Pixelmuse
Two issues:
1. It takes a very long time to load (on average 30-60 seconds) whether or not I have the whole guild included.
An internet visitor is not going to sit and stare at a small icon for 30-60+ seconds and wait for a guild's progress status to load. If you navigate away from it and come back, it has to reload again and the whole process repeats.
2. The second issue is the appearance. If you want to keep it to just the one icon then at least make it a bit larger so it fits in a standard module position. IMO removing the icon and writing it out with some back-end options would be awesome if the author is willing to do it. Even being able to include more than one dungeon at a time would be awesome. An example
of what I am talking about can be seen on the eqdkp plus page or just Google wow guild progress module.
Thank you.
Hello Pixelmuse,
thanks for reviewing my extension!
First of all, I'm aware of the loading time, even if it's reduced after the first cache period. I usually suggest to evaluate small groups of players (the ones who represent a group, even 4 or 5 players) because the XML file are big and even if I use SimpleXML as smartly as possible, it's always a file parsing. I may implement a database tracking, but that would increase the 1st time calculations waaaaay longer.
As of the appearance, you're free to change them, it's just a matter of CSS and images (well, maybe some CSS values in the PHP files, but I should easily be able to move them in the stylesheet). To track several raids would mean to duplicate or more the processing time and not useful imho as you can always enable two different modules, one under the other. About the "standard module sizes", I found nothing about it on the joomla website and I'm not aware about such sizes. If only you could link me some advises replying here or using the support email, I'd be glad to change this :)
Bests
Giacomo 'elegos' Furlan
I hope the author finds time to update this as it was awesome when it was working.
This module seemed to be exactly what I was looking for, but I was unable to ever get it to work.
I installed the module and moved it to the top position in cpanel and I cannot seem to add any entries.
I have Search Engine Friendly URLs enabled if this matters.
A great idea but perhaps could use an update. I'll keep checking back.