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Heya =)

I just created my first Plugin and like to show it to you now.

It is a Sidebar Plugin wich allows you to check a IP-Adress (with specified Port) over a Socket-Connection if it is online. You can also define that maximal Timeout and a Description.
If your Server is online, it shows also the response-time.
With that you can check different kind of server, I use it per example to check if my Gameserver is online

Demo of the Admin-Interface:


Demo of the Sidebar:


So, here you can find it:
www.xeranon.ch/serendipity_plugin_onlinecheck.zip

So, i would be pleased to hear what you think about ot, what can be done in a better way or whatever.

Ps: I hope I'm right here with this

Hi!

That's a quite good effort for a first plugin!

Since you asked for improvements, there are no fundamental ones, but a few minor ones:

1. You can use Umlauts in the lang_de.inc.php files (Ü instead of Ue). You just need to make sure that the lang_de.inc.php in the base directory is saved in ISO-8859-1 / ANSI Format, and the file in the UTF-8 subdirectory in UTF-8 format.

2. It is better to use "<?php" instead of just "<?", because not on all installations "<?" will work, as it depends on a PHP configuration directive.

3. To make sure that your plugin cannot be used outside of the serendipity context, add this in the first PHP line:
The rest of the code is solid and good!

Best regards,
Garvin

Hi Garvin!

Thanks for the Tipps I've made the recommended changes and reuploaded the files (same link as above).

Greez
Roger

So, will we be adding this to SPARTACUS?

Have someone tested it yet? =)

Greez
Roger