Market Discussions

Okay, I'm going to make an admin panel so I can see everyone's information, if I can see the numbers on screen it'll be alot easier. I would like to state that any trade information I come across will not be disclosed to anyone, and I will not use it for my own personal gain.

I'll completely overhaul the stock/profit system this weekend (rest of today + tomorrow). Updates to come shortly.

I have tweaked some of the stock/profit functions a bit (basically if there's no stock dont grab taxes and apply to the "profit" like I was doing. It opens up the possibility of people getting that extra 2% of profit buying on another character and selling on one being tracked, but that'll have to do. If that 2% makes a huge difference there's another problem going on.

I have removed all my stats/history, and will see how a fresh import does on my end. I may remove everyone's if this works, just to get everyone on the same page.

EDIT: Some cron issues have been fixed. I have a cron table now, which gives me more information about the duration of each cron, and if there is a cron process in progress already, it wont start again.

I'll continue to monitor it, so we dont get any more insane cpu spikes.

I'm loving the Authkey for my investor reports. It makes me feel safe. It's abit like API keys, I can always delete them, incase I regret giving someone the authkey!

Great job!

I have an update!

I finished up the market view module, giving you some simple statistics (for now) of items. Check it out here, or navigate to it from the Market menu tab.

Some examples:

• TIB Field Generator ;)
• Platinum Technite - With some statistics
• PLEX

Also added an option to remove orders from your order screen. Sometimes, the API decides not to return some expired orders, so my script doesn't see the state of it change and does not change my database. I'll be looking into that more down the road.

As always, please post here with any bugs/errors, or convo/evemail me ingame. You can also contact me via jeronica@tackledinbelt.com.

Thanks for the support!

I've got some updates that I feel warrant a post/bump.

First, I'd like to start with exclaiming how awesome twitter's bootstrap plugins are! That jquery plugin is revolutionary :P.
Now that I've gotten that out of the way, I've added some visual aspects to the site (using bootstrap). These include: a more uniform looking submit button (that actually displays correctly in IE), mini icons that replace/add to some text in places, and notification system using notification bubbles.

What's New?

• Can send system wide notices/updates/quicktips
• Can send individual users notifications
• Using my orders module, I can add notifications of completed/expired orders.
• Market View has gotten a visual update, integrating tabbed view so the information isn't just a wall of text. This should also allow for more information to be cleanly displayed on the screen.
• Fixed some issues, with the api keys. At random, some API keys had a space at the end resulting in the api pull from CCP failing, due to the space. Integrated a innovative white_space removal function to handle that issue.

In the works:

• Notifications page. Think of the facebook notification page, it will be similar, but not exact (partly because I don't have a facebook account, and have the domain blocked via router).
• Expand notifications. I made the system pretty scalable, so anything I desire should be easily integrated.

I will be accepting feature requests as of now, and will start pushing myself to implement them quickly.
After all the feature requests that have been made has been looked into/implemented, I'll be releasing the site for public use and will start marketing.

Thanks for the support!
-Jeronica

I've been having alot of issues with the current layout with parsing information. I just finished reskinning the site, and will be merging that code into the live server tonight.

The only current bug at the moment, is the inability to click into market groups in the market browser. That's currently #1 on my list to fix. You can, however, click on an item on your orders page, and it will take you to the market view. The search box also works as intended as well.

EDIT:
I have now merged the two codes. I have inserted a bug into the feedback area.

Please have a look around on your individual user accounts for any errors, and use the feedback button if you find any!

I just tried to create an account and login. I used your link to generate an API. I get the following error:



Severity: Warning

Message: file_get_contents(https://api.eveonline.com/account/Characters.xml.aspx?keyID=1428309&vCode= KG5wdsq4z6OO8gzLGoUFihLWZvJdnRU0QdpuFE40HfVa9OQit2piWWmyh4jCtBDrsqrkf6pYSwKp93Fx2jUr2pTlnQ7oWEAOExOYta): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request

Filename: models/charactersmodel.php

Line Number: 38

Any advice?

Try generating an API by filing in the access mask with 6295553. I put your API in EVEMon and it returns Authentication Failure. Either you entered the wrong username/password OR your API has expired. The link on Market Mogul works fine, I just tested it. It's something on your end. Try just going to https://support.eveonline.com/api/Key/CreatePredefined/6295553

The API pulls/cronjobs are being very finicky at the moment. I'm not sure if it's because of the influx of new users with empty characters (shouldn't be, since I only pull characters), or maybe the corrupt data somewhere.

In any case, I'm going to re-code the API module cleanly, using my knew knowledge of this framework, and should be done definitely by this weekend. I know some people have gotten their apis to go through, if its going through for you congrats! :P

Sorry for the issues, they came out of no-where.
Jer

I have it working now, but I was wondering how often it pulls the API from CCP? It seems that my transactions are always many many hours out of date. Is there a way to add a button that you could press to refresh the API pull?

@Johnathan
It activates a cronjob every 15minutes that pulls api for any characters with a cache that's expired. You can see when your cache expires in your character's management page.

@Halfarse
I'll see what I can do about this, and let you know what I find out!