Petitions Improved

[Lalolyen]

Ok I'm going to post the alpha this afternoon.

Right now its doing the basics. I will add in the gm replies prob sometime this comming week (mon or tues). Its pretty cool so far though... It is secured by md5 password authentication from any table really, but mine is setup for peq_admin; you can even set it up for your accounts table for eqemu if you are running your own login or just want to set it up so that the accounts are used from there.

Its really flexable, and if you guys have some php knowledge, you'll prob laugh at how simple it really is =)

I'm a believer of making something efficient, to do that keep the code short and sweet, therefore there is a total of... errr 6 files, main index.php, header.php, navigation.php, functions.php, include.php, and footer.php.

[Lalolyen]

Here is the DEMO SITE =) Enjoy! In a few mins the demo username and pass will be "demo".

[Lalolyen]

Right now I'm currently working on the checkin-checkout system via the web. For the most part it is complete...

Here are some of the features it adds:

Status:
NULL/NEW - Any GM may check it out and view it.
CHECKED OUT - Any gm may view it but there is a big message that says its not the GM's petition (will make it unreadable in the future except to the GM that has it checked out.)
ESCALATED - Any GM can check it out (A way to decheck a petition but to let others know a GM has been working on it and could not resolve it. Resolved petitions are deleted.)


TODO's:
1. Get access levels implemented.
2. Get user access implemented.
3. Get user posting/GM posting implemented.
and WAY DOWN THE LIST
4. Allow the system to be integrated into phpBB and MediaWiki systems. (though this seems to be a pain in the ass being that MediaWIki seems to encrypt both the username and password TOGETHER, and phpbb... Well that would be easier.)

DOWNLOAD COMING WITHIN HOURS!

[Lalolyen]

Here we go... the moment we have all been waiting for =)

http://emu.norrath.info/petitions.zip

[gernblan]

VERY NICE!!!

Now if this can be weaved into the eqemu built-in server management tool, it would be double valuable

GREAT WORK!

[Lalolyen]

Ty gernblan.

I'm very close to getting the user replies and gm replies complete =) USER SIGNUPS ARE COMPLETE... However I do need to clean up the code a bit before I release that lol...

I don't currently have a demo of that yet, as it requires more than just a petition, zone, and peq table... It wants the account tables as well... so for the moment, just trust me that it works he he.

[Lalolyen]

I one day I'll go from alpha to beta =)

Ok... In a few hours, I'll be posting the beta up.

So far I have working with the system:

1. Admins can view ALL petitions.
2. Users can view their OWN petition (with no s).
3. Thats RIGHT USERS! Users can register! Upon registration their account is linked to their petitions!
4. Admins can reply to their own petitions, if the petition is not checked out, by the admin he/she cannot reply!
5. Old petition replys are cleaned up when a new petition of the same id is created. If you want to archive your petitions, let me know for a simple code fix.


ToDo's:
1. In version 1.1 RELEASE (not 1.0 RELEASE) make it so that petitions and replies are all archived.
2. Before release, set a default theme.
3. Tighten security! (Keep in mind that the sessions are using cookie/session authentication only, if you have two installs, there are no checks to see that the admins username is in the database every time they hit the site. This will be changed to constantly poll the auth table for admin credentials. I have already implemented this in development of the user interface.
4. Display race/classes.
5. Create emailed responses, even maybe pipe emails to ACERTAIN@ADDRESS.COM to the program, so users can reply via email and without having to login to the website.

I am sorry there are no demo's at this time. The best demo is the one I posted above or you can create an account on our server and /petition [TEST] (and all the text you want) and we will leave it alone so you can see the user interface.

Right now I'm just cleaning up this code, and the looks a bit and I'll be packaging it up and uploading it.

*will be adding some graphics to it this time around so its not like finger-nails on a chalkboard to the eyes he he*