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@Moira13: I'm not sure I understand your question. To configure the database you will need the mysql server's address, the mysql username and password, and the name of the database that your application stores data in. You'll need to get this information from your web/mysql hosting provider if you do not know what it is.

@Melekaiah: Joomla (and Wordpress) are what prompted the need for 2.x. I started out coming up with a revised config.yml that would handle joomla, wordpress, and apps with similar schemas, keeping the config.yml understandable...and discovered that to get there, I had to rewrite most of the plugin, which is still underway. To some degree, you may be able get around the limitation with Joomla by using custom profile fields that take the place of the fields that CommunityBridge expects a CMS to have.

@WizardCM: Wordpress presents some special considerations. First, Wordpress natively doesn't have a real notion of groups. Which is the main problem preventing it from being compatible with CommunityBridge 1.x. In 1.x, the "player linking" feature is deeply entwined with the group-synchronization feature. To clearly separate the two features required rewriting a great deal of the code and still in progress. That version of CommunityBridge I've taken up calling 2.x.

It may be possible to use a Wordpress plugin that adds "custom profile fields", such as CIMY Extra Fields (that's not the only plugin that provides custom profile fields, just the only one I can think of off the top of my head). With it, you could create a the fields that CommunityBridge will need to work. At minimum, CommunityBridge 1.x will need:

• A way to link a Minecraft Player Name to a wordpress User ID
• A field that contains a "Group ID" that the player should be in.

Regardless of version (1.x or 2.x), the following features will require a wordpress plugin that provides custom profile fields. Wordpress simply doesn't have enough of a feature set without plugins.

• Group synchronization (primary or secondary)
• Statistics Tracking
• Banning players based on a group/list/etc. on the website

@MCCharlieCraft: Ugh. Go ahead and create a support ticket and include your config.yml (with the database connection info wiped out/redacted). Meanwhile, I'll take a look at the code and make sure I didn't miss something obvious. :)

@monkeymanboyperson: The answer is essentially the same as the one I gave GeekyCreeper about weebly.com: Your questions probably need to be directed to webs.com's support. You may not know what questions to ask them, so here's some suggested questions:

1. Can I add a MySQL-based forum or content management system (CMS) or some other app that includes user accounts and groups?
2. Can I allow access to the forum/CMS/app's MySQL database from an external site/machine?
3. (possibly optional) Does the forum/CMS/app have a mechanism for adding custom user profile fields?

• #1 covers the need for a web application that has user accounts and that the back-end is MySQL.
• #2 covers a common security practice for MySQL database servers where the database server rejects connections from all machines except a specific list, usually the machine that the website is hosted on.
• #3 may be needed if you want to use the tracking feature or have the user account username be different from the Minecraft player name.

If you already know the answers to those questions, then you'll need to follow up with specific questions about the web-application (forum, CMS, etc.) that you'll be using.

@GeekyCreeper: I imagine that covers what you need for CommunityBridge.

@GeekyCreeper

Hmm. Your questions probably need to be directed to weebly.com's support. You may not know what questions to ask them, so here's some suggested questions:

1. Can I add a MySQL-based forum or content management system (CMS) or some other app that includes user accounts and groups?
2. Can I allow access to the forum/CMS/app's MySQL database from an external site/machine?
3. (possibly optional) Does the forum/CMS/app have a mechanism for adding custom user profile fields?

• #1 covers the need for a web application that has user accounts and that the back-end is MySQL.
• #2 covers a common security practice for MySQL database servers where the database server rejects connections from all machines except a specific list, usually the machine that the website is hosted on.
• #3 may be needed if you want to use the tracking feature or have the user account username be different from the Minecraft player name.

Past week and half I've been very busy and unable to respond to support requests or work on 2.x. Between work and caring for a family member who pulled/strained/something a muscle in their back (they could barely move the first couple of days!), I've had no time...I'll be trying to catch up over the next few days...:)

Some replies to folks: @Chaett: Initially, I didn't feel comfortable having a donate button because the work is not wholly mine; I took over a project from NoRC (whom, I believe, took it over from someone else). However, at this point, I feel I've invested enough hours into it that if someone wishes to donate, they can. So I've added a donate button to this project page.

@Pythros: You want the player to have connected to the server at least once before being able to register on the website? Currently, no. I think that would require a plugin for _Xenforo_ in addition to a plugin on the Minecraft Server side. I won't write a plugin for the web-application side, but if someone does, I could be convinced to add the feature to CB for the Minecraft Server side of it.

@dscm: I'll add pinoycraft.net to the list.

@rletch:

• If you mean "can more than one Minecraft Server synchronize with a single web application": I don't know that it has been tested, but I can't think of a scenario where it wouldn't work, so: Yes.
• If you mean "can one Minecraft Server be synchronized with more than one web application", then the answer is no...

@Maddis1337: Hmm. How tedious. I guess I should go through and check them. :)

@DavMicrofix: When v2.0 releases. I don't have a clear sense of when that will be yet. To provide clean support for Joomla, Wordpress, and "MC to Forum" sync, the I've had completely revise the configuration. Take at look at the forums for more details.