Its up for download, release notes are below. As a side note since I don't visit the boards frequently. The site who's name I do not mention has been sanitized of hacks.
Code:
New Features
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Server Operators:
editor_values is no more
The editor_values table has been phased out and now uses a rather
large array. With the additional work on LDON, taxation on the
database is increasing. I felt like this might help reduce some
of the strain on the database.
Auto installer is no more
Many people reporting trouble with the auto installer. Most of
the problems stemmed from file permissions, I felt the easiest
solution was to just remove the system since manual setup of the
configuration file is fairly straight-forward.
SQL injection security
The security against SQL injection has been rethought to surpass
the level of security in previous versions. The new system will
only allow alphabetic and spaces through for names, searches,
etc.
Note: The software only requires the associated database account
to have privileges to use “SELECT” statements. Ensuring this
setting will greatly increase the security of your database.
Multilingual Support
Any text that appears in the program with the exception of text
pulled from your own database appears in one array found in a
single file, “includes/language.php”. This allows server ops to
easily translate the software to work for the servers where
languages other than English are preffered. Simply open the file
and go through it row by row doing any necessary translations.
The file is broken down by files, buttons, and messages, and any
changes to it will cascade through the entire program.
Developers:
Templates
Every page has been converted to run on HTML templates. All html
and CSS can be found in the “/templates/” directory. With
templates, several arrays of variables are set in the PHP, and
then are applied to the HTML template page. This pulls all html
that would otherwise be embedded in the PHP out and into a clean
easy to read/update file.
In a template variables are in the format of {MYVARIABLE}, and
are plugged straight into the HTML. If you wanted to put
" 's profile" after the characters name in all the windows you
would just open each template, find something like
"<div>{NAME}</div>" and change it to
"<div>{NAME}'s profile</div>" without ever having to sort through
any PHP.
I'm hoping this will lead to some people developing interfaces
and sharing them on the forums. Developing an entirely new
interface for the utility can take a matter of hours instead of
the days it previously took.
Users:
Internet Explorer
Many minor display errors have been corrected for IE. I apologize
about the appearance of any checkboxes to the IE users. I felt
the time that would have been spent smoothing the appearance of
those images in IE would have been better spent elsewhere.
Navigation
I reexamined many of the "DONE" buttons in the software and have
replaced a great deal of them with back buttons to stop some
annoying redirects back to the front page of the software.
Bazaar
This will allow you to search the bazaar from the magelo tool.
Click on the Bazaar link in the top right of any window. The
bazaar search window should function very similar to the in game
version.
Search
I removed the search page and instead embedded a search bar at
the top of every page. Searches no longer require you to use any
wildcards like %, ?, or *. Now a simple space will suffice as a
wildcard. "Mau gan" will return a character named "Maudigan".
In addition a blank search will return all of the characters in
the database. I did remove the ability to search by class and
level, but it has been replaced with a similar feature on the
search results page.
Search Results
The search results window has been expanded and now horizontally,
and with a default install will display 25 characters per page
max. It will display name, guild, level, and class. Each of these
fields are sortable by clicking the column titles. Results will
display in ascending or descending order by clicking the heading
multiple times. I also have a better function in use for
pagination now.
Inventory
Minor layout changes have been made.
Item and augment names are now appear as gold-brown links to
view where the item drops, where to buy, etc.
The character name is currently only showing their first name.
This was removed to prevent character profiles for people with
extremely long first name, last name, title, and guild
combinations from word-wrapping several lines and spoiling the
layout of their profile.
Note: The server operator can modify this by editing
“/templates/character_body.tpl”. Find {FIRST_NAME}, and
add {LAST_NAME} after it. Other options to add are {TITLE}
and {GUILD_NAME}.
Alternate Abilities
Minor display fixes have been made, no changes to function.
Flags
Minor display fixes have been made, no changes to function.
Skills
Minor display fixes have been made, no changes to function.
Corpses
I expanded the window a bit. Clicking the old zone link will no
longer bring you to the map, but will instead bring up general
information on the zone like mobs, merchants, spawn, fishing,
ground spawns, foraging, etc.
A new column has been added with “[map]” links . Clicking these
links will attempt to generate a map of the zone you died in,
with a marking showing your corpses location.
Factions
Minor display fixes have been made, no changes to function.
CharBrowser2.0 (Magelo Clone) released
Linear Mode
