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Domain Deals

admin — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:07:36 +0000

If you want a website you need a domain name… Unless you want people to enter something like 255.255.255.255 to visit your site.

I’ll keep this short and sweet.
Get free Positive SSL and free Whois Guard with every domain name you register!
With the added bonus of the cheapest rates about, you can’t complain!

I have used many different domain companies over the years I’ve been into programming and to be honest they are all pretty much the same apart from price. Some provide bad support, but as a whole there all equal.

So getting free stuff included like a free Positive SSL certificate and free Whois Guard with every domain name you register is a nice bonus!

.info – $2.99/yr &nbsp (Limited Time Only!)
.com – $9.98/yr
.net – $9.98/yr
.org – $8.88/yr
.mobi – $7.99/yr
.biz – $9.69/yr

Name Cheap

WebWoW In-game mail using SOAP

admin — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:42:33 +0000

This little modification will replace WebWoWs’ RA mail system (Remote Access which uses telnet) with a fully SOAP compatible version.
This will replace both the admins “send mail” and users “vote shop” features.

I have recently switched back to version 3.6.3 of the WebWoW CMS (using the web creator v1) as the latest version just doesn’t seem ready yet.

I had problems sending in-game mail with the older version of WebWoW as I had disabled Remote Access in Mangos as the port being opened didn’t seem necessary.

I didn’t like the way telnet was forced instead of a web interface, so I replaced the telnet mail system.

The only error I saw was “Remote Login Problem:”, apparently caused by incorrect settings. I knew the problem was remote access so I patched the system to use SOAP.

I have edited the mail system in WebWoW so it can be used to send anything including money, items, support tickets, postcards, and more. So getting it working was top of my list of things to do!

Below is how to get it working:

1 – Enable SOAP in your mangosd.conf file.

2 – Open:
includes/core/mangos_sendmail.php

3 – Replace:
The sendmail function, below:

function sendmail($playername,$playerguid, $subject, $text, $item, $shopid=0, $money=0, $realmid='1') //returns, IMPORTANT: do not remove if success
{
global $server,$ra_user,$ra_pass,$db,$a_user,$se_c,$realm;
$playername = clean_string($playername);
$subject = preg_replace( "/[^A-Za-z0-9]/", "", clean_string($subject)); //no whitespaces
$item = preg_replace( "/[^0-9]/", "", $item); //item id
$realmid = preg_replace( "/[^0-9]/", "", $realmid); //item id
if ($item<>'') $item = " ".$item;
$text = clean_string($text);
$money= preg_replace( "/[^0-9]/", "", $money);

$telnet = fsockopen($server, $realm[$realmid]['port_ra'], $error, $error_str, 3);
if($telnet)
{
fgets($telnet,1024); // Motd
fputs($telnet, $ra_user."\n");

sleep(3);

//fgets($telnet,1024); // PASS
fputs($telnet, $ra_pass."\n");

sleep(3);

$remote_login = fgets($telnet,1024);
if(strstr($remote_login, "Logged in."))
{
if ($item<>'' && $item<>'0')//send item
{
//sendmail to RA console
fputs($telnet, ".send items ".$playername." \"".$subject."\" \"".$text."\"".$item."\n");
$easf=time();
$mailtext="Mail with item sent! No money was sent.";
}
elseif ($money>'0' && $money<>'')//send money
{
fputs($telnet, ".send money ".$playername." \"".$subject."\" \"".$text."\" ".$money."\n");
$moneytext="Mail with money sent! No item was sent.";
}
else //send letter
{
fputs($telnet, ".send mail ".$playername." \"".$subject."\" \"".$text."\"\n");
$moneytext="Normal Mail sent!";
}
//check database if actuall item is there
//WebsiteVoteShopREFXXXXXXX ->this is unique
$check=$db->query("SELECT * FROM mail WHERE receiver = '".$playerguid."' AND subject ='".$subject."' LIMIT 1")or die(mysql_error());
if(mysql_num_rows($check)=='0')
$status="Recheck script (just to make sure mail is actually sent):

.$shopid."&reciver=".$playerguid."&subject=".$subject."&realmid=".$realmid."&shash=".sha1($a_user['id'].$playerguid.$subject.$se_c.$shopid)."'>].$playerguid.$subject.$se_c.$shopid)."'>Check here if your mail is here.";

return "\"colorgood\">".$mailtext.$moneytext."

".$status;
}
else
return "\"colorbad\">Remote Login Problem: ".$remote_login."
Used login: ".$ra_user;

fclose($telnet);
}
else
return "\"colorbad\">MaNGOS server is offline, you must do this when server is online.";
}

4 – With
The following function:

function sendmail($playername,$playerguid, $subject, $text, $item, $shopid=0, $money=0, $realmid='1') //returns, IMPORTANT: do not remove if success
{
global $server,$ra_user,$ra_pass,$db,$a_user,$se_c,$realm;
$playername = clean_string($playername);
$subject = preg_replace( "/[^A-Za-z0-9]/", "", clean_string($subject)); //no whitespaces
$item = preg_replace( "/[^0-9]/", "", $item); //item id
$realmid = preg_replace( "/[^0-9]/", "", $realmid); //item id
if ($item<>'') $item = " ".$item;
$text = clean_string($text);
$money = preg_replace( "/[^0-9]/", "", $money);

$username = 'GMNAME';
$password = 'GMPASS';
$host = "localhost";
$soapport = 7878;

if ($item<>'' && $item<>'0') //send item
{
$command = 'send items '.$playername.' "'.$subject.'" "'.$text.'" '.$item.'';
$moneytext = "Your reward has been sent. Please check your mailbox in game!";

$client = new SoapClient(NULL,
array(
"location" => "http://$host:$soapport/",
"uri" => "urn:MaNGOS",
"style" => SOAP_RPC,
'login' => $username,
'password' => $password
));

try {
$result = $client->executeCommand(new SoapParam($command, "command"));
return "\"colorgood\">".$mailtext.$moneytext."

".$status;
}
catch (Exception $e)
{
echo "Command failed! Reason:
\n";
echo $e->getMessage();
}

}

elseif ($money>'0' && $money<>'')//send money
{
$command = 'send money '.$playername.' "'.$subject.'" "'.$text.'" '.$money.'';
$client = new SoapClient(NULL,
array(
"location" => "http://$host:$soapport/",
"uri" => "urn:MaNGOS",
"style" => SOAP_RPC,
'login' => $username,
'password' => $password
));

try {
$result = $client->executeCommand(new SoapParam($command, "command"));
$moneytext = "Your money has been sent. Please check your mailbox in game!";
}
catch (Exception $e) {
$moneytext = "Failed to send any money.
Please contact support!";
}
}

else //send mail
{
$command = 'send mail '.$playername.' "'.$subject.'" "'.$text.'"';
$client = new SoapClient(NULL,
array(
"location" => "http://$host:$soapport/",
"uri" => "urn:MaNGOS",
"style" => SOAP_RPC,
'login' => $username,
'password' => $password
));

try {
$result = $client->executeCommand(new SoapParam($command, "command"));
$moneytext = "Your mail was sent. Please check your mailbox in game!";
}
catch (Exception $e) {
$moneytext = "Failed to send your mail.
Please contact support!";
}
}

$check=$db->query("SELECT * FROM mail WHERE receiver = '".$playerguid."' AND subject ='".$subject."' LIMIT 1")or die(mysql_error());
if(mysql_num_rows($check)=='0') {
$status="Rechecking, just to make sure mail is actually sent:

.$shopid."&reciver=".$playerguid."&subject=".$subject."&realmid=".$realmid."&shash=".sha1($a_user['id'].$playerguid.$subject.$se_c.$shopid)."'>].$playerguid.$subject.$se_c.$shopid)."'>Check here if your mail is here.";

return "\"colorgood\">".$mailtext.$moneytext."

".$status;
}
else
return "\"colorbad\">Mail Problem: ".$remote_login."
Used login: ".$ra_user;
}

5 – Change the username, password, host, and port (in the code above):

$username = 'GMNAME';
$password = 'GMPASS';
$host = "localhost";
$soapport = 7878;

To a relevant account with admin access and you’re all set.
This modification will allow you to use SOAP instead of Remote Access and should work exactly the same.

WebWoW Captcha on Registration Mod

admin — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:35:02 +0000

The WebWoW CMS has just released a v2 beta which seems great so far.
Of course there are a few small bugs, but nothing that breaks functionality… Mostly undefined indexes and the like.

I will probably make a few mods and hacks for the CMS as it’s a great project with a nice style and ethos.
This simple modification will place a captcha on the registration page to help prevent spam, bots, and fake registrations.

After about 10 minutes of setting the WebWoW CMS I started to get bot registrations indicated by the spammy usernames and lack of activity.
Hopefully this will be of use to someone

Only two files edits are required so it shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes to implement.

WebWoW Registration Captcha Mod

Please remember to backup any files before editing!

1 – Open: engine/func/session.php

1a. Find: (about line 324)

function register($subuser, $subpass, $subemail){

Change To:

function register($subuser, $subpass, $subemail, $subcaptcha){

1b. Find: (about line 397)

$subemail = stripslashes($subemail);
}

Add BELOW:

/* captcha error checking - nowares */
$field = "captcha"; //Use field name for the generated captcha image
if(!$subcaptcha || $subcaptcha != $_SESSION['captcha']){
$form->setError($field, "* captcha incorrect");
}
else{
$subcaptcha = mysql_real_escape_string($subcaptcha);
}

2 – Open: engine/modules/register.php

2a. Find: (about line 26)

$retval = $user->register($_POST['user_name'], $_POST['pass_word'], $_POST['email']);

Replace with:

$retval = $user->register($_POST['user_name'], $_POST['pass_word'], $_POST['email'], $_POST['captcha']);

2b. Find: (about line 109)

echo $form->error("email"); ?>

Add BELOW:

<tr>
<td>Captcha:</td>
<td><img src="captcha/php_captcha.php"> <input name="captcha" type="text" style="width:65px;position:relative;bottom:5px;" value="value("captcha"); ?>" /></td>
<td>error("captcha"); ?></td>
</tr>

3. Upload: /captcha/ folder to your site root

Download Captcha Files

Please let me know if you find any errors or have any problems.

Install Windows 7 from USB device

admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:04:34 +0000

The Windows 7 downloaded image that many online software retailers supply is simple too large to install from a single CD, being about 2.2Gb
This short guide has step-by-step instructions on how to install Windows 7 from any USB device with more than 2.3Gb free space.

You will obviously need an original Windows 7 DVD or image file.
If using an image file it will need to be mounted on a virtual drive so you can access the files inside.
There are many free tools available for this, but I use Daemon Tools.
You will also need a Vista or Windows 7 PC as Windows XP doesn’t have the “diskpart” or “bootsect” tools.

I just downloaded Windows 7 and wanted to install it on a notebook.
There were two main problems with this:

The downloaded Windows 7 disc image was 2.23Gb
The notebook I intended to install windows 7 on doesn’t have a disc dirve!

I have a few spare USB drives laying around, so my 4Gb pen drive was the ideal candidate to install Windows 7 from.
Here’s what I did…

1. Insert the USB Flash Drive

2. Open the command prompt as
(Start-> All Programs-> Accesories, right click on the “Command Prompt” and select “Run as …”

3. To find out what number corresponds to the USB Flash Drive you should type the following in the “Command Prompt” window:

diskpart
list disk

The number corresponding to your USB will be appear in the list (see the USB and the capacity of)
This number will need in the next step. The USB Flash Drive is usually disk 1.

5. Format the USB drive by typing the following commands in the same window. Attention, replace the number “1″ on disk 1 to the number of your drive as emerged from the above list.

select disk 1
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs = NTFS
assign
exit

When you enter this, you will have a USB Flash Drive formatted to be bootable.

6. So, let’s make the USB bootable
The application called “bootsect” is on every Vista and Windows 7 disc and will help here. Using the same command prompt window from Step 2:

1. Put the Windows 7 disc in the drive of your computer or mount the image.
2. Change the drive in the command prompt to that of your drive. Suppose that the DVD drive is E:

e:
cd e:\boot

3. We will use the bootsect to define the USB as a bootable NTFS drive.
Suppose that the USB Flash Drive is G: \, your position in G: \ put the letter of your USB.
Enter:

bootsect / nt60 g:

4. You can close the command prompt,now the USB is bootable.

7. Copy all Windows 7 files to USB flash device.
Copy all files from DVD and paste it in the USB flash drive. Just copy all the files, you’re ready.

Now just set your BIOS to boot from your new USB version of Windows 7!

Intelligent Full Screen Button

admin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:52:46 +0000

I think it’s a widely known fact that Flash Games are getting bigger. The resolutions are increasing as well as the file sizes. This may pose a problem if you use AV Arcade to manage your arcade sites’ content.

The area usable for containing the games in AV Arcade’s default template is about 650px, which is fine for most games. Some other templates, on the other hand, use an area a lot smaller to contain the main Flash Game.

Some games I have on my Online Arcade Games site use a width of up to 800px, which can over lap the sidebar and hide their content.

It’s a simple problem to fix and can even help boost your arcade sites earnings a little…

The Fix

Upload a button or picture to:
*Yoursite.com*/templates/*YourTemplate*/images/play-fullscreen.png

Open:
*Yoursite.com*/content/game.php

Search For:

else
{
echo '.$row['width'].'" height="'.$row['height'].'">
.$row['url'].'">
.$row['url'].'" width="'.$row['width'].'" height="'.$row['height'].'">

';
}
}
else if (4 == $row['filetype'])

Add Above:

if ($row['width'] > 640)
{
echo "{$row['name']} uses a large resolution.

Click the button below to play in it's correct screen size!
";
echo ';
echo '" onclick="javascript:window.open(\'';
echo $row['url'];
echo '\',\'popup\',\'width=';
echo $row['width'];
echo ',height=';
echo $row['height'];
echo '\');">.$template_url.'/images/play-fullscreen.png" alt="Full Size" title="Play Full Size" />';
}

The above code will check if the game width is higher than 640px.
If 640px + then it will create a popup window with the game inside. It pulls the game URL and size from the SQL database.
When someone clicks the button the page will reload. So you should generate twice the adsense earnings from theses games… Which is a bonus.
You could link to the built in full screen mod, but I could never get it to act how I wanted.

I have been asked a few times about this, so thought I’d post a fix.
Hope someone finds it usefull.

Disable Post Revisions

admin — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:26:27 +0000

If you have run a WordPress blog for any length of time, you should know how large the SQL database can get.

This is largely due to the “Post Revisions”, which get auto-saved.
If you edit a post a few times, a huge list of revisions gets saved to the database. You can see these at the bottom of the post editing page.

This post has easy methods to disable and delete the post revisions, which are automatically cached by WordPress.

If you don’t use or need the post revisions which Worpdress has already saved for you, then you can delete them all by using the SQL query below:

DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type='revision';

You can also disable it from executing to start with by opening wp-config.php in your blog’s home directory.
Search for:

define('DB_COLLATE', '');

And add this under it:

define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', 0);
define('AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL', 600);

There is also a great WordPress Plug-in called WP-CMS Post Control, which gives you more control over how posts are edited.
This great WordPress plugin will allow you to:

Force standard browser upload instead of Flash upload
Turn off the revisions feature
Turn off the auto save feature
Create a collapsable message panel that appears below the write panel
Control which options are shown on the post page

I prefer to use the manual method, as too many plug-ins for WordPress can cause problems.

I don’t know anyone that has found the post revisions that WordPress saves, usefull.
Maybe in a future edition (v2.7 hopefully), they will include an option to disable from the admin control panel. But untill then thousands of blog owners will have to do it manually or use a plugin!

Dhtml Calculator Source Code

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:29:03 +0000

A DHTML calculator with error checking.
Definitely more stylish than the traditional JavaScript calculator, if nothing else!

Very easy to customize and would fit well into a website providing a variable rate service and suchlike.

It would be better to use css for all the styling and layout information, but it’s easier to copy and paste the source code below as one file.

<table border="2" width="200" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#000000"
style="border-color:black" onClick="previouskey=event.srcElement.innerText">
<tr>
<td width="100%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" id="result"
style="font:bold 20px Verdana;color:black;text-align='right'">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100%" valign="middle" align="center"><table border="0" width="100%"
cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font:bold 20px Verdana;color:white">
<tr>
<td width="80%" align="center"><table border="1" width="100%" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0" style="cursor:hand;font:bold 20px Verdana;color:white"
onMouseover="if (event.srcElement.tagName=='TD')event.srcElement.style.color='yellow'"
onMouseout="event.srcElement.style.color='white'" onselectStart="return false"
onClick="calculate()" height="82">
<tr>
<td width="25%" align="center" height="17">7</td>
<td width="25%" align="center" height="17">8</td>
<td width="25%" align="center" height="17">9</td>
<td width="25%" align="center" height="17">/</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="25%" align="center" height="19">4</td>
<td width="25%" align="center" height="19">5</td>
<td width="25%" align="center" height="19">6</td>
<td width="25%" align="center" height="19">*</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="25%" align="center" height="19">1</td>
<td width="25%" align="center" height="19">2</td>
<td width="25%" align="center" height="19">3</td>
<td width="25%" align="center" height="19">-</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="25%" align="center" height="19">0</td>
<td width="25%" align="center" height="19"
onClick="pn();previouskey=1;event.cancelBubble=true">+/-</td>
<td width="25%" align="center" height="19">.</td>
<td width="25%" align="center" height="19">+</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td width="20%"><div align="left"><table border="1" width="100%" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="100%" style="cursor:hand;font:bold 20px Verdana;color:white;text-align:center"
onClick="result.innerText=0;results=''">C</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div><div align="left"><table border="1" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
height="81">
<tr>
<td width="100%" style="cursor:hand;font:bold 32px Verdana;color:white;text-align:center"
onMouseover="event.srcElement.style.color='yellow'"
onMouseout="event.srcElement.style.color='white'" onClick="calculateresult()">=</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

<script language="JavaScript1.2">
/*
DHTML Calculator Script-
© Dynamic Drive (www.dynamicdrive.com)
For full source code, installation instructions,
100's more DHTML scripts, and Terms Of
Use, visit dynamicdrive.com
*/
var results=''
var previouskey=''
var re=/(\/|\*|\+|-)/
var re2=/(\/|\*|\+|-){2}$/
var re3=/.+(\/|\*|\+|-).+/
var re4=/\d|\./
var re5=/^[^\/\*\+].+\d$/
var re6=/\./

function calculate(){
if (event.srcElement.tagName=="TD"){
if (event.srcElement.innerText.match(re4)&&previouskey=="=")
results=''
if (result.innerText.match(re3)&&event.srcElement.innerText.match(re)){
if (!results.match(re5)){
result.innerText="Error!"
return
}
results=eval(results)
if (results.toString().length>=12&&results.toString().match(re6))
results=results.toString().substring(0,12)
result.innerText=results
}

results+=event.srcElement.innerText
if (results.match(re2))
results=results.substring(0,results.length-2)+results.charAt(results.length-1)

result.innerText=results
}
}

function calculateresult(){
if (!results.match(re5)){
result.innerText="Error!"
return
}
results=eval(results)
if (results.toString().length>=12&&results.toString().match(re6))
results=results.toString().substring(0,12)
result.innerText=results
}

function pn(){
if (result.innerText.charAt(0)!='-')
result.innerText=results='-'+result.innerText
else if (result.innerText.charAt(0)=='-')
result.innerText=results=result.innerText*(-1)
}

100 Great Ajax Scripts

admin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:01:59 +0000

I was googling for an ajax “contact us” form to finish off a website of mine.
I found a great page with a collection of 100 ajax scripts, ranging from simple forms so complex file manager systems!

The page contains 100 examples suitable for any level of programmer.
Each example has a live demo and source code available for download.

The web is changing and so is the way we posting data. If you take a look at Google, Facebook, and almost every new start up, simply posting form data is a thing of the past. You can now validate without posting, upload multiple files, change the way form elements work and much, much more. We gathered 100 of the web’s top AJAX/form related scripts. Use them to enhance your forms and impress your clients (Clients like fancy, pretty things).

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PHP Detect page to show code

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:45:16 +0000

I was recently offered an deal by an agency for my Free Online Arcade.

I use a PHP and MySQL based content management script called AV Arcade for most of the web site because it saves me hours of programming and design.

The were interested in displaying a text advert show near the top of only my home page. I played with the PHP template system for a while, but could not find a clean and simple way to insert the code into the page (As the whole site is one PHP page, modulated).

Instead of adding functions and inclusions in several files of the AV Arcade template system, I needed an easier way to include the advert on one page only.

After asking the great font of all knowing (google) then playing with the code a little, I came up with this…

$homepageadz = "/";
$currentpage = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
if($homepageadz==$currentpage) {
echo('ads n stuff');}
else{
echo('');
}
?>

The example php code below can be used to detect the current page and show output

It’s a good idea to learn about $_SERVER and $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'].

I used echo(‘ads n stuff’) to stop T_String errors when inserting adsense code or, more specifically, when using the “ character.
If you have to use “ in the echo output, remember to escape quote. I.e. \”

I know this is fairly basic and not going to impress anyone. But this quick fix can help until getting use to an alien templating system!
You could also extend it to detect other pages or make a simple admin page for it etc etc.