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@LegendaryAdmin

Sounds good. I'm ready when you are.

@LegendaryAdmin

I think just removing the slash after ".com".

dbUrl: jdbc:mysql://mysql-phx.demonvps.com:3306/mcdbus2372

If you can list the error(s) you get when the server crashes, I'll update Reminder to handle the exception.

@LegendaryAdmin

You're almost there! This is the hardest part but its not really that hard. This is an example URL:

jdbc:mysql://192.168.1.1:1234/database-name

Let's break it down. "jdbc" is the provider. "mysql" is the protocol. Keep that just as it is. ( jdbc:mysql: )

Set "//192.168.1.1" to the IP address of your MySQL server. You can find that on your admin page. Remember to put two slashes ( // ) before the IP address.

":1234" is the TCP port that your MySQL server is listening on. You may be able to find that on your admin page too. Either that or the FAQ for your hosting provider. Remember to precede the port number with a colon ( : ).

Finally is the database name: "/database-name". Hosting providers usually set you up with a default database. Reminder will automatically create its table. Remember to precede the database name with a single slash ( / ).

If you are using Multicraft as your server control panel, you'll find most of the information under Advanced -> MySQL Database.

@LegendaryAdmin

You are more than welcome.

Yes! Reminder can do one reminder for all the Votifier sites. Simply set the reminder tag to be the same for all of your Votifier sites. This way, each vote will update the same reminder instead of separate reminders. You are so right about too many reminders. Here is a simplified example to be put in GA's config.yml:

services:
  default:
    commands:
    - reminder delete {username} tag VOTE
    - reminder add {username} tag VOTE 'It looks like you haven't voted yet today. 12 votes, 12 diamonds, 2 minutes. /vote to collect!' +1440 delay 3 rate 5 echo 3

So, in the command section, the first command will delete all reminders that have the name of the player who voted AND have the tag VOTE.

The second command creates a reminder with the tag VOTE having your message (you can add color). It will start 1440 minutes (24 hours) from the time they voted (the + adds the minutes to the current time). The message will delay three minutes after a player joins. It will repeat every 5 minutes, 3 times.

This results in one reminder per voting player. If the player votes on multiple Votifier sites, the one reminder for the player will be replaced with the new one each time.

One thing I find annoying about some list servers is that some of them make you at least 24 real hours (or more), and not just for the next calendar day. I suppose this is because we are all over the world playing Minecraft. Still, I think they could accommodate time zones. But then again, some of us play all night and others play during the day [and at night too ; ) ]. The reason I mention this is that it may be preferred to have the reminder just count days and have it send messages based on days regardless of the time of day. For this, I recommend setting the time to several hours, making the assumption that a player may be on for a few hours and knowing that Reminder will wait for that player to return before sending messages. This will appear to be the next day.

Regarding setting up MySQL, what cha got for a server? Are you using a hosting plan like MSProHosting that includes MySQL?

@LegendaryAdmin

A Youtube video is a great idea. I'll work on that.

MySQL is a requirement. Its a fairly basic (simple) database. You will need MySQL for storage of reminders. MySQL is very worth learning. You don't really have to learn MySQL to use Reminder, just hook it up. I have been considering flat file backend. I think I'll add that to the list for the next update.

Give me a sample of what you would like the reminder message to display and I'll reply with the command(s) to do that. I'm very happy to help with examples.

@dawnsin

dawnsin, yes! This works with any link in chat or reminder. First format the link as "http://someurl.com". Most players know that when a link is displayed in chat, they can either press "/" or "T" and then hover the mouse pointer over the link and then left-click. The Minecraft client will ask if you want to go to the link or if you want to copy the link to the clipboard.

-Chris

Please visit http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/reminder/ for most current release (version 1.1.1).

Version 1.1.1

• Disabled auto updater because Curse does not reliably post updates to JSON query.
• Altered broadcast algorithm to make broadcast reminder echo player independent.
• Corrected broadcast delay which was delaying in milliseconds instead of seconds.

@DavMicrofix

That's a great idea! I have seen something similar to your description in the plugin HolographicDisplays. I will add that idea to the list.

@DavMicrofix

Oh, By the way, you can also edit the database directly to deal with very long messages.

@DavMicrofix

Thank you for posting! I will take a look at the problem with "/?".

Regarding adding longer messages, try adding without specifying delay, count and echo. Then update the reminder to change delay, count and echo. Try this:

Example 1

1. /reminder add * sometag 'A very long message including color formatting delayed 60 minutes, presented once an hour, repeats forever'
2. /reminder update * sometag delay 60 echo 60 count -1

Example 2

1. /reminder add * someothertag 'A very long message including color formatting delayed 5 minutes, presented every 10 minutes, repeats 5 times...'
2. /reminder update * someothertag delay 5 echo 10 count 5

Regarding a message to be presented to a player 5 minutes after join, I will add that ability. That's a great idea! I'll start working on that right away.

Edit

Actually you can add "delay 60" to a global reminder and it will delay a reminder for any player by 60 minutes from their login. Anyway, I'm working on the count for global reminders. Just realized it doesn't make sense for it to decrement to zero. But it does make sense to limit the number of time a global message might be displayed to a player in a given session.

DavMicrofix ,

Here's the source of the problem. https://api.curseforge.com/servermods/files?projectIds=76647 is not listing Reminder v1.1. Not sure if there is some propagation delay but Curse.com is showing the correct version. Until version 1.1 is listed on api.curse.com, please disable updated in config.yml:

autoUpdate: false

If using Curse to detect update is not reliable, I'll remove auto update.

I apologize for the inconvenience. I appreciate you letting me know.

-Chris