Originally by: XFranc

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Hi there,

Im having some strange errors at the moment and I cant tell if its down to the API or not .

When I run the Sov update - I get this :

Not a valid xml string

When I run the Alliance update - I get this :

atal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'String could not be parsed as XML' in /path/pos/updateallianceinfo.php:25 Stack trace: #0 /path/pos/updateallianceinfo.php(25): SimpleXMLElement->__construct('') #1 {main} thrown in /path/pos/updateallianceinfo.php on line 25

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,

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Originally by: XFranc

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Edited by: XFranc on 07/04/2008 15:51:10
Heres a strange one, whenever I do a cron update of the Alliance info - I get this error at the start of the mail :

could not get pos_info; Table '.pos_info' doesn't exist

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I can not find any refrences to pos_info in cron_updateallianceinfo.php, that was the old name of the the database table tower_info. What version are you running?

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Originally by: S'if

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Can someone give me the novice guide to setting up the cron process.

I have set up the scheduled task to run postrackercron.sh and poscron.sh. Is that correct? Do I need to edit those two files and if so what do I need to put in them? Whatever I've tried doesn't seem to be working so if someone can take the time to explain in detail what needs to be done it would be much appreciated.

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Originally by: XFranc

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Hi there,

Im having some strange errors at the moment and I cant tell if its down to the API or not .

When I run the Sov update - I get this :

Not a valid xml string

When I run the Alliance update - I get this :

atal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'String could not be parsed as XML' in /path/pos/updateallianceinfo.php:25 Stack trace: #0 /path/pos/updateallianceinfo.php(25): SimpleXMLElement->__construct('') #1 {main} thrown in /path/pos/updateallianceinfo.php on line 25

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,



With the help of a friend we managed to resolve this by doing the following :

Removed this line from :

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

//Begins connecting to eve api

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
// curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
$counttotal = 0;
$updatestotal = 0;
$time = time();

TBH, I dont know why this fixed it, but thought I should share.

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