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yup its a wordpress widget now. Plugin and go. Shazam! you now have a vent server status monitor on your wordpress blog

Please post comments and bugs below so i can fix reported issues thanks.

Change Log

0.5.11
Project submission to wordpress

0.6.46
-added jQuery auto refresh
*fixed Server responce lag issue
*fixed version notes in svn README.txt
-added screenshot-1.png
-added screenshot-2.png

0.7.77
-this version was formorly 1.3.24
*Cleaned up the code.
*Fixed the file location bug in the widget.
-added a post based display module, please see installation.

1.0.115
*fixed version oversite (project just now reached 1.0 state.)
-added options page
-added hosted option
*change widget control to dynamic insertion
-added file permissions test option for the managed section.

1.0.318
*fixed display delay for hosted option
-added hosted.php file(jQuery work around for Post())
-added loading.gif
-added loading sequence in ajax to increase page load speeds
-added fancy graphics to display
-updated screenshots
-added width options
-added fancy/plain toggle
-added custom colors
-added hex color data to buildTable

1.0.326
*changed the use of file_get to cURL_get as a potential security risk workaround.

I am having an issue where the widget is blank on my site. I'm using wordpress 2.8.2. Anywhere I can look to see what the problem is?

Thanks.

is it blank or is there an error its displaying to you? Should be an error if the server does not display.

I had a problem with the plugin on my server. The fix is to put the full path to the ventrilo_status program in the script.

change line 7 which is

$stat->m_cmdprog = dirname(__FILE__)."/ventrilo_status";

to this

$stat->m_cmdprog = "/home/vent/ventsrv/ventrilo_status";

Thanks to the author it is working on my server now.

The plugin is perfect for WP.

ditto
it's blank

no errors

i tried changed the path several times with no luck. i'll keep trying and let ya know how it goes.

make sure that you have the permissions set to 755 on the ventrio_status program.

It still shows it blank...doesn't seem to work right...

hmm, well i noticed from another guy, he had to contact his webhost because his host had the port blocked. Might want to check that too.

I will look at the script again and try to figure out what the hell wordpress is doing to it. It works fine on all of my servers.

I'm still having issues with mine. Got the same error message ("PHP Unable to start external status process. ") , but have changed the permissions(755), have changed wp-extremespy and status to full path, the port SHOULD be open (cause we used to have another vent spy module).

Any other suggestions?

I've been looking all over the code, where exactly do I enter my ventrilo information in the code?

Dont edit the code. use the options tab in the settings. It does everything for you. If you choose to reverse engineer my code then your on your own. The options panel will do everything you would ever want to do with the plugin. And if you want to use the raw code then look at the post in this forum for extremespy. does the exact same thing without the use of the wordpress plugin.

Nah I'm not trying to reverse engineer it, I'm no coder or programmer at all, which is why I'm asking here xD.

Thanks for your response btw.
I found my problem and it was that I was looking in the wrong place for the options ( I couldn't find the options you were talking about/that the readme file talked about). I found it now though.

Except now it's only showing your server despite me changing the settings to mine when I choose Hosted Interface. I don't have my vent hosted on my own server, I have mines paid for from a ventrilo hosting company so I'm assuming my only option is the Hosted Interface correct?

And if so, is it normal then for it to not show mines yet because it still needs to refresh? (It's been 6 minutes).

Also, if you ARE hosting your own ventrilo on your server, how are you doing that? Last I checked I could only run an 8 slotted one =/.

No you have things wrong he is not running his own vent server he is indeed renting his
own. He did say something about his server in a different post of this forum.



Here he makes it sound like it's his own server but as you may know Flagship(the maker of Ventrilo) makes things
difficult to host ones own's server over 8 slots. Even onykage does not have the capability to run his own over 8
slots but even if he could it would be cheaper to rent one rather than to pay for the electricity wasted by running
a PC 24/7.

By doing a little research of my own the company which he rents from is called LightSpeed Gaming with their
website being:

http://www.light-speed.com/

Hopefully this will clear things up for you.

That's the same company that I pay for mines.

And my ventrilo is still not showing up on my site, it's still showing Okynage's vent status.
I have mines set to Hosted Interface (again, still waiting on response about whether or not Managed Interface means that you're required to run the vent on your own server, and if not, how do i set this up and what do I put in the path for Program Location in the options tab for ventspy on my wordpress for it to show my own ventrilo?)

I have the vent server and ip address set to my vent, and it's still showing yours.

*EDIT*
I just changed the permissions for the ventrilo_status file to 755 like it asked me to and it says Passed in green. But my server is still not showing up.

I have this message instead though: PHP Unable to start external status process.

hosted will not refresh.

there was an issue on my end, I appologise for that.

its fixed, thanks for pointing it out.

everything should work now.

I will update the instructions to explain where the options pane is.

that error can be caused by several reasons. Most probably your host will not allow the program to run or they have the ports blocked. Use the hosted option.

And to anyone who has emailed me with this question or if your thinking about it...

I will not add a refresh option to the hosted version unless i get some generous web host to donate unlimited resources and bandwidth to the script being 1 copy of the script at a refresh interval of 60 seconds eats 100mb of bandwidth per day. Stack this on a few thousand people using this script and, this one little script will require its own server just to run it. So with that idea in mind, I hope you can understand why I have disabled the refresh option. And manually refreshing the script will not result in anything other then a ban on the hosted option, so to anyone else reading this, use the script; but if you want to refresh the list, use your own resources, dont try to reverse engineer the script and use mine, You may find that your website becomes blacklisted by my firewall due to script hit limitations already implemented. And no, if my firewall blacklists your site, I will not remove the ban. I have alot of fail-safes in place, and the only way to trigger a autoban by the system is to violate what I stated previously about refreshing my hosted script. Please dont make me be a rude asshole and have to disable the hosted option because you are too lazy to make the managed version work on your host.