WebChess

This message is mainly for the developers of WebChess, if you use this file, you do so at your own risk. It may or may not work on your server and I offer very little support. Although bug reports gladly accepted, but post them here.

I have made many modifications to WebChess and am offering them to the developers as a collection of all the files on my server. Please go to:
http://www.iohelix.com/misc/webchess.zip
and download the arhive there, unzip it into your testing server and run the install script included to set up your tables.

Many of the requested features are included in this file, as well as some that I thought of and implemented. Not all features are absolutely bug free and functional, but nearly all of them are.

A short list of some of the feature included are listed in the readme file in the archive.

Let me know what you think.
Benjam

p.s.- I created these on PHP 5.1 and MySQL 5.0
so if they don't work for you (namely the install file) let me know.

I have, since uploading this file, discovered some bugs through the help of Steve Cody.

Because of this, I would recommend that, after downloading the file, make sure that it has the current revision number in the readme file (2).

If you get a file not found error, I have removed the original to prevent people from getting the old version until I can upload the new version tomorrow (2005-12-06).

Sorry about that.

The updated version is available at the address above.

I have updated the script to Revision 3

There are a large number of changes (improvements ?) in this revision. So be aware that this revision may not be compatible with previous revisions, and that the version I am offering is not compatible with previous versions of WebChess, but an update script is included with the archive.

If you have downloaded this already, please re-download from the above address and take a look at the improvements.

As always, if the developers wish to incorporate my changes into the official product, please do so and no credit is required.

Any bug reports? Please post them here.

Comments from the developers are most appreciated.

Hi!

I just found the old 0.8.3 version that I decided to play with after about 2 years (in the meantime, i learn oodle s of php)..

Anyways, I started to hack it and oddly, I was going in the same direction.. international support, having an includes...

My gripe right now is session. I spent last night hacking my old version to use cookies to remember users and provide the auto-login deal...

I like your coding style but my thing is i don't know java script..

SInce I just discovered your new updated version and it's rather late tonight, I'll play with it tomorrow...

PS: If I get your version installed (i see no reason why not), i'll start working on the spanish po file... =)

I am trying to get the install to work with no luck. I keep getting this message:

The errors were:
Unable to add table `wc_chat` to the database.
Unable to add table `wc_communication` to the database.
Unable to add table `wc_games` to the database.
Unable to add table `wc_history` to the database.
Unable to add table `wc_messages` to the database.
Unable to add table `wc_pieces` to the database.
Unable to add table `wc_players` to the database.

I have double checked the db name Id and password. It is the same info I use to login with the mysqlman application. Any idea what else to check?

Try doing this:

open the install script and everythwere you see a line similar to this:
$error_msg .= "Unable to add table `".T_CHAT."` to the database.<br />\n";

change the end to read:
... database.<br />\n".mysql_error()."<br />\n";

that will output some errors to your screen and may be able to assist you in finding the cause of the problem.

If you have any more questions, let us know.