Eq Browser : Allakhazam Clone

[Bulle]

That smells of a full rewrite then... Not that I am too afraid of it. I am toying with a quest "helper" at the moment so I probably will not start that before a few weeks, but this tool in a web-based form definitely fits in how I plan to edit/browse the database.

The main question at the moment is do I stick to PHP (which I just discovered really = newbie), or do I just switch to Java/Tomcat as I am very familiar with that (like in, I use that everyday...), and the fact that Java is a full-fledged programming language.

I would surely like having a look and a try at what you wrote, ideas and possibly code are always nice to get.

[Bulle]

Funny how life is. Right after posting my previous answer I received a response from Muss, that I copy here for those French-reading people out there

Salut Bulle

Tu peux disposer d'EQBrowser comme bon te semble, si ca te fait plaisir
d'ajouter le fichier texte qui manque pour un faire un GPL, ne t'en prive
pas, comme tu le dis, je suis plus dans le circuit, mais ca me fait quand
meme plaisir que quelqu'un veuille utiliser ce que j'ai fait auparavant :)
Si tu mets ca sur un serveur web quelque part, fait moi signe, j'irai y
jeter un oeil !
Muuss

OK I will translate for the rest (most?) of you :

Hi Bulle

You can make use of EQBrowser however you feel like, if you would like to
add the missing file to make it GPL go ahead, as you mentioned I am not in
the loop anymore, but I am happy that someone would like to reuse what I
have done before.
If you put that on a web-server somewhere let me know, I will go have a
look !
Muuss

In short Muuss is fine with making what he has written GPL and opening it for other developers to change, and I thank him for his kindness. It can sure help putting together a solid web-based DB browsing tool.

I will try to make my latest changes available soon, for those who would like to try out some new capabilities. Hopefully this week-end. The "communication" between PEQ Editor and EQBrowser is something I would like to receive feedback on.

I am still interested in the work you did slowglass (was it the Al'Kabor Almanac ?). Combining all this material, there must be a way to do something nice.

[slowglass]

Yes it was.

I'll try to have a version available on a web site by the end of Friday together with an example web site

[slowglass]

I have not managed to set up a demo database yet but the code is available at http://www.slowglass.com/downloads/alkabor.tar.gz

[Bulle]

No worries about the demo setup, I could have it up and running in like 20 minutes on my server (proof it is easy to setup). I had just one problem, which may lead to errors down the line : the tar.gz you provide contains a truncated TAR archive (I get an error when opening it with both 7-Zip and Linux tar command). Hopefully only some icons are missing. If you can upload a "better" TAR I'll gladly re-install it.

The way you show the query results is quite interesting. When I start working again on the browser I will have a look at that. You handle paging the results nicely. Although sometimes what I will like is just a brutal query returning 10.000 items and look into them with Firefox search (when running locally performance is hardly an issue). I guess both modes are useful to have. I also liked how everything regarding one item or NPC could fit into one page in the original EQBrowser (I have a 24 inch screen so I put it to good use). I hate Tabs with a passion ever since Windows introduced tham, and that was a long while ago !

I had an error when viewing a character, I don't know if it is "normal" at the moment.

Definitely a good tool with good ideas, I guess the truth for me is in between EQBrowser and the Almanach. Thank you for sharing it, it will certainly help.

[slowglass]

I have updated the zip file.
I have also placed a demo site on the same box at http://www.slowglass.com/alkabor

I have not had time to look into the problem with the inventory page so I have enabled my Magelo clone on the demo site

[Muuss]

Hi peeps !