Petitions Improved

[Lalolyen]

Guys and Gals,

I'm actually starting a php project to improve the petition system. I think we can all agree that the system needs quite a bit of work. Though I'm unable to really manipulate/develop anything inside the source of EQEMU I have developed an idea I think will help outside the client itself.

Here are a few key features:

1. admin/staff access is controlled via EQEMU database (via access levels) or a stand-alone database.
2. A cron will be running to constantly check for new petitions (of course you can customize your cron to check every second or every 30 mins), in the event a new petition is queried, an email will be sent to the staff (We can even go as far as to send out instant messages, pages, cellphone, text messages but not a high priority development issue).
3. Clients can reply to the petitions via a webpage that will use their LS account name as their user name and character as the password (So mini-login users and public servers can take advantage of this).
4. Many other features to be added like, escalations to higher GM's, bugs, etc.

[Lalolyen]

to keep everyone up to speed, the login is done and I have the system pulling from the petitions.

1. So far the features include admin access level control login.
2. The ability to view a list of petitions.
3. The ability to click and see the petition.
4. The ability to delete the petition.
5. THEMEABLE (allowing the header.php navigation.php and footer.php to be customized with any html).

You can see the development here:
http://emu.norrath.info/petitions

I'll be putting up a demo site soonish.

Working on now:
1. Delete, Reply, Modify permissions based upon access levels
2. Integration with PEQ Database Editor and phpBB3 RC 6.

So far the system is using md5 password encoding for a bit more security.

[Lalolyen]

Anyone actually interested in an alpha of this?

[cavedude]

I would certainly be, this looks to be an awesome idea and very helpful.

[gernblan]

Definitely Interested!

I also think this would be a valuable addition to the emu's built-in web management tool.

[Lalolyen]

Ok I'm going to post the alpha this afternoon.

Right now its doing the basics. I will add in the gm replies prob sometime this comming week (mon or tues). Its pretty cool so far though... It is secured by md5 password authentication from any table really, but mine is setup for peq_admin; you can even set it up for your accounts table for eqemu if you are running your own login or just want to set it up so that the accounts are used from there.

Its really flexable, and if you guys have some php knowledge, you'll prob laugh at how simple it really is =)

I'm a believer of making something efficient, to do that keep the code short and sweet, therefore there is a total of... errr 6 files, main index.php, header.php, navigation.php, functions.php, include.php, and footer.php.