Version 1.0 of Folding-Stats-Plus! ..nearly

Well i think its finally ready! To coincide with wordpress 2.7 I’m about to release version 1.0 of my plugin.

To get the advanced stats you have to be part of a team and enter your team number into the admin section, the plugin then pulls the XML feed from http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ Your team does have to be in the top 6000 teams for this to work.

I’m waiting for permission to use the XML feed then it can be released! I got permission via email so version 1.0 is officially released!

17 Comments

  1. Rich on 23rd December 2008 at 5:56 am

    I just noticed that WordPress told me that version 1.0 was available. I tried both a upgrade and a new download and both give me the error of: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in C:…….wp-contentpluginsfolding-stats-plusfoldingstatsplus.php on line 256

  2. pross on 24th December 2008 at 2:40 pm

    hi rich!

    Strange how you get that error, line 256 is the last line of the script, i made sure there were no blank lines after and re-uploaded so please try to download again.
    I notice your using windows, are you testing locally or is it a server?

  3. Rich on 26th December 2008 at 9:38 pm

    I tried it again both using the auto-install process right in WordPress and also by downloading it from the WordPress plugin page and uploading the ZIP file through my WordPress site. Neither worked. I’m running this on my own server. It is running Windows XP Pro and Apache. I also tried downloading the ZIP file and placing it directly onto my webserver. All result in the same error – this time it indicates line 255 instead of 256.

  4. pross on 26th December 2008 at 10:01 pm

    what version of php is on the server?

  5. Rich on 27th December 2008 at 4:03 am

    I’m using PHP Version 5.2.6 and Apache/2.2.9

    • pross on 1st January 2009 at 8:38 pm

      testing threaded reply

  6. Rich on 27th December 2008 at 4:50 am

    Update – I figured it out. With your code the PHP setting for Short Open Tags needs to be on because you use the “<?” to open some of your PHP sections instead of “<?php” I turned that option on and now I can activate the plugin.

  7. pross on 27th December 2008 at 12:44 pm

    Glad you sussed it out 🙂
    I removed all the shortags from 1.1

  8. Jestre on 28th December 2008 at 6:27 pm

    Does one need to be a member of the extremeoverclocking team to use this? I notice my stats do not show up in their stats (and hence the plugin shows nothing), though I do show up on the F@H and dc-stats sites.

  9. pross on 28th December 2008 at 6:57 pm

    Jestre :
    Does one need to be a member of the extremeoverclocking team to use this? I notice my stats do not show up in their stats (and hence the plugin shows nothing), though I do show up on the F@H and dc-stats sites.

    no, you can be a member of any team, however for the stats to work your team has to be in the top 6000 teams on EOC.

  10. Jestre on 29th December 2008 at 12:02 am

    @pross
    Okay, that is probably why then, as I am not a member of any team. Thank you.

  11. pross on 29th December 2008 at 1:15 am

    Jestre :
    @pross
    Okay, that is probably why then, as I am not a member of any team. Thank you.

    if your not a member of any team the plugin should fall back to getting stats from the stanford site, have you tryed reseting the cache in the options page? if the stanford site is updating the database it will return empty results….

  12. Anonymous on 3rd January 2009 at 6:11 am

    A couple of ideas for future enhancements.
    1) Allow changing the color of the labels for the stats. With my theme black doesn’t show up, I manually change them to white. Also make the up/down arrow info in the stats the same color as the other stats. I’ve made this change too.
    2) Show the individual rank within the team.

    Thanks so much for this great plugin!!

    • pross on 3rd January 2009 at 5:04 pm

      Nice ideas thx!
      I have already added a class to the results so you can change the overall css, but maybe i will add a second class for the results also, do you have a link to your blog so i can see your css in action?

  13. Rich on 3rd January 2009 at 10:45 pm

    Sure thing – I didn’t realize I didn’t put my name and website on my last post! I’m the same one that had the problem. My website is http://www.mathwhiz.org. I just hardcoded the white in where I needed it.

  14. pross on 3rd January 2009 at 11:33 pm

    Here heres what i have so far, there is some new css classes used by the plugin that you can use in your themes css file, these are:
    folding
    folding_label
    folding_results
    folding_arrow
    here is the css i use in my theme:

    #folding div { line-height:1.5em ! important }
    .folding_arrow {
    font-style: italic;
    }

    here is a link to the test file: http://www.pross.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/12.zip

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