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Copyright (C) 2009  Maudigan



This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 

modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as 

published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of 

the License, or (at your option) any later version.



This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of  

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the 

GNU General Public License for more details.



You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public 

License along with this program; if not, write to the 



Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.









Installation

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Copy all of the project files to the directory of your choosing. 

Edit the /includes/config.php  file with your database 

information as the minimum settings. Additional settings can be 

altered in the config file to hide portions of the software from 

your users. 





















New Features

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Server Operators:



Configuration changes

Several changes have been made to the formatting of the 

configuration file.  



Support has been added for server that do not have FreeType 

installed. This support will impact the way you set up the 

titlefont variables in the config file. If you have FreeType 

installed the titlefont you choose to use can be found by 

referencing the /fonts directory. If you do NOT have FreeType 

you will need to choose a font from /fontsold. In addition you 

will NOT  be able to choose a font size.



Permissions

In previous versions particular pages could be blocked entirely 

and/or types of characters could be blocked entirely. These two 

concepts have been combined into a permissions matrix. 



Characters are lumped into 4 different user categories, ALL, 

ROLEPLAY, ANON, GM. Each following user category takes precedence

over the previous. An ANON, GM, will be of the user category GM. 

In the config file under each category of user there is a set of 

pages to allow or block for that user type. Placing a 1 will 

block the particular page for that user group. A 0 will allow 

that page.



Character Mover

This build includes a character mover with increased security and

function. To enable it set $blockcharmove to 0 in the config 

file. Available zones should be set under $charmovezones using 

the zones shortname as a key pointing to an array with a key for 

x,y, and z each pointing to a coordinate of where you want the 

characters to be place. For more help with setting character move

zones, or an explanation that makes sense visit the tech support 

forums.



Signatures

This has been included as a method to auto generate a signature 

for use with phpbb1-3. Phpbb currently will only generate an 

<img> tag for a supplied link if it ends with a png, jpg, gif, 

etc. This partially prevents the passing of GET variables, or 

using php generated images as they end with .php. 



To make this function an .htaccess file is included with this 

build. This file will receive an URL where the signatures 

parameters are passed as hyphen delimited subdirectories and the 

extention of the file is a .png. Htaccess will then rewrite this 

to the true location of .php ending signature file, and recode 

the parameters into the normal GET formatting.



Measures have been taken to make this .htaccess dynamic so it 

will function from the various random locations it will be 

installed in. To ensure that it is indeed working correctly 

navigate to the signature builder by clicking its link in the 

top right. If it is functioning correctly the image at the 

bottom of the page will say Error you must specify a 

character., if it is NOT functioning you will see a red X or 

a broken image icon. If this is the case visit the tech support 

forums for help.



Some sections of this dont include much artwork for creating the

signatures, but all the portions of the tool are generated based 

on what images are in the signature builder folders. So if you 

add a background it will automatically show up as available, just

make sure you take care and make them the same size, and that 

they are PNGs. Again, more help with this can be received in the 

tech support forums.

















Users:



Signatures

You can now generate a signature using the Character Browser. 

This signature will be a dynamic image that will automatically 

scale with your character. There is an array of artwork that can 

be selected and combined to form the final image using the 

signature builder. Simply visit the signature builder by clicking

the link in the top right. From there type your characters name 

as a minimum.  You can select the fonts, font colors, drop 

shadows, sub fonts, stats, epics, backgrounds, alpha layers, 

borders, and background colors to create a unique feel. After 

selecting all your options hit the create button and a sample 

image will be generated. 



If this is to be used in a forum you can then copy the code from 

the BBCode box and paste it into your board account. If it is 

to be put into a webpage copy from the HTML box.





Character mover

You can put your login name, and character name in the first two 

boxes. Depending on your server you may also be able to select 

from multiple zones. If you wish to move more than 1 character 

click the [add row] link, and repeat for the next character. 

Once you are finished click move.



Once you have successfully moved your characters you can click 

the Click here to add a bookmark for this move!. This will 

generate a bookmark that will allow you to reactivate that move 

with one click of the bookmark in the future.







Profile Navigation

Some minor changes have been made to navigation. All buttons 

have been removed from the bottom of the inventory window and 

imbedded in a tool bar on the far left of the screen. This 

toolbar will remain up on all of the characters pages. 

Previously it was only viewable from the inventory. The toolbar 

has added 2 buttons. The Move button which will open the 

character mover for this character, and the link button which 

will create a bookmark to that profile. 



In relation to the toolbar changes the bank button has been 

completely removed, and the bank window will remain open now.























Credits

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This project has taken from the original Magelo Clone, EQEditor, 

Allakhazam Clone, phpBB, and other publicly licensed sources. 

Thanks to TheConquistador, Trevius, and Cavedude for helping with

the project.

