Roster:ChangeLog

Contents 1 Main Page 2 WoWRoster Change Log 3 v2.x.x 4 v2.3.0 4.1 Important Changes 4.2 General Fixes and Enhancements 4.3 Addon Framework 4.3.1 Core AddOns 5 v2.2.0 5.1 Important Changes 5.2 General Fixes and Enhancements 5.3 Addon Framework 5.3.1 Core AddOns 6 v2.1.0 6.1 Important Changes 6.2 General Fixes and Enhancements 6.3 LUA Update (update.lib.php) 6.4 SQL/DB 6.5 Locales 6.6 Template System 6.7 Addon Framework 6.7.1 Core AddOns 6.7.2 Achievements 6.7.3 Character Info 6.7.4 Guild Info 6.7.5 Keys 6.7.6 Professions 6.7.7 PvPLog 6.7.8 Members List 6.7.9 Vault 7 v2.0.2 7.1 General Fixes and Enhancements 8 v2.0.1 8.1 General Fixes and Enhancements 8.2 Locales 8.3 Addon Framework 8.3.1 CharacterInfo 9 v2.0.0 9.1 Important Notes 9.2 Fixes 9.3 Changes 9.4 Enhancements

WoWRoster Change Log

Last Release (v2.3.0) September 9, 2012

You can view the open source project, and for corrections and/or suggestions, visit - http://www.wowroster.net

Version 1.x changes are not shown here, please see the WoWRoster 1.x Change Log

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Last Edit: Zanix 13:09, 9 September 2012 (MDT)

v2.x.x

In Development
13:09, 9 September 2012 (MDT)
Latest SVN commit

This can and will change at any moment
This is to just inform about upcoming fixes/changes/enhancements

v2.3.0

Released - September 9, 2012
SVN Tagged build: 2615

Change log will be updated soon
You can view the SVN commit messages here for now SVN Source

Important Changes

• Mists of Pandaria support

General Fixes and Enhancements

Addon Framework

Core AddOns

v2.2.0

Released - July 15, 2012
SVN Tagged build: 2573

Change log will be updated soon
You can view the SVN commit messages here for now SVN Source

Important Changes

• WoWAPI, a interface to the Armory
  • Armory data now uses WoWAPI

General Fixes and Enhancements

• Fixed: Installation template error
• Synced install css style with default style

Addon Framework

Core AddOns

v2.1.0

Released - June 15, 2011
SVN Tagged build: 2337

Important Changes

• New license
  • WoWRoster is now licensed under GPL v3
  • All license pages are updated
• New default theme, old one is gone forever
  • New look for the installer, matches the default theme!
• New Interface Image Pack, png is now the default image type
• Default location of Interface Images points to wowroster.net, no more downloading it!
• Support for dual specs
• Armory code updated
• Talent ranks and data now come from the armory, update this information via RosterCP -> Armory Data
• WoWRoster now requires a modified version of CharacterProfiler and GuildProfiler which is now updated by us
  • Called WoWRoster-Profiler
  • SavedVariables file is named: wowroster.lua
  • Calvin hasn't had the time to provide updates to CP and GP so we have taken over development
  • Ours supports Dual talents, multi-level reputation, and more data gathered for recipe reagent items
• PHP 5.3 compatibility
• WoWRoster is now restricted to PHP version 5.1 and higher
• Updated download links for addons that use the WoWRoster.net download system
• Split out some icon data for tpl use in item.php
• More data is imported for recipe reagents
• item::out() and recipe::out() are now depreciated, please use the following for output and build your own containers for item and recipe icons
  • item::out() and recipe::out() have a new parameter, $small (bool) - Default false
    • Just in case you need small icons, and still use these functions
  • item::slot,
  • item::tpl_get_icon(), recipe::tpl_get_icon()
  • item::tpl_get_tooltip(), recipe::tpl_get_tooltip()
  • item::tpl_get_itemlink(), recipe::tpl_get_itemlink()
  • item::quantity, recipe::quantity
  • item::slot
  • Roster and the core addons have been updated to this new format
  • Any icon tooltips using the old class method will display for now, but might not in later versions
• New centralized messaging system
  • $roster->set_message($text, $title, $type)
  • $text - the body of the message
  • $title (optional) The title of the message
  • $type (optional) the type of the message, currently two types 'status', 'error'
• Added item.html template, an example of how to build an item container (not used in Roster)
• New Item data
  • Store item_type, item_subtype (same as AH categories for item)
  • Store item_rarity (numeric indication of color)
  • item_level, the status of the existing item_level column.
• Item data parsing has been updated
• Menu is now initalized earlier, hopefully reducing menu errors when Roster errors
• JQuery and JQuery-UI added
  • Old javascript functions still exist, some have been converted to use JQuery
• Talent data is now fetched via the Armory
  • CP now only gathers talent point allocation
  • This makes the CP files MUCH smaller
• Changed get_scope_data() to not die when data is not found
  • Instead, the scope and anchor are set to the util scope
  • Some addons will need to add some additional checks for data
• Added RosterGD Library
  • Common GD image manipulation functions
  • Guild Info graph images, Realm Status, and MOTD image use this library
• Added new parameters for makelink()
  • $anchor: (bool) allows you to disable the anchor tag in the link
  • $ext: (string) allows you to change the url extension for the link, default is 'html'
• New realmstatus design!

General Fixes and Enhancements

• Removed trim on realm/character/guild name for upload rules
  • Apparently you can have spaces at the beginning and end of the realm/character/guild name
• Updated class icons to 64px, up from 50px
• New Quest Data (see other sections for additional info)
  • All quest links use quest_id now
  • Changes for lib/quest.php functions
    • quest_get_many() updated for new tables
    • quest_get_one($quest_name)
    • quest_get_one_id($quest_id, $locale)
• Fixed errors in lib/dbal/mysql.php
• Changed behavior of db::error_die, will now just die() and not use die_quietly()
  • Roster starts with this enabled, then settings.php sets to false when framework initialization is done
  • We set db::error_die to false now, so db errors can be caught, instead of the db layer just dying
• Some fixes to the item parser
• Item and Profession search, changed Lv to localized Level name
• Added "Account Bound" item binding type
• Fixed 'maildateutc' error on CP.lua upload
• Added a message to install.php for those trying to directly access it
  • Now says "Direct access to install.php is not allowed. Please go to index.php to install."
• Added race and class icons
• Moved much of the functionality from menu.php into header.php
• Moved update instructions to the update page, removed from memberslist pages
• Updates to the armory class
• Item/recipe icons now have a "quality" glow, you will see what I mean
• New scope based classes
  • Loads common data and template variable for each type of scope
• Added new roster->data value
  • ['armoryurl'] Detects US or EU and sets this to their respective armory URL
• Character Data update is now a pop-up, click on 'Update Instructions' button to see the full page
• Removed WoWDigger from item and quest link lists as it seems it no longer exists
• Removed Allakhazam from quest links as it seems it has outdated data
• Changed the footer credits, they are now a link with a question mark icon
• New aPrint class library
  • Shows MUCH more info than the old aprint.php() function
  • Much prettier than the old aprint, all arrays/objects/long strings are collapsed
  • Call with APrint::dump($var);
  • Old aprint.php() function is now a wrapper, second argument does nothing :(
  • New functions available
  •  ::classes() Prints a list of all currently declared classes
  •  ::interfaces() Prints a list of all currently declared interfaces
  •  ::includes() Prints a list of all currently included (or required) files
  •  ::functions() Prints a list of all currently declared functions
  •  ::defines() Prints a list of all currently declared constants
  •  ::extensions() Prints a list of all currently loaded PHP extensions
  •  ::headers() Prints a list of all HTTP request headers
  •  ::path() Prints a list of the specified directories under your include_path option
  •  ::ini() Prints a list of all the values from an INI file
• Fixed bug for adding upload rules, validator was only checking one field for emptyness
• Menu Config
  • Adjusted sort and unused boxes
  • Fixed 'add menu button'
    • Now has icon when added
  • Added help for adding menu buttons
• Changed function die_quietly() to only print a border is there is information to print
• Changed when the database is closed in die_quietly() and roster_die()
• Changed detection of invalid addon url characters a bit sooner
• Changed the tooltips a bit
  • Removed opacity javascript, now using a transparent png background image
  • Changed the bordering, it's round in ie9, chrome, and firefox
• Changed realmstatus timestamp to a real unix timestamp
• Merged Realm Status display and type into one config item
• Item parser picks up Heroic now

LUA Update (update.lib.php)

• Added additional checks for missing data
  • Mail['Coin'], Mail['CoinIcon'], Spellbook['Rank']
  • Including more not listed
• Pet talents data importing
• Glyph data importing
• Added processTime var for use with enforceRules()
• Added <br /> when guild not found, just to clean up output
• Added a bit more explanation for guild/character rejection message when rejected by upload rules
• Fixed update to detect uniuploader user agent
  • Fix preg_match to be case insensitive

SQL/DB

• New tables: quest_data, pet_talents, pet_talenttree
• Renamed tables: spellbook_pet -> pet_spellbook
• Changed tables: quests
• Dropped: pets.usedtp (not available in WoW 3.0), pets.loyalty (not available in WoW 3.0)
• New Quest data
  • daily, group, reward_money, quest_id, description, objective, difficulty
  • Description and Objective are only available via an option in CP /cp questsfull on -- scan full info for quests (Description & Objective)

Locales

• Quest links updated to use quest id
  • frFR: WoWDBU FR seems to be in maintenance mode and Judgehype FR does not seem to support quest id links
  • Added WoWHead to all locales since it seems their site has data for them
• Moved some strings from core addons to main locale files
• Added locale strings for item quality

Template System

• Fixed a bug where iterating only the first element of an array resulted in the entire array being printed
• Added new <!-- TRANSLATE string --> instruction
  • Looks up the 'string' key in the current active localization table
  • Check templates/default/memberslist/memberslist.html for usage examples
• Added <!-- TRANSLATE_F --> based on <!-- TRANSLATE --> with printf() abilities.
  • First parameter is a locale key string
  • Further parameters are template variables. Can be inside loops.
• Moved locale assignments to template to <!-- TRANSLATE --> calls in the template
  • Replaced many tpl variables with <!-- TRANSLATE --> instruction in templates
  • Leftover {L_*} keys are not strictly locale keys, mainly tooltips or other php set values
  • Some core addons may not have been updated
• Added is_writeable() before template is written. Fixes issue in step 0 of install when the cache folder may not be writable
  • This has been tested very lightly. If there are any issues with caching, look here first
• New, theme.js is used for theme specific javascript, such as tooltip styling
• Refreshed look for RosterCP and Roster Diag

Addon Framework

• Install::add_menu_button() added 5th parameter - $active
  • Default true
  • Set to false to prevent button from being automatically added to the menu
  • Useful for "optional" buttons

Core AddOns

• Quest data changes
  • Quest List, Quest List Search, and Char-Info->Quests updated to not break and use some of the new data, not all though

Achievements

• New AddOn
• Displays character achievements

Character Info

• Fix to spellbook sql
• Char-Info->Quests new template data:
  • ID - int, INDEX - int, DIFFICULTY - int, DESCRIPTION - text, REWARD_MONEY_C - int, REWARD_MONEY_S - int, REWARD_MONEY_G - int, OBJECTIVE - text, DAILY - int, GROUP - int
• Changed quest icon to look more like the game icon
• Updated menu tooltips
• Added companions and mounts
• Added 3D Model Viewer from Armory
  • Might not work since Blizzard seems to have removed the functionality
• Added reputation descriptions
• New categorized inventory module
• New inventory module
• Added talent frame arrows
• You can access any tab via the URL now
  • Append &t=tab_name
  • Valid tabs names are: profile, pets, companions, reputation, skills, talents, spellbook, currency
  • Members List uses this to direct to the talents tab
• Fixed, char-info-recipes show collapse setting was reversed
• Added, tooltips on quick links for char-info-bags/bank, char-info-recipes
• Changed reputation info text to only show when hovering a ? icon
• Changed alt indication in char-info
  • An icon appears next to the character name if they belong to/or have alts
  • Hovering over the icon shows a tooltip
  • Clicking the icon allows you to click the links in the tooltip
• Talent Export now uses WoWHead

Guild Info

• Revamped addon
• Now gathers more guild data present in Cataclysm
• Needs to be enabled to gather most of the new data

Keys

• Patched for the memberslist changes
• Patched for new quest data format

Professions

• Fixed sorting

PvPLog

• Updated frFR
• Fixed SQL error
• Changed win/loss text to image in PvPLog

Members List

• Simplified name_value()
• Stripped out client sort
• Fixed pagination
• Alt grouping/ungrouping now client side
• Lots of code cleanup
• Removed template keys:
  • members_row.OPEN (use S_GROUP_ALTS eq 2)
  • members_row.alts.DISPLAY (actually the opposite. Use S_GROUP_ALTS neq 2)
  • S_TOOLBAR (used to include direction, but removed that usage. Use S_GROUP_ALTS ge 0)
• Added HREF patching
  • When using the openAlts(), closeAlts(), or unGroupAlts() javascript functions, all <a> elements with the 'internal' class will have their link target patched, giving the 'alts=' parameter (if set) the appropriate value.
• Mainless alts are not shown at the bottom in ungrouped mode
• Reformatted all memberlist pages to align the FIELD definitions
• Updated with multisort
• Removed the separate makeToolBar call
• Main/Alt matching
  • If the regex results in a member name with quotes, these are now properly escaped. thanks Athan.
• Added inactive buttons for memberslist to all yet unlinked pages
• Reformed $memberslist->prepareData() paramters
• Added filter support by adding the GET string, with a GUI
• Added ability to disable filtering for a column, hiding the box (set 'filter'=false)
• Added ability to set an explicit mysql column definition for the default filter
• Cleaned up javascript sort/filter specifications, since these are no longer used
• Enabled filtering on stat-totals
• Fixed HTML syntax
• Added filter settings (disabled on key columns)
• Made the professions subquery return less rows
• Fixed a warning when the GROUP_CONCAT professions truncates due to field size
• Switched some code around so addons can influence the template file used
  • Set the 'template' option to the name of the file to use
• Added fix from http://www.wowroster.net/topic6231.html
  • "When clicking the next button in the Member log I get a bunch of errors."
• Removed icon_size setting
• Changed talent spec icons, both specs show in tooltip, main spec shows in list
• Changed player tooltip, using localized word for 'level'
  • Removed : when player has no guild rank, removed 'in zone' when 'zone' is missing
  • Removed 'last online' if it is missing
• If pagination was broke, it should work now

Vault

• Added Guild Vault search
• Fixed missing 'requires_level' data in VaultItem class
• Money no longer shows 0 amounts (eg. 100g 0s 0c now shows as 100g)
• Made vault specific css style for each log action
• Prettied up the money log

v2.0.2

Released - December 21, 2008
SVN Tagged build: 1927

General Fixes and Enhancements

• Death Knight talent spec icons
• Support for flying icons when skill > 150
• Riding icon code changed, now includes flying icons
• Memberslist now uses members.classid for class coloring
• Pet info will only be saved for Hunters and Warlocks until CP is fixed

v2.0.1

Released - November 15, 2008
SVN Tagged build: 1910

General Fixes and Enhancements

Maintenance release for WotLK for compatibility issues

• Fixed notice error in installer
• Updated EU realmstatus URL
• Realmstatus fix for XML change for US feed
• Talent import fixes
• Fix style for file input fields in FF3
  • Now the style will have a white background with grey text and a grey border
• Added Death Knight class icon
• Added Death Knight class color
  • Updated other colors to standard Blizz colors (http://www.wowwiki.com/Class_colors)
• Added class id for Death Knight = 6
• Changed ROSTER_MAXCHARLEVEL to 80
• Changed ROSTER_MAXSKILLLEVEL to 450
• install.sh had the wrong path

Locales

• frFR fix for Warrior
• New strings 'tag', 'daily'
• Added locales for 'Runeforging' and 'Inscription'
• Added Inscription icon
• Added 'Death Knight' locale strings
• Updated class colors

Addon Framework

• Fixed incorrect $addon variables
  • 'tpl_image_url' and 'tpl_image_path'

CharacterInfo

• New talent tiers for WotLK (WoW 3.0) will now show on talents page
• Fixed talent export link for character talents

v2.0.0

Released - June 20, 2008
SVN Tagged build: 1801

Important Notes

• Roster has changed drastically, there is so much new and different from the last version (1.7.3)

  We did our best to keep a log of every change, but there is so much that has been changed, that we could not list everything

• The license has been modified, you must agree to the license before using WoWRoster!
  • The changes are nothing big, mostly a reformat of the layout
  • Also added a web viewable license  ?p=license (SEO: license.html)
• ROSTER 2.0 BRINGS MASSIVE CHANGES
  • There is no upgrade path to 2.0, you must make a clean install
• THE INTERFACE IMAGE PACK MUST BE DELETED AND RE-DOWNLOADED

  Roster now converts all the image names to lowercase and removes spaces

  'Interface/Icons/' is no longer being stored with the icon name in the database

• Many Roster pages have been converted to addons (zeryl,zanix,pleegwat)
  • It is now possible to overwrite these addons with different/improved versions written by addon devs
• Big changes to addon framework, please read the updated AddOn SDK
  • Addon folder names can only contain a-z 0-9 _
  • Access to addons are now like this > index.php?p=SCOPE-ADDONNAME-FILE (SEO: SCOPE/ADDONNAME/FILE.html)
    • SCOPE is the addons scope (realm,guild,guildless,char,util)
    • ADDONNAME is the addons name
    • FILE is a file in the addons scope folder, FILE is optional
  • Make use of the functions makelink() and linkform()
  • AddOn triggers have been completely redesigned (pleegwat,zanix)
    • Please read the AddOn SDK for details
• Changed detection of ROSTER_INSTALLED to IN_ROSTER, so the installer can include some of the roster files
  • Please use IN_ROSTER from now on, ROSTER_INSTALLED is for installation purposes only
  • define('IN_ROSTER',true); needs to be added to files that are accessed directly before including settings.php
• Roster now supports 3 auth levels (guild, officer, admin)
  • The auth fields were moved to the `roster_account` table
• Many Database changes, see the rest of the change log
  • UTF-8 conversion
    • Roster's database tables are now set to the utf-8 collation
  • Many tables changed quite a bit from 1.7.3, here are a few of those changes
  • guild table
    • Removed `guild_dateupdatedutc` `update_time` is exactly the same

    `faction` changed from char(8) to char(32)

    Added `factionEn`

  • players table

    Added `raceEn`, `classEn`, `sexid`, `raceid`, `classid`

    Added 109 fields to the players table with all the new character data

    Deleted or changed the meaning of 6 old fields. These mappings apply:

    melee_rating -> melee_mhand_skill, melee_ohand_skill

    melee_range -> melee_mhand_mindam, melee_mhand_maxdam, melee_ohand_mindam, melee_ohand_maxdam

    melee_power -> melee_power_c

    ranged_rating -> ranged_skill

    ranged_range -> ranged_mindam, ranged_maxdam

    ranged_power-> ranged_power_c

  • members table

    Removed `update_time`

  • items table

    Added `locale`

  • pet table

    Completely changed

  • pet spellbook, addon table, addon trigger, addon config, menu, menu_button, upload, gems

    All new for 2.0

Fixes

• Many locale changes/fixes
• Edited the lua parser to read the lines directly from the file rather than caching it into memory (pleegwat)
  • This is about 5% faster, and saves about 2400k of memory with a 675k CP.lua
• Duplicate keys error with quests on CharacterProfiler uploads (zeryl)
• function escape_array($array) now uses addslashes(), not $wowdb->escape() (zanix)
• set_magic_quotes_runtime is now set off in settings.php (zanix)
• tradeskills fix > http://www.wowroster.net/Forums/viewtopic/p=15858.html#15858 (zanix)
• Missing $wowdb->escape() when testing the number of alts (pleegwat)
• Last Updated fix -> http://www.wowroster.net/ProjectsPro/report/report_id=47.html (zanix)
• Character removal, set inactive process improved (pleegwat,zanix)
• message_die() has been changed to roster_die() (zanix)
  • This is because phpbb uses message_die()
• Memberlog is now updated with the guild updated time (zanix)
• So very many notice errors removed (zeryl)
• Fixed a possible problem with array based tooltips (zanix)
• Fixed weird multi lined text in UU update log, text version (zanix)
• Unspent talent icons are now transparent in Opera (zanix)
• Added level check in rogue portion of keys.php (zeryl)
• Item (and bag) class now gets the clientLocale itself instead of having to pass it (zanix)
• c.php now uses Roster's link constant (zanix)
• Config does not query the db when data is processed for saving (zanix)
  • Instead, it looks in the config array and dynamically updates it
  • This means the menu reflects the changes after the first load, you do not need to reload to see the change
• Mail alternate row coloring fixed (zanix)
• Settings aren't stored in DB with an extra set of slashes (pleegwat)
• overlib.js reverted to default, we pass the settings to it in roster_header.tpl now (zanix)
• DB link was getting terminated twice on most pages. Removing the one in footer (pleegwat)
• Lua parser should now detect invalid SV files (pleewat)
• Install should now fail when the db information is wrong (zanix)
• setTooltip() now checks if the passed key is already set, if it is, it does not set a new tooltip (zanix)
• Fixed extra wide die_quietly() messages (zanix)
• Removed configurable hide/show for hslist and pvplist, they are now hidden by default (zainx)
• Fixed transparent 'banding' in messageboxes (zanix)
• Realms with an apostrophe in them will no longer cause upload errors (zanix,pleegwat)
• luaparser fixed for magic_quotes_runtime (pleegwat)
• Method do_buffs(). Remove stale buff data even if no new buff data is available (ds)
• Method make_mail(). Would produce Undefined Index Errors if the mail did not have an Item attached (ds)
• Tooltip parser converted tab characters wrong (zanix)
• Fixed a caption coloring error in tooltips creation when there is a tab character in the first line (zanix)
• Locale inclusion for button in menu is local to only the menu, this is to prevent addons overwriting other addons' locales (zanix)
• Added stripslashes to $update.lib->tooltip (zanix)
  • Seems tooltips we being entered double escaped
• added some data checking in do_pets() inupdate.lib.php. Would produce Undefined Indexes for pets that have not been scanned fully. (ds)
• Character equipped item bonuses code has been re-vamped, it should be much easier to handle changes in blizz's data (ds)
• Equipment bonuses are finally fixed, hopefully (ds)
• minCPver and minGPver now use the actual CP and GP version numbers and not the dbversion number (zanix)
• Guild motd will not show if it is empty (zanix)
• Adjusted arc buttons to move standard buttons an additional 1000px off screen (zanix)

Changes

• Major re-vamp of the character pages
  • Way too much to list here
• Roster Config is now the Roster Control Panel (RosterCP)
  • Addon config can now use a library to generate a config page accessible from RosterCP
• The Roster member list is now an addon called memberslist (pleegwat)
  • AltMonitor functionality is now part of this addon
  • SortMembers is now part of this addon
  • Member log is part of memberslist
• Converted all of Roster to run everything through index.php (zanix)
  • Supports extra lower levels on the p= parameter. They're in $roster_pages (array), or in ROSTER_PAGE_NAME (string) (pleegwat)
  • There is now a default page selection in Roster Config -> Main Settings
  • Addons can be set as the default page (pleegwat)
  • cmslink.lib.php contains defines and functions that can easily be changed for integration to other CMS's
• All core WoWRoster pages have been moved out of the root directory (zanix)
• $HTTP_GET_VARS, $HTTP_POST_VARS, $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS are now destroyed (zanix)
• Moved the check for guild info into settings.php and out of every page (zanix)
• Removed char.php compatibility mode setting (zanix)
• Messages in update.php to use messagebox() functions (zanix)
• WoWRoster is now XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant (zeryl,zanix,pleegwat,anaxent)
• char.php is now called like so ?p=char-info&a=c:## or or ?p=char-info&a=c:Name or ?p=char-info&a=c:Name@RC-Server (zanix)
  • SEO links /char/info/a=c:##.html or /char/info/a=c:Name.html or /char/info/a=c:Name@RC-Server.html
  • RC is the region code US, EU, etc...
  • All of Roster has been converted to link to members with the ID number
• Merged both guildbanks into one addon (zanix)
  • The guildbank setting changes the default view
• Roster menu is now included on char pages and error pages (zanix)
• Changed Itemlinks, when you click on an item, a pop-up comes up with a list of available item link locations (zanix)
  • Updated all of roster to use new item linking
• Moved the addon scanner makeAddonList() and DateDataUpdated() to commomfunctions.lib.php (zanix)
• Moved around the keys in locale files (zanix)
• "This page was generated.." message to just "time | queries" (zanix)
• Quests sorting change -> http://www.wowroster.net/Forums/viewtopic/t=3016.html (zanix)
• Locales have been changed (zanix,pleegwat)
  • All locale files are now included via a function add_locale_file()

    This prevents one locale form overwriting the other

  • All strings in the locale files are now just $lang['key'] = 'String';

    The new locale include function handles parsing the correct locale to the correct array

  • Locale works like so: $roster->locale->wordings['enUS']['some_key']
• New locale access $roster->locale->act
  • $roster->locale->act['some_key']
  • This holds the locale array for the current locale
  • All of Roster has been converted to use this variable (where applicable)
• Removed printing of every sql string in html comments, we have a sql message box for that (zanix)
• Changed tab detection and conversion in colorTooltip() and cleanTooltip() to use div and span, not tables (zanix)
• Removed SigGen sig and avatar display on character page (zanix,pleegwat)

  SigGen is an addon and should not be on this page

• Moved character bonuses out to addons/info/inc/charbonus.lib.php (zanix)
• Renamed lib/commonfunctions.lib.php to lib/functions.lib.php (zanix)
• Changed img.php to work like c.php (zeryl)
  • Use img.php?CHARNAME now
• Removed config settings for all js and css (zanix)
  • If users need to change these, they should edit the header file
• Roster Config variable changes
  • Removed the config 'roster_dir' (zanix)
    • It has been replaced with ROSTER_PATH
  • Removed 'server_name' and 'server_type'
  • Roster config variable 'roster_lang' is now 'locale' (zanix)
  • Roster config variables 'guild_name' and 'guild_desc' are now 'default_name' and 'default_desc'
• Moved SVN remote url to constants.php, for easy updating (zanix)
• Item quantity text css has been changed (zanix)
  • Old

    <div class="item"><img class="icon" /><span class="quant_shadow">6</span><span class="quant">6</span></div>

  • New

    <div class="item"><img class="icon" /><b>6</b><span>6</span></div>

• hslist and pvplist have the hide/show default variable in their files, so they could be included elsewhere easily if needed (zanix)
• Localization files now use sprintf() rather than variable inclusion (zeryl)
• Comment code at the top of every file to phpdoc standards (zanix)
• Renamed css/styles.css to css/style.css, to stay in line with addon css styles now being named style.css (zanix)
• Removed $script_filename for addons, use the constant ROSTER_PAGE (zanix)
• Realmstatus Changes
  • Added quite a few new config options (zanix)
  • Now saves all realms that are accessed
  • Can now be accessed "realmstatus.php?r=RC-REALMNAME"
    • If "r=" isn't set, it tries to get the default guildname from config
  • You can now use the url parameter 'd' to set the output mode
    • d=1 for image, d=0 for text
• Many Roster global variables are now part of the $roster class
  • $act_words becomes $roster->locale->act
  • $wordings becomes $roster->locale->wordings
  • $roster_conf becomes $roster->config
  • $wowdb->fetch_* becomes $roster->db->fetch()
  • any other $wowdb becomes $roster->db->
  • $header_title becomes $roster->output['title']
  • $html_head becomes $roster->output['html_head']
  • $more_css becomes $roster->output['html_head']
  • $roster_show_(header, footer, menu) becomes $roster->output['show_(header, footer, menu)']
  • $body becomes $roster->output['body_onload'] and $roster->output['body_attr']
• Changed function DateDataUpdated() to function readbleDate() (zanix)
  • Takes datetime field data from the db and makes a friendly time
• Mass removal of DB table defines and renamed them to $roster->db->table('name') (zanix)
• wowdb.php is no longer used
  • sql functions have been moved to lib/dbal/mysql.php
    • Use $roster->db-> for SQL functions
    • Lua updating is now handled by update.lib.php
• die_quietly() file name passed should now be __FILE__, not basename(__FILE__) (zanix)
  • die_quietly() replaces the full path with a relative one
• lib/hslist.php is now a function generateHsList() (zanix)
• addons/pvplog/inc/pvplist.php is now a function generatePvpList() (zanix)
• Changed the look of the back trace a bit (zanix)
  • Arguments are now a bullet list
• Changed wiki links for when 2.0 is released (zanix)
  • From www.wowroster.net/wiki or www.wowroster.net/wiki/index.php/SOMEPAGE
  • To www.wowroster.net/wiki.html or www.wowroster.net/wiki/SOMEPAGE
• Using version_compare() now on CPversion and GPversion version checking and now checks the actual CP/GPversion and not the DBversion (zanix)
• Added DBversion to `roster_players` and `roster_guild` tables (zanix)
  • DBversion is the CP and GP data DBversion
  • CPversion and GPversion are now CP/GPversion
• Border images are now css styles (adric)
  • This improves the loading time of most of the roster pages
• MOTD text mode changed to look more like image version (adric)
• Added add_ifvalue() to allow for checking of the value before insert in update.lib.php (zeryl)
• function border() now accepts an optional 4th parameter, width (zanix)
• Removed old tab selection in favor of the one used in RosterCP (zanix)
  • It allows the use of multiple tab groups on one page, and persistence on page re-loads
• Installer changes (zanix)
  • You no longer need to go to install.php, just go to index.php
• Upgraded tabcontent.js to v2.0 (zanix)
  • Tabs are initialized differently

    OLD: initializetabcontent('id');

    NEW: var id=new tabcontent('id');

    id.init();

  • Tab Content Documentation: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/tabcontent_suppliment.htm

Enhancements

• A hearty welcome to our new developers, DS and Adric!
• Roster is now Multi Guild and/or public compatible (pleegwat,zanix)
  • Set guild and character upload rules in RosterCP
• New page linking and SEO compatible links
  • SEO is disabled by default since IIS servers cannot use this feature
  •  ?p=SCOPE-ADDON | /SCOPE/ADDON.html
  • You can also link to certain files in the addon folder
    •  ?p=SCOPE-ADDON-FILE | /SCOPE/ADDON/FILE.html
• Added a template engine that addons can use (zanix)
  • Templates are coded very similar to phpbb, eqdkp, and dragonfly templates
  • (In fact, they all use basically the same template engine)
• Made a new linking functions to help in CMS porting (zanix)
  • lib/cmslink.lib.php
  • function makelink( string $url="" , bool $full=false )
    • ALL roster links run through this function to generate links
    • This can easily be edited for integration into other CMS's
    • Login functions expect a NON-makelink()'ed link
      • login.php will convert the link for you
  • function linkform(array $array)
    • This inserts the correct GET variables for html forms
    • Pass an array of additional GET vars if you need them array('name'=>'value')
• Item parsing (ds)
  • The items class has been enhanced to parse the tooltip to its separate elements
  • There is alot more data now that is available for an item
  • Check the wiki for more info
• Gems support (ds)
• Massively improved search system (anaxent)
  • Features include
    • Able to search any installed, active addon that have a search.inc file within there inc directory
    • Ability to search only with in a particular addon
    • Advanced Search options per addon
    • Addons can create their own search results display using the $item['html'] = variable in the search class
• Roster now uses an error handler (zanix)
  • All php errors are saved and stored and displayed in the Roster footer if $roster->config['debug_mode'] is enabled
  • The footer MUST be enabled to display the php errors
  • You can get the current list of php errors at anytime with array() = $roster->error->report
  • E_USER_ERROR level will halt Roster with an error message
• Added addon_active($addon_basename) (zanix)
  • Returns bool, true if the addon is active, false if it is not active or not even available
  • Use this if your addon requires another addon to function
• Remote version checking for Roster and addons in Roster CP (zanix)
• Brand new Roster Menu (adric,pleegwat)
  • Buttons can be added, removed, hidden, moved, etc...
  • Locale selector (zanix)
    • You can also set the locale using url "locale=coDE"
    • The local set is session based, and traverses to every page without the need for the url setting
  • Scope based id selector (zanix)
    • Change the current id for the scope
    • realm/guildless - List shows all realms
    • guild - List shows all guilds
    • char - List of uploaded characters in the guild (or realm if guildless)
    • util - The list is not available
  • Menu title shows the 'default_name' and 'default_dec' when not in the guild scope
  • Possible to set an icon for buttons
• Character page has been completely overhauled (pleegwat,zanix)
  • Way too many changes to list here
• Added Pet Spellbooks (zanix)
• Made tooltips transparent (85% opacity) (zanix)
• Added SQL output for installer and upgrader (zanix)
• Added ability to collapse or show recipe tables by default for characters (zanix)
• Added last_online_value function for memberlist (zanix)
  • It shows last online in terms of hours/days/weeks/years ago
• Added $wowdb->add_timestamp() function to wowdb to handle timestamp conversion to mysql datetime (zanix)
• Guild and character update will reject uploads if the timestamp is lower that what is in the DB (zanix)
• Converted luaparser to a class (zanix,pleegwat)
  • Added lua writer method
• Added minixml library (zanix)
• Added constant ROSTER_LOCALE_DIR, which is the location of the localization folder (zanix)
• Added constant 'ROSTER_MAXQUESTS' (zanix)
• Basic ajax framework that is available to addons as well (pleegwat)
  • Read the Roster AddOn SDK for more info
• c.php can now accept a member id (zanix)
• New define CAN_INI_SET, true if we can configure php ini settings via ini_set() (zanix)
• Added urlgrabber() function for global usage that gets a url file contents as a string (zeryl)
  • This uses curl then file_get_contents() if curl fails
• New scope system for Roster (pleegwat)
  • These load specific data for each scope
  • realm/guildless - url: ?p=realm-ADDON (SEO: realm/ADDON.html) | ?p=guildless-ADDON (SEO: guildless/ADDON.html)
    • Set the realm with the a=r: parameter ?p=realm-ADDON&a=r:RC-RNAME (SEO: realm/ADDON/a=r:RC-RNAME.html)
  • guild - url: ?p=guild-ADDON (SEO: guild/ADDON.html)
    • Set the guild with the a=g: parameter ?p=guild-ADDON&a=g:GID (SEO: guild/ADDON/a=g:GID.html) | ?p=guild-ADDON&a=g:GNAME@RC-RNAME (SEO: guild/ADDON/a=g:GNAME@RC-RNAME.html)
    • RC is the region code
  • char - url: ?p=char-ADDON (SEO: char/ADDON.html)
    • Set the member with the a=c: parameter ?p=char-ADDON&a=c:MID (SEO: char/ADDON/a=c:MID.html) | ?p=char-ADDON&a=c:NAME@RC-RNAME (SEO: char/ADDON/a=c:NAME@RC-RNAME.html)
    • RC is the region code
• Tradeskill icons are now clickable in memberslist (zanix)
• New header logo (adric)
• Eye of the Storm summary added to pvplog (zanix)
• Added lua upload access control (zanix)
  • GP, CP, and other LUA data all have separate level restrictions
• Added a news addon (pleegwat)
• Added guild vault addon (zanix)
• Added a shell-based install script. Tested on linux. Will probably work on anything that has bash. (pleegwat)