After two weeks of intense work, I am excited to present RosterMaster StandAlone 5.0.0 Beta 1! This version is definitely the biggest update in years, thanks in big part to SOE making some very detailled data feeds available for guild and roster data. This new version offers over 30 different fields that can be displayed on your roster, and should update more regularily than their old half-broken XML/CSV feeds.
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Make sure you read the changelog, as there are important changes with this new version.
Changes in 5.0.0 Beta 1 (21-Dec-2011)
This is the biggest update in years, thanks to the availability of new character data feeds from SOE.
*** The database schema has changed - make sure you select the appropriate database upgrade from the configuration page.
*** Many changes in available fields - make sure you edit your configuration. Using the available presets as a starting point is strongly recommended.
*** PHP requirement has been bumped to 5.0, with SimpleXML support required.
*** German (and French, in part) translations are outdated. If you can help update these, please contact me.
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NEW: Data retrieved from new XML data feeds provided by SOE. These provide much more data for me to play with than the previous basic XML/CSV feeds, and they should also be far more reliably updated.
Note that characters that haven't logged since those feeds went live will be reported as "No Data" on the roster. You can optionally hide these in the configuration, under Display ("Hide Characters for which we have no data").
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NEW: Added Beastlord support
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NEW: Added support for having both secondary tradeskills
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NEW: Many new fields for your display templates (now over 30 fields to chose from).
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NEW: Presets for display templates. You can select a set of fields for your roster pages that most closely matches your guild's playstyle, and edit it further afterward.
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NEW: Race field, with optionally displayed icons done by Seagoat. Thanks! :)
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NEW: Implemented config version checking. You will be pointed back to the configuration page if you try to access a roster which requires you to update your configuration.
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NEW: Option to show/hide the Export (to CSV) link on the menu. Now disabled by default (unless logged as an admin).
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NEW: Config options that are new or changed since last version will show a flashing red asterisk next to their description on the configuration interface.
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NEW: Added new Top 5 charts to the Guild Summary page (Newest members, Most Kills and Most Deaths).
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IMPROVED: You can have now up to 5 stats pages defined on your roster.
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IMPROVED: When available Curl will automatically be used for fetching data from SOE, otherwise file_get_contents() will be used.
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IMPROVED: Numeric-based grouping: extended status beyond 2.5M, generic ranges used for quests, crafted, harvested, and a few others.
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IMPROVED: Rewrote the CSV generator (for roster export) to be more flexible, more robust, and RFC-compliant.
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IMPROVED: A slight touch of CSS3 on the tooltip popups
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NERFED: In order to make the code easier to maintain, flatfile and PostgreSQL support has been dropped, as they weren't really used anymore, and MySQL is pretty much the norm with web hosting these days.
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NERFED: Removed the example config.php.dist file, as manually editing this file is no longer recommended due to the large amount of config entries.
[Download removed - please get Beta 2 here instead!]
