Realtime auction logger (hourly refresh, may increase)

[SwordNboard]

I'll be doing my best to run this for a while since it seems no one has for a few days. Cheers!

[Landylil]

Do you think they'd give me an IP exception to setup a dedicated computer for this? I have a media pc that I could use to just run the client and update the site. I know I love having access to the site from work, it's helping me learn the economy very quickly.

[tristantio]

Hi Landylil, I doubt it, I know people have had mules parked in EC idling (who did have IP exemptions) buying/selling prior to me making this site, and got in trouble.

You could always ask though - best bet is to just run the uploader while you're genuinely afk and hope a few others do the same (then everyone benefits).

[Landylil]

Are there any special file permissions I need to setup for this to work? Running Windows7 atm. The cmd prompt would open and immediately close on me. I'm assuming it should remain open.

[falkun]

Note for those wishing to utilize this function (and allow the tracker to link items). USE A STANDARD FORMAT.

1) Utilize commas (,) or slashes (/ or \) between items. Hyphens, especially without spaces, do NOT work. Spaces between items also does not work properly.
2) Link the item if possible, spell it correctly otherwise. Else the auction tracker will not reference the appropriate wiki item.
3) Use /auction. /shout & /ooc do not get your sales added to the auction tracker.

I'll update as I notice more examples of failed conversion from stated intentions to actual implementation.

[tristantio]

Hi Falkun, thanks for the advice on the item linking. I could probably adjust so hyphens work properly, but I believe the reason I did not initially was that some item names contain them.

Since none (or extremely few) item names contain a comma (,) or slash (/), I was able to assume that was a breaking point in the /auc log.

The regular expressions I'm using for this break apart can be seen in the eqAuction.js file the site uses.

//Define regexes
var item = new RegExp(/([A-Z][a-z][A-Za-z ':`\-]+?)([^A-Za-z ':`\-])/g);
var add_ = new RegExp(/([a-z])([A-Z])/g);
var sell = new RegExp(/([ ]*?)(Selling|Seller|WTS)([: ]*?)/gi);
var buy = new RegExp(/([ ]*?)(Offering|Buying|WTB)([: ]*?)/gi);
var caps = new RegExp(/( [A-Z][A-Z])/g);
var dash = new RegExp(/[\-\|]+? /g);
var dash2 = new RegExp(/ [\-\|]+?/g);

and applied on the fly as such:

function findItems(target) {
	target = target ? target : '.aul';
	$(target).each(function() {
		var text = $(this).html();
		text = text.replace(add_, '$1, $2');
		text = text.replace(sell, '$1(WTS)$3');
		text = text.replace(buy, '$1(WTB)$3');
		text = text.replace(caps, ', $1');
		text = text.replace(dash, ', ');
		text = text.replace(dash2, ', ');
		text = text.replace(item, '<a href="http://wiki.project1999.org/index.php/$1" alt="$1" class="ii">$1<pre class="itemTT"></pre></a>$2');
		$(this).html(text);
	});
}

[Aqua]

It looks like the server code for this assumes the uploads are coming from Eastern time zone. I uploaded earlier this week and saw that all the ones I did were displayed as 2 hours in the past since I am in Mountain time zone. I'd recommend adding an optional parameter to your upload page that either accepts the current timezone, GMT offset, or timestamp. My recommendation is for the client to provide the current timestamp since that should be easy to do in any OS.

[Randarn]

Trys- my main who i enjoy reselling more than play has joined the band wagon..you'll start seeing a lot more auctions now..i'm strictly a reseller and on often. Just learned about this from a friend...AWESOME program..love the search box...incoming ec updates yall enjoy =p.

[Vega]

Is this toast? Page doesn't seem to load any more for me.

[Randarn]

Site is back up I'll start trying to upload again. For some reason when i turn on the program it makes my eq client window go black..it doesn't freeze the program..my manager says its still running fine...but i can't see anything. ?