Eq Browser : Allakhazam Clone

[Ayala]

Sent to you gernblan. Also from gmail so you should have it already most likely.

[gernblan]

Got it! Thanks!

Ok hosted and here it will stay for a long time to come (unless someone updates it of course... if you DO, send it to me and I'll host your changes too!)

http://stash.buttwrenching.com/eqbrowser-0.5.3.tar.gz

[Bulle]

I installed this neat tool this morning. Of course I encountered the register_variables quirk, that I fixed by putting the following in the config.php file as I did not want to change my system-wide php.ini :

import_request_variables("gp");

I also had to define the following in my config.php file otherwise I was getting errors :
$IgnoreZones=array();

Anyone else had this problem ?

Anyway, very neat tool. Chapeau Muuss, if you still read that ! And thank you gernblan for hosting it.

[Bulle]

After discovering EQBrower I made quite a few improvements to it, which I would share with the community if there is interest.

From my understanding this tool is now "orphaned", and may be I could take charge of it for a bit. I tried to contact Muuss at the email mentioned in the README but got no reply. It would be nice to have this open-source.

In a nutshell here are the changes I did the last couple days. I probably broke other stuff doing it , but for the time being it suits my need. The most notable changes may be the icons (easy but useful) linking to the PEQ Editor. That way EQBrowser can be used for searching/browsing, and PEQ Editor for changes.

- (Bulle) code cosmetics change (privilege when working on an orphaned project).
- (Bulle) Indentation of the generated HTML code - first shot at XHTML compliance.
- (Bulle) Make the top part of the page (header) optional through a flag in config.php.
- (Bulle) Made "faction.php" and "factions.php" interoperate. If "faction.php" is passed an invalid faction it redirects to "factions.php". If "factions.php" finds one and only one faction it redirects to "faction.php" with the found faction.
- (Bulle) Made "faction.php" more Wiki-friendly : it accepts both an 'id' and 'name' parameter. If the 'id' parameter is non-empty it is used. Otherwise if the 'name' parameter is not empty it is used to query for the faction.
- (Bulle) Same remarks for "npc.php", "npcs.php", "item.php" and "items.php"
- (Bulle) Added icons in factions, NPCs and items to link to a PEQ Editor and Lucy when possible
- (Bulle) Diverted the place where NPC images are searched for. Now it links to a Mediawiki installation (which has to be installed) used to store the images. Allows for much easier image upload as no access to the server filesystem is needed
- (Bulle) Added two "generic" search fields in the menu bar, one for searching on the name, one on the ID. It looks for items, NPCs or factions
- (Bulle) Displayed the IDs of objects in many places, which makes life much easier for the world builder

[cavedude]

Originally Posted by Bulle

The most notable changes may be the icons (easy but useful) linking to the PEQ Editor. That way EQBrowser can be used for searching/browsing, and PEQ Editor for changes.

I would so be interested in that once you get everything squared with Muuss!

[nosfentora]

Had a problem running 'perl import_spells.pl'

it would error out with 'cat' is not recognized as an internal or external command.... etc

after a little searching i found this:

cat -> perl -MExtUtils::Command -e cat

i replaced
@ids=`cat $spellfile`;
with
@ids=`perl -MExtUtils::Command -e cat $spellfile`;

and it ran fine. Hope it helps!

[slowglass]

Bulle, I tried to contact Muuss about a year ago but had no luck.
It was the main reason that I rewote my Alakazam - emulator from scratch.

There was not much interest in it at the time (and I stopped playing with the emulator) so I pulled the software. If people are interested I can repost it (once I have checked it out for bugs).

The code is all open source so people are free to do what ever they like with it.

Comments are always more than welcome.

[fault]

Originally Posted by Bulle

After discovering EQBrower I made quite a few improvements to it, which I would share with the community if there is interest.

From my understanding this tool is now "orphaned", and may be I could take charge of it for a bit. I tried to contact Muuss at the email mentioned in the README but got no reply. It would be nice to have this open-source.

In a nutshell here are the changes I did the last couple days. I probably broke other stuff doing it , but for the time being it suits my need. The most notable changes may be the icons (easy but useful) linking to the PEQ Editor. That way EQBrowser can be used for searching/browsing, and PEQ Editor for changes.

- (Bulle) code cosmetics change (privilege when working on an orphaned project).
- (Bulle) Indentation of the generated HTML code - first shot at XHTML compliance.
- (Bulle) Make the top part of the page (header) optional through a flag in config.php.
- (Bulle) Made "faction.php" and "factions.php" interoperate. If "faction.php" is passed an invalid faction it redirects to "factions.php". If "factions.php" finds one and only one faction it redirects to "faction.php" with the found faction.
- (Bulle) Made "faction.php" more Wiki-friendly : it accepts both an 'id' and 'name' parameter. If the 'id' parameter is non-empty it is used. Otherwise if the 'name' parameter is not empty it is used to query for the faction.
- (Bulle) Same remarks for "npc.php", "npcs.php", "item.php" and "items.php"
- (Bulle) Added icons in factions, NPCs and items to link to a PEQ Editor and Lucy when possible
- (Bulle) Diverted the place where NPC images are searched for. Now it links to a Mediawiki installation (which has to be installed) used to store the images. Allows for much easier image upload as no access to the server filesystem is needed
- (Bulle) Added two "generic" search fields in the menu bar, one for searching on the name, one on the ID. It looks for items, NPCs or factions
- (Bulle) Displayed the IDs of objects in many places, which makes life much easier for the world builder

Been waiting for someone to update this for a while. Since it seems mUUS has given you the goahead? Can we see a new version soon?

[Bulle]

Just look above, the link is at the end of my last post.

[fault]

I can;t edit my post so if a mod can merge this that would be awesome.


Thanks for the update. Few questions, This doesn;t HAVE to be run on the same machine as eqemu does it? I noticed the quests look for the eqemu directory. I have a test eqemu setup On my local machine, and this set up on my hosting, pointed towards the eq database on my local since it seems to require it.


Also Mirror:EQBrowser Mirror 6.0
Will update this mirror when I can

Edit.

So far the only bug I see is Spells, can;t seem to search. says *not found* when I search for clerics Healing

[Bulle]

For spells, you have loaded the spells tables in your DB right ? I re-discovered this point in the README when making a fresh installation to try it out.

The quest functionality requires a copy of your quest directory to work. Basically it runs a script that parses the Perl files and populates tables with the result, ready for HTML rendering. Note that I have tried it on my PEQ quests directory (you can run it in "batch" mode) and it stalled on one file so it is probably not up-to-date anymore. And I do not plan to delve into this for the moment (it is quite intricate) so if you would like to fix it you are welcome