uogateway.com in progress

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 4:49 pm

I will be starting on making it a topsite list shortly. Should not be too complicated. I just feel the need to do something and not just let it sit there, so I will take a small break from the revamp to code that site. I will most likely be adding extra anti spam security to this forum so I can reopen registrations and use this site for support.

Eventually I'd love to make a launcher app too that works without razor in case razor goes under (there are rumors this could happen), but for now it will be just a topsite list.

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Plastic Man · Post by **Plastic Man** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 4:51 pm

I like the graphic you have up at the moment. Lawl.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 6:42 pm

lol very nice landing page.

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Trill · Post by **Trill** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 5:24 pm

So i looked on there and it says at the bottom to check out age of valor does this mean the auto account has been reactivated or players can make new accounts now?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 5:40 pm

No that's been there for a while.

If SQL proves to be very stable I might do a pre-release, which will include the account form, and I *might* reopen registration, but not sure yet. SQL still needs tons of testing before I want to put it on live.

At least with the form, we can add extra security like captcha, email auth, etc making it a bit harder to make tons of accounts.

But at this point I rather wait till revamp is done so I don't have to be checking in-game every 5 minutes with fear that someone is hacking or advertising other shards.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:00 am

Here's some screenshots of the progress of day 2.

The web portion is almost fully functional. Once it's tested to be secure and work properly, I will then work on the backend app that will generate the stats.

Generating graphs is something I've never done before, so this should be interesting. The backend app will be written in C++ and run off the AoV server. Basically it will poll each shard every now and then to get data like online count, average response time, etc.

Main page:

Add shard:

Edit shard:

Confirmation email:

Yeah, that template is ugly, it's temp, those colors will most likely change, and there will be a better header and footer.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:45 pm

I'm running a bit behind schedule on this as mysql++ (C++ library) is being a real pain to install on my dev server, and considering I'll have to go through the same trouble on production, I decided to scrap that library and study the mysql protocol and write my own library which will save me days, if weeks, of troubleshooting, every time I need to deploy any C++ mysql app.

What is left to do:

- Make a better looking template
- Code the pooler application to pool all the shards and get stats
- Make this pooler app also generate PNG graphs on the activity (network response time, onlines, average uptime % possibly).

once these 3 things are done I should be able to launch.

I have an unofficial launch here:

http://www.uogateway.com/index2.php

It is possible to submit a shard right now, though not everything works since lot of stuff points to index.php which will be the actual home file.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 12:04 am

Good news and bad news!

Bad news: Coding a SQL connector class prooved to be difficult due to lack of detailed protocol docs, so I put that idea to bed.

Good news: I managed to get mysql++ working on my server, so I can start coding the actual pooler app. Now I just need to try to get it working on the production server but I'll worry about that later.

By end of this week all should be good, hopefully. Hopefully the png library will be easy enough to setup. Yes, png. I plan to have full blown real time stats on each shard. Uptime, online, network response time, and anything else I may think of.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 12:42 am

Updated the poller app and added to live server. Hopefully it does not mess anything up since I'm going to bed.

So far it seems to be updating nicely.

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