as a consequence. I didn't have much time to deal with it, but it is fixed now.

[bilbous]

Thank you for your efforts, now and in the past.

[Illysia]

Thank you derula.

[derula]

You're welcome

[derula]

Added an improved JSON API, adopting a proposal by Neeno. Added short descriptions for the functions I've implemented to far, see the new section "Advanced JSON API" at http://stuff.incertitu.de/planeshift/status%20script. New functions can be implemented easily, so if someone has a suggestion, just say a word, and maybe I'll do that!

[Illysia]

Hi Derula o/. If you happen to see this, the status script says it can't connect to the database now.

[derula]

Illy o/

That's strange... well, there was a server migration a few weeks ago, but it worked fine after that... I'll have a look, thanks for letting me know.

Edit: I see the problem. There's actually two different versions live right now... one works and one doesn't. I wanted to make the old version redirect to the new version at some point, but never got around to doing it.

This is broken:

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http://psstatus.uglyhorst.de/Illysia:Illysia,Danao,Zandral.png

This works:

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http://ps.incertitu.de/Illysia:Illysia,Danao,Zandral.png

I'll fix the old version when I get around to it... maybe today / tomorrow, or on Monday... in the meantime, you can use the new link.

Sorry for the inconvenience - I checked the new link after the server change but didn't think the old one could be broken if the new one isn't.

Edit 2: Fixed already that was faster than I thought it would be.