GGStatus 1.0

[utak3r]

Hello there

I've just uploaded to my homesite a new sidebar plugin for checking Gadu-Gadu status and its description. It's generally for polish users, as Gadu-Gadu is the most spreaded polish IM - and I don't think it's known anywhere else

Anyway, you can go to here and download this plugin.
There's one small bug in it for now, if I remove it, is somewhere a common-known place for uploading plugins?

cheers, Peter.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Great, thanks for getting involved! I'm sure this could get interesting!

If it is finished, I can upload it to Spartacus, our plugin repository. However I have a few suggestions before it can be uploaded:

1. Please replace polish code comments with english comments and polish output/error texts with translation constants - so that the code can also be maintained in the future easier.

2. If possible try to use the PEAR HTTP_Request class to open network connections to URLs. Have a look at the spartacus plugin or search plugins for "HTTP_Request" to see how it can be used easily by plugins. This will make your code a bit smaller, and less vulnerable to network problems because of PEARs abstraction

3. The output should better be made with XHTML compliant "<div>" containers instead of "<center>".

Very good work, thanks a lot!

Regards,
Garvin

[utak3r]

OK, thanks for your suggestions
After trying various engines I took this one, and I really would like to help.
I will review the code - plus I have to fight with one minor bug. When I will finish it, I'll give a sign

cheers, Peter.

[utak3r]

OK, a couple of edits done:

• 1. english code comments
  2. all error messages translatable
  3. fixed a bug (it was really slow, when a status description was empty)
  4. changed to DIVs

HTTP requests ain't PEARed yet... it's my next goal

You can download and watch it in action here:
GGStatus Serendipity plugin 1.1

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

That looks great! Tell me when you think you'd like to put your plugin to spartacus!

Do you know how to use CVS? If you have a Sourceforge.net account, I could give you CVS access so that you could maintain your plugin on our CVS spartacus hosting, if you like.

Also tell us if you have difficulty fixing the bug, and what the bug exactly is - maybe we can help you.

Looking forward to your contributions, they will sure be helpful for our project!

Best regards,
Garvin

[utak3r]

well...
PEARing already done
I had to use both HTTP_Request and a Net_Socket class, as a communication is a low level protocol - so it uses for example:

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$conn = &new Net_Socket();
$conn->connect($host, $port, null, 10)
$data = $conn->read(12);
$conn->write($data);
$conn->disconnect();

is this way ok? I've never used PEAR, but I think it should be ok (and it's working live).

BTW - I have a SF.net account, it's called 'utak3r' (I'm the co-author of Apophysis and am a polish translator of ed2k-gtk-gui). Yep, cvs access could be the easiest way, no troubling with bothering you each time I'll do something with this plugin

the link:
GGStatus plugin 1.2

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Sure, those Net_Socket connections are fine as well.

BTW - I have a SF.net account, it's called 'utak3r' (I'm the co-author of Apophysis and am a polish translator of ed2k-gtk-gui). Yep, cvs access could be the easiest way, no troubling with bothering you each time I'll do something with this plugin

Great! To ease things up, I've just granted you CVS developer access to our "additional_plugins" CVS repository here:

http://php-blog.cvs.sourceforge.net/php ... l_plugins/

Since you know about SF.Net CVS access, I hope that info suffices? Make a checkout of the repository, and you can add your plugin there.I watch the commit logs, so if there are any problems I'll try to help

I've also added your initial revision there!

Best regards,
Garvin

[utak3r]

OK, everything works