LOTRoster now into beta

I have just made LOTRoster 0.9 Beta 1 available for download.  LOTRoster is a new web application written in PHP and based on my own RosterMaster StandAlone, but aimed at players of the Lord Of The Rings Online MMORPG.

The features are pretty similar to those offered to RMSA, with a few additions to handle all the extra data made available by Turbine (who did an excellent job at providing such a complete access to user data through XML feeds).  I have also implemented an offline updating system that is required for LOTRoster due to the large number of URLs it must access from Turbine's website to update its local cache.  I might eventually port this system to RMSA, although the performance of EQ2Players is pretty good these days, so there isn't much need for this feature.

Since it is a first public release, and also due to the fact that I am not a LOTRO player myself, I'm open to suggestions, comments, etc...  Please drop me a note if you do install it and even if everything seems fine, so I can get an idea of actually how much interest there is for LOTRoster.  This will be critical in determining how much further development time I should spend on this after version 1.0 is finalized.

Installed

Hello again! :) Aruen here.

I just wanted to leave a comment here, so you have a consolodated place to see who has this installed.

The provided demo is using our kinship information, but in case that changes in the future, you can see our installation here:

http://www.graceofthevalar.com/lotroster/

Installed!

I've been meaning for a few days to tell you that I installed LOTRoster, and it's working great for our kinship. I'm not doing anything fancy with it - not linked to the forum login or anything, but it's been useful. The charts were an eye-opener for us, and I really like seeing the guild's daily progress via the logfile updates. One thing I'm thinking of hacking in for myself is the ability to limit the level range of characters represented on the charts, so that abandoned low-level characters don't clog the stats.

Thanks for this! I'm glad I saw the announcement before your thread vanished from the my.lotro.com forum, or I don't know how I would've heard of it.