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I'm taking donations to help fund the creation of WebAuctionPlus 3.0. I'll explain why. maybe, as an incentive, I can do my best to take a feature request to work on next, in exchange for a donation.

one thing that will be changing in this big update, the item defines will be changed from php files to xml. I think I can speak for the volunteers when I say we've had enough manually making these data files. I'd like to have a tool to automatically generate these data files and all the item image icons. this would also allow server admins to use the texture pack of their server for the items, and fix the problem of different item id's with different mod packs, and would then support items from any mod. as you can see, this would make work easier and some nice improvements.

the problem, I haven't been able to find a mod dev to help with this, hence, the donations. if we can get a few donations, I can pass it on to a hopefully reputable mod dev, then I can move on with the project.

here's most of the 1.5 items. I'll probably be able to add the last 2 items tonight and compile the jar.

https://code.google.com/p/webauctionplus/source/detail?r=364

if anyone's wondering what it looks like when you have a chest with 8 rows, 72 slots, the gui glitches, so I have the plugin limit the size to 6. I came across this on my desktop, so thought I'd post it.

@ConnectCraft

I wonder what would actually perform better, downloading the skin each time, or caching in mysql. if mysql is faster, could do that, and use it as an automatic failover too.

@wumpyc

it's coming

@barzoyo

check console for the error that's causing it not to load. usually it's just database related. if it's something else, send me a pastebin of the logs and I'll check it out.

@LiLChris06

suggestions are always welcome. I plan to make plenty of ui improvements, as well as many new features, and I want better support for customizing it to fit your website. scary thing is, this means documentation. anyone want to head that project? it'd be a huge help to these plugins and new ones. there are already some powerful features built into the website that you can hook into if you know how.

if anyone's a pro youtube director, it'd be a great idea for us to work on detailed videos for installing and using the plugins.

@peti446

send me a pm or come catch me on irc some time, I'll help you get it working. you can try commenting out the lines I suggest in this comment http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/webauctionplus/?page=3#c974 or there's a way to switch it to debug mode to see the errors causing the problem.

@deleted_7583305

awesome. that's the way to ask a question. if only I had a video podcast to answer it on. first question, the most basic, are the website and the plugin jar/yml both sharing the same mysql database or do they connect to separate databases? they should both use the same one. one problem I've seen with another modded server is a bug in the mod itself, where the events the plugin needs haven't been added yet, so aren't ever triggered. the way you can check for this problem, watch the server in console when you open the mailbox then close it. you should see the plugin give messages each time. one when you open it, and one when you close it and it saves the items. feel free to send me a pm or catch me on irc one late night. I'm almost always on 2am to 8am est.

@SwiftSwamp

no worries. should be pretty easy for me to do. now that you have me thinking about this in more depth, I think what I'll do is post a link for an early version compiled for the dev build 1.5-R0.1 then I'll make a new official release once the first beta of bukkit is out.

I'd love to see more people get involved with these plugins. we get a nice group of people on irc at times, but I feel there's so much more we can do to make these plugins amazing. programmers yea, but there are other things we could use help with too. for one thing, what I'm good at is programming, not so much organizing these things. with the future release of 3.0, and the webook plugin, it'll be more of a suite of plugins. webook alone will be like none other.

@TomYaMee

I'll take a look at it. it's probably been broken for a while and no one reported it and I just keep forgetting.. lol. probably an easy fix in the code.

the past few days I've been doing some work on my bash scripts. I just finished them, and a backup is running at the moment. if anyone's interested, bash is a bit complicated, but very useful http://code.google.com/p/serverscripts/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Fscripts now, once this first backup finishes, I can run my new install.sh script and I'll have automatic crons set up on my server to keep repo mirrors updated every 4 hours. no chance I can forget, not that it's ever been a problem before. just something handy to help with future development. it also emails logs to me and saves dated log files, and I can screen into it while it's running.

now that those scripts are done, I'll get back to some website coding tomorrow. I'll still also have to write a new bash script to build the zip files I release. the bat script still works, but why have one single script written for windows and do everything else on linux. I'll post again once I get something done tomorrow and know where the project is standing. lots of fun code :-)

@Mre30

by admin sale, you mean unlimited stocK? easiest way at the moment, try manually changing the qty in the database for one of the auctions. you can set it to something crazy high like 1000000 a million. I believe it has an 11 digit limit, and other limits, so don't just fill it with 50 zeroes.

@TomYaMee

announcements are broadcast for new items put up for sale, and there's the message announcer at the bottom of the config.yml. are there other announcements you'd like to have added?

@nija646

any exceptions in console? soft reloads are prone to glitches and memory leaks in any java program, unless handled very well. web auction handles reloading moderately well, but it's possible there's another bug related to something specific in your setup. if you pastebin any exceptions you see in console, it'll help me track down any problems. it is generally much more reliable to just stop and restart the entire bukkit server.

@morlanius

not sure what you mean. I admit, the only time I use potions in game is when I'm testing this plugin. but I'd still like to get them fixed if there's still bugs.

@Jahb57

yea, I do plan to support that player heads plugin. I have to find how to grab the meta data and someplace to save it in the database. item custom descriptions, I did want to add, and it's even partially implemented already, but I ran into a problem. where do I put the description in the display table? the datatables framework makes it difficult to modify the table itself.

@TomYaMee

replied. I'll get to the rest of the tickets over the next few days.

@Chsteerr

in what way? I've thought about having an auctioneer, but that's just flash, not much function. any other ideas for it?