Your webhost is down T_T

I'm trying to add an API key via admin.php and get "Error: String could not be parsed as XML"
I also can't seem to register user accounts.

What did/didn't I do to cause this?

Using 5.1.5

This can mean a few things but if you can't register user accounts it sounds like you perhaps don't match one of the install requirements.

Things to check:

1. Do you have curl installed
2. Register_globals is off.
3. Try someone's API key even if it's not a ceo/director key as it should still pull in the characters
4. Make sure you are running PHP 5.1.2+

You can check some of this information by running a phptest file which is explained nicely here: http://www.kirupa.com/web/testphp.htm

If you want I can also look at it directly with you if you wish to message me.

-FG

1. Got curl.
2. It's PHP 5 so register_globals is off by default
3. Tried 5 different api keys with the same result
4. PHP Version 5.2.14

What's next?

Edit: It gets the same error trying to update alliance and sov data.

I am getting an error when I try to run my crontabs on my host:

[code]
Fatal error: Call to undefined function adonewconnection() in /datasan/www/vhosts/lbbrf.com/httpdocs/pos/includes/dbfunctions.php
[/code]

PHP Version: 5.2.14

I found a closed item with this same error but the notes provided when closing it were not informative at all ;)

Could you provide the information on how you resolved this please?

http://code.google.com/p/pos-tracker-eve/issues/detail?id=26&can=1&q=adonewconnection#makechanges

Thank you.

Might just be me, but the sort criteria seems to be broken and always defaults to system name, regardless of what I set in user panel.

I just tried it with no issues at all. So what you can do if you have direct access to the DB is see if the user settings are updating.

In the DB open up pos3_user and look at the user_track settings. If at 0 then no settings have been set and it's still on default. If there's something in there it goes like this

amount of towers displayed (dot) sort selection in numeric form

-FG

A heads up though, anyone with a ' in their name or corp name is still unable to use the pos tracker. If you are affected by this, I recommend you use a different character in the same corp with the rights. And don't allow anyone in named "Imaspy' drop tables;".

mysql> select user_track from pos6_user;
+------------+
| user_track |
+------------+
| 10.1 |
+------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Changing the sort method seems to update the database, but the pos tracker page isn't affected by it.

Hey! I've now brought it to run after I have changed my hosting provider.

One question I still have however:
Is the POS API data automatically fetched, or do I have to click the update button once in a while?

Best regards,
Xathros

Does clicking the links at the top sort correctly? It's using a very basic way to do sorting so I'm not exactly sure where it could be failing for you.

-FG

We are also having the problem of it not remembering what sorting you want to do. However, we have over come this with a bookmark: https://URL/track.php?sd=100&sb=1

This sets it to 100 and sorts on status. I'm a little disappointed the 'update' column went away, but over all, pretty happy.

What sort selection do you select?

I can't duplicate this issue at all lol. What version are you both on also?

Does it save tower amounts or is that defaulting also?

Yeah the updating the user settings doesnt update the values stored in the current session. I've been telling my guys to just logout and back in when changing a user setting then the new value is used.

I've only had a quick look at it so far but it looks like an easy fix, I plan to fix it on the PRAX instance this weekend, when I do I'll send you the patch FG.

Well actually just had another look, fix is in http://code.google.com/p/pos-tracker-eve/issues/detail?id=40

Does this use a database abstraction layer that supports sqlite?

I'd rather load this locally, but I'm conscientious of my system resources. A full MySQL database for POS tracking seems a bit heavy.

Edit: By the way, this seems very useful. Thanks!

some Pictures would be nice ;)

Hi Frozen Guardian,

i have some questions about installing your POS-Tracker.
While uploading the package with my crappy internet, i noticed the many images and sql files.

We are already running another EvE-Tool, a production manager written by me, and so we already have some Static DataDump tables on our webserver.

How can I change the POS-Tracker, so i uses the other Tables as well, or do I have to use duplicate tables?

Mikokoel

Edit:
another thing, is the whole "Template" thing still working? Can i change the template files so that i can match the design to our forum and production tool?

Sounds like maybe Date extension isn't active which is unusual since its in the PHP core.

Depends on you web host but usually it'll require them making change. I'd contact tech support and report the problem it probably was an oversight on their part since it's a extension almost everyone would use which is why it was made part of the core for PHP.

Thanks for the quick replies. This is what they said. They also created a phpinfo script on my site.

You can set a specific date.timezone value in PHP using the following option which should be added to your local php.ini file:

And this is what shows under date for phpinfo


date/time supportenabled
"Olson" Timezone Database Version2010.9
Timezone Databaseinternal
Default timezoneAmerica/Chicago

Hi again. All three of us talked about this issue a year ago but no solution was found because it sounded like it was your host. Still to this date I haven't heard anyone with this error nor can I seem to find a reason to why it would happen. But I am quite curious as to why so can you tell me who your hosting provider is?

Wait a second. Are your crons using PHP5? The function was introduced in PHP version 5.1 and so it really sounds like you're running PHP4 with your cron jobs or a really old PHP 5 version.

-FG

Hi FG =) I'm with siteground.


I would think it would be cron php5.. I inserted php5 before the cron script to see if that'll help. I can PM you the link to my phpinfo if you'll like.

Thanks so much for all the help!! =)

Hello,

I'm trying to install 5.1.6 that uses the new API keys, but I can't seem to get any of my keys to import. It keeps saying that it's not a valid XML file to parse.

I've made a non-expiring corp key with the 4 listed necessities. I've turned on debug but it provides no information concerning the API call or XML data received.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

Trying #2. Stupid forums bitched about invalid HTML. Seriously CCP thanks for destroying my post. Now to remember what I typed.

It looks like there are other siteground users who come across this same error.

Things to try(note if #2 doesn't work, remove it before trying #3):

1. Make sure your cron job has this in front: /usr/local/bin/php5

2. Put the following right after ?php in class.pos.php

function date_default_timezone_set($dummy) {
// do nothing
}

if you get an error, tryin putting in further down and see what happens.

3. Replace date_default_timezone_set('UTC'); with putenv("TZ=UTC"); in class.pos.php and see what happens.

My main concern is that the php versions are running in different versions and so what may work in cron may not work in the normal POS tracker. This is mainly specific to #2.

Best of luck to you, please let me know what happens because 95% of the time no one does. So maybe by adding this line the chance is increased.

-FG

For #2

When trying to access the postracker website. I get an error right away

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare date_default_timezone_set() in /home/***/public_html/postracker/includes/class.pos.php on line 5

If I move it downer, the same error appears.

For #3

I replaced the 2 date_default_timezone_set("GMT"); with putenv("TZ=UTC"); in class.pos.php and get the following message when the cron runs

# $Id: poscron.sh 81 2010-08-12 02:49:35Z frozenice2525 $
cd /home/****/public_html/postracker
/usr/local/bin/php5 cron_updatepos.php


It seems the problem is harder then I thought =P. Thanks so much for all your help =) I'll just update manually so I don't take up more of your time xD

For #2: That's good in a sense at your install is really running at something past PHP 5.1 lol.

For #3: Try just commenting out the entire date_default.... with two slashes in front // . What do you have in the line for your cron job exactly(its okay to exclude your server address/personal details) and is this in cPanel I'm guessing?

We'll try another thing or two left and then maybe just manual for the rest of the POS tracker's life if we can't figure it out. :P

-FG

Yes I'm using cpanel. This is my cron job.

/usr/local/bin/php5 /home/****/public_html/postracker/poscron.sh

So even commenting the entire date_default, I can that error.


# $Id: poscron.sh 81 2010-08-12 02:49:35Z frozenice2525 $
cd /home/***/public_html/postracker
/usr/local/bin/php5 cron_updatepos.php

[quote]Edit the .sh file and remove the 2nd and 3rd line. So you're left with
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/php5 cron_updatepos.php

Also try and replace
#!/bin/sh

with

#!/bin/bash

. It looks like from the googles and from what we've seen with the last error that this maybe a special setup for some unknown reason. .sh should call the default interpreter however not sure exactly what that is on your host. I tried asking them, they wouldn't tell me lol. Its just odd though that the information you get back is just whats in the file. It's like it doesn't understand what it's seeing. However I am no shell expert so I could be completely off on this.

Another suggestion though that may just work the best and what one other person used.

wget -O - -q http://hispostrackerdomain.com/cron_updatepos.php >/dev/null

Have something like that for a cron job just may work out for you.

-FG

I'd like to take credit for the wget command but I can't lol. Great to hear it works though!

Bluehost should work fine.

I use 1and1 (not as nice but cheap) and Lunarpages(my love). Otherwise I've seen people host it on various others(dreamhost, rackspace, hostgator) with no issues except Moo Cow hosting or w/e they are called. They got a really funky setup too and their admins are dumb unfortunately as it seems like a decent host.

-FG

BTW, I noticed a math error, not sure where it was coming from, but I suspect it might be the charters I'm using. As some of you may know, Goonswarm's war on ice has forced me to manage some high sec towers, and I'm getting the wrong figures on towers there. In particular, small towers are showing needing 27,511 m^3 of stuff. I of course did not grab a debug before doing the work at hand.

If anyone else sees this on their instance, please let this thread know.

PS. Sorry Gallente tower owners.

http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=3029

All of this might be moot as everything is going to fuel blocks, so we'd need major changes to the system. It's all being hammered out still as well. I'd recommend everyone go read up on it.

I have no idea how we're going to sort out the 'half and half' thing with the number of towers we have.

Thanks for making this POS Tracker \o/

ya tnx



Then are you going to rewrite Tracker for new pos fuel system?

Hi, please include an option to calculate what is needed to build the required amount of fuel block at perfect or optimal ME.
Thanks !

Hi, please include an option to calculate what is needed to build the required amount of fuel block at perfect or optimal ME.
Thanks !

snip ...lots of number...

I'm not saying I don't know what these number are, I'm saying I want the tool to tell me I need x amount of minmatar block and y amount of amar block to fuel everything for the specified number of days which break down to Z number of material needed to build these rounded up block number so I don't have to do all the math myself of how much of each material I need to fuel all the tower, like the tool actually does it create you a shopping list (totals fuel for all tower). So the buyer goes and buy all that is required and bring it for the manufacturer who build the specified amount of block and the fuel technician moves these block into each tower. Easing the life of everyone.

Great, keep up the good job, as long as we have perfect ME we would be happy.

/rant on
Maybe you should start reading what I wrote just before your first post...

oh wait, sorry I forgot you are a member of goons and that's a prerequisite
/rant off

Good news, they announced the date on the energon cube cut over.

Bad news, it's Jan 24th. So a month and a half.

Here's hoping you are still procrastinating 4 days before original timeline.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=44269

Ohh well, expect the fuel block patch probably the week/weekend before January 24th. Gives me more time though so I'll probably add in some additional fixes or updates too. This may turn out to be one hell of a patch.

...or I'll wait till the 23rd...before working on it some more. bwhahaah :P

I'd recommend patching the fuel block detection code soon, as they might just double the size of pos's, and so the number of fuel blocks might get to be important. Make it an uncomplicated patch, I guess. Then when it starts burning cubes, that's an entirely different ball of wax. `8r/

Good luck man. The API is a pain in the ass.

Another quick thing:

In track.php at line 104 there is:

$row2 = $posmgmt->GetLastPosUpdate($row['pos_id']);

$row2 never seems to get called before the end of the function nor in the template. I commented this out and nothing seems to have broken and there is no reduced information on the tracking page as far as I can tell, but it is saving on some extra queries to the update_log table. :)

Thanks! Yes I see no use for it either and can't seem to find reason why it existed other than it probably was copy and pasted by someone from view/editpos.

In other news, another forum reply gone due to "sorry we've been ganked." I got to remember to write out my replies elsewhere first and paste them into here.

Frozen Guardian, do you plan to release an update for the fuel block a bit in advance so that we can update our pos tracker installation before the switchover so that we have time to plan with the new fuel block requirement in advance.

Thanks !

Hello

i try the version 5.1.7 :)


When i try my API Code ...

Error Code: 203::Authentication failure. :(

i try IGB and Normal PC Browser

Greetings
Biber

So..... no matter what I do I can't get the moon mining tracking to work. Please help!

Keep up the great work, FG.


BTW, the time out is the major problem our dudes have with the application these days. Just because it takes like an hour to fuel some of our pos's, and it times out in like 10-20 minutes. I'd like to extend that time, but I have not gone through that process yet.

Hi all,

FG, thx for the great app! Took me a while to get it setup on windows/IIS but it's all working now.

Here's the main bugs i ran into (aside from stupid windows stuff)

I was getting some errors when loading our corp's towers into the table because the powergrid and cpu did not have default values.

I just dropped the table and re-created it with default values and it worked great!

I'm new to towers so no idea if there is something specia/funky with my corp's specific installations, so it may be some weird edge case, but either way it was a fairly easy fix.

I do still get one error when trying to import Jobs:

ERROR Failed to Add Job info ; Out of range value for column 'containerID' at row 1



thx again for all the hard work that's gone into this!

Cheers,

Kep

Hi FG, thx for the quick reply.

Looks like i'm using 5.1.6 which i used the full installer from here:

http://iceneko.com/eve/?q=node/4

I notice there is an update to 5.1.7, but I don't see anything for 5.2?

I just did the upgrade to 517, but still the same error. I'll look @ wiping the install and re-doing later today.

where can I find 5.2?

cheers,

kep

Uhh what version, did it work in previous versions, what exactly are you talking about? What page are you on?

5.1.7, on the production page all of the silos show empty.

grrrr stupid forums... just wiped out a big post saying post can't contain HTML and then wiped everything :( :(

Basically, I did a full re-install/setup w/ version 5.2 and I get the exact same errors.

I confirmed that the scripts install the database without any default values for the cpu/powergrid as seen here from install_database.sql:

Are you sure this is installing wrong, and it's not something with our corp towers?

Maybe i'm just not understanding the app...

You mention manual tower setup, i thought the api pulled the towers/etc... ?

Do i have to do something manually to set this up?

I do see now that 5.2 is fuel blocks only, so this is only useful post-24 correct? or to start identifying fuel block needs for when the cutover is made.

Basically i just joined a corp, and want to help out, they have towers, and i offered to look into some automated way to do management of them.

I've never done POS mgmt before, or used any app related, so i'm a complete noob with this :)

5.1.7, on the production page all of the silos show empty.

postracker.pos3_tower_fbstatic' doesn't existSELECT * FROM pos3_tower_fbstatic WHERE pos_race = '4' AND pos_size = '3'

#1146 - Table 'xxxxxxxx_postracker.%prefix%tower_info' doesn't exist

Upgraded from 5.1.7 to 5.2 and having some db issues



When adding 520 upgrade getting the following sql error yet there is a pos3_tower_info db already

DB is there but it uploaded from the sql as "%prefix%tower_fbstatic"

In fact both sql's in the install folder uploaded with %prefix% instead of pos3_. So in other words, I have both a full list of db's with %prefix% and pos3_

Any ideas?

Thanks.


***EDIT***

I got it working but I had to delete the existing tower_info and change %prefix%tower_info to pos3_tower_info and run the api for it to populate and renamed the %prefix%tower_fbstatic to pos3_tower_fbstatic.

I tried installing 5.2.0 full, while the fuel tracking works fine, production doesn't work at all, silos aren't updating...

Hi guys.
Just run update from Version 5.1.7 to 5.2.0 (all went fine) and I cant add an API.
I made one for tracker (with all that is required) and Im geting masg : "Error: String could not be parsed as XML"
Any1 can help?
Thx in advance.

P.S. Im totaly new in this so if posible keet it simple :(

Have you used this before successfully or was this the first time you used the POS Tracker?

No, this was the first time I tried to use it...

why when i get to

http://localhost/pos/install.php?step=5

add api key

Error Code: 203::Authentication failure.

????

I'm using XAMPP so all versions seem fine

Current PHP version: 5.3.1 (Needs to be greater than 5.1.2)
Your CURL Version: 7.19.6
CURL: Yes
SimpleXML: Yes
Hash: Yes
Register_globals: Off
cache/template_c: OK
eveconfig/dbconfig.php: OK

We are unable to allow new characters to use FGV. (Which we have nicknamed 'The Allspark' after the energon cube patch.) It just comes up with a blank list. Also, we get a message of this in the logs:
[21-Feb-2012 14:43:28 UTC] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: mod in /html/index.php on line 38
[21-Feb-2012 14:43:28 UTC] PHP Notice: Undefined index: access in /html/includes/eveclass.php on line 281

I do not know if these are related. But if anyone else has experienced this, let me know.

Getting error when I try to register users.

Could not create user;Incorrect integer value: '' for column 'alliance_id' at row 1

Have tried several API keys and the site is trusted in the IGB. Not sure that matters for this issue.

v5.2.1
MySQL 5.5.25a
PHP 5.3.15
Curl 7.26

I had this issue. I resolved it by creating a corp specific API key on my CEO char.

And that was my first thought as well. I did try that and even created a new one just to make sure. I Actually ahve two different toons that are CEO's. One in an alliance and one that is not and they both do the same thing.

I was able to manually add a user to the DB and log into it. This seems to work ok but I still cannot add a POS or pull down Corp/Alliance updates.

Hi, we're using your pos tracker, and it helps me a lot so far just to see my fuel levels on our many pos's.

I'm tryin to set it up now so I can see the silo levels and I'm just a tad slow I guess as I'm having a problem.

Mind if I ask?
It's a pretty simple question. On the View Pos page when I chose Edit, I add one harvester and one silo.

Then I have these choices. Adding the material type is easy. But then "input/output", not sure about that.
I can easily show the silo as connected to the harvester, but then "linked to" ?

So in this case below my harvester is #13 and the silo is #14.

I assume the Silo is input as the material goes into the silo?
The "linked to" would that be referring to the moon harvester, which would then be linked to Silo 14?


Harvesters/Reactors Arrays

Module Material
Moon Harvesting Array 13

Silo Arrays

Silo Material Input/Output Required/Produced Available Online FULL Connected to: Linked to:
Silo 14 Mercury Output 100 (0.8m3) EMPTY No Moon Harvester Silo 14

Is this correct? If not what should my inputs be please?
I have a feeling I need the "idiots guide" to this please?
Thanks
Clism

There is a way to track the silos. I have written my own tool to manage them.
Silo tool

Just a quick message just to let you guys know to the status of the project (since I've been meaning to) as I don't wish to keep ya out of the loop.

i uploaded all files to server and

"Database initialisation failed"

error pops up when i go to the url

/home/account/public_html/dir/pos/cron_updatepos.php: line 1: ?php: No such file
or directory
/home/account/public_html/dir/pos/cron_updatepos.php: line 2: /bin: is a directory
/home/account/public_html/dir/pos/cron_updatepos.php: line 3: access-logs:
command not found
/home/account/public_html/dir/pos/cron_updatepos.php: line 4: access-logs:
command not found

#!/bin/sh
cd /public_html/pos
php5 cron_updatepos.php
php5 cron_updatejobs.php
php5 cron_mail.php

#!/bin/sh
cd /public_html/pos
php5 cron_updateallianceinfo.php
php5 cron_updatesov.php

Just wanted to drop in and say thanks for developing this! I have it installed on a Linux server running NGINX with PHP-FastCGI and it works great.

I do have one question, though. Is there a config line in one of the PHP scripts or a table in the database where I can change the value used to compute optimal stront level? It looks as if POS Tracker considers roughly 1d 16h to be "optimal", but our own internal policy requires us to stront differently. Is there a way to change this to reflect our own optimal stront level, or is it hard-coded?

Hello.
Installed FGV on new server and trying add char but got error: Error: String could not be parsed as XML
All requirements checked and ok.
Still no solution for this issue?

Could there be an option in Step 4 to install everything? Takes a butthurtload amount of time to do it one-by-one.

Is this Project still alive?

Would be nice if the new reactions could be implemented and would be awesome if it could automatically collect POS Modules (and their Content) from the API and position them at the correct Tower.

Yeah it is but slowly. I did see some more stuff needs to be changed...well actually a lot needs to change in the tracker. But I'm going to keep working at it as I get time and try to get back into EVE more.

Is this Project still alive?

Would be nice if the new reactions could be implemented and would be awesome if it could automatically collect POS Modules (and their Content) from the API and position them at the correct Tower.

Yeah it is but slowly. I did see some more stuff needs to be changed...well actually a lot needs to change in the tracker. But I'm going to keep working at it as I get time and try to get back into EVE more.

Yeah it is but slowly. I did see some more stuff needs to be changed...well actually a lot needs to change in the tracker. But I'm going to keep working at it as I get time and try to get back into EVE more.

Hey Guys,

Since website is down you can download it from here.

http://avatar-hosting.tk/POSTRACKERFGV+Update.zip

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