Hi InuYasha,<div><br></div><div><i>(Sorry in advance if you've already thought of all this and have made a choice for your own reasons, but someone was asking me about this the other day and I was trying to explain why it's often beneficial to use add-ons with Opensim. I don't want to sound patronizing though!) </i><br>
<div><br></div><div>While I can understand your desire to stick to "core" Opensim, as I understand it, the developers have made a choice to not include many different kinds of features and functions in the core distribution in order to focus on, well, the "core" of what's required to make an Opensim server work. They _expect_ users to use add-on modules to extend the functionality of Opensim, so if you decide to only ever use the core download, you'll always be pretty limited to the basic functions of the server. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I think of it like this: The core Opensim distribution is the frame of a house and it comes with the basic stuff required to provide some shelter, but if you want a nice front door and pretty shutters, you'll need to add those yourself.</div>
<div><br></div><div>(Personally, I think some of the features they've chosen to exclude (or not include) are unfortunate choices since most people create an Opensim world for the purpose of sharing it with others and the core distribution doesn't provide some of the basic features needed to do that - easy account creation, non-ruth starter avatars, a visually appealing welcome screen, etc., I mean who wants a house without a door! But I understand the philosophy behind the choice and am generally so grateful for all their hard work that I figure we shouldn't complain.) ;) </div>
<div><br></div><div>Fortunately, Diva made a really nice front door package for us to use, and with a little tinkering you can figure out how to customize it for your grid without being a hardcore php programmer or web developer. For an example of a custom welcome screen made with Diva Wifi, see <a href="http://ucsim.uc.edu:8002/wifi/welcome.html">http://ucsim.uc.edu:8002/wifi/welcome.html</a> - obviously I created some custom graphics in Photoshop, and I had to edit both the css and html of the default webpage with the module, but I wouldn't consider myself a super web dev.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I highly recommend it, and as far as I know you don't have to run the Diva flavor of Opensim to take advantage of the Diva Wifi module capabilities, or to further the analogy, I'm pretty sure you can use the Diva Wifi front door on the stock Opensim house or with her souped up Opensim house. :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Hope that helps and you can find more information and download links at: <a href="http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Wifi">http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Wifi</a></div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>
<br></div><div>- Chris/Fleep</div><div><br></div><div>Chris M. Collins (SL/OS: Fleep Tuque)</div><div>Center for Simulations & Virtual Environments Research (UCSIM)</div><div>UCIT Instructional & Research Computing</div>
<div>University of Cincinnati</div><div>406A Zimmer Hall</div><div>315 College Drive</div><div>PO BOX 210088</div><div>Cincinnati, OH 45221-0088</div><div><a href="mailto:chris.collins@uc.edu">chris.collins@uc.edu</a></div>
<div>(513) 556-3018</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://ucsim.uc.edu">http://ucsim.uc.edu</a></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 9:15 AM, InuYasha Meiji <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:inuyasha.meiji@gmail.com">inuyasha.meiji@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Wow, that sound great. But, I am a bit of a dummy to php and that
sort of thing. Is there a way to take this info and add a small
window to a web page on my apache server to show how many people are
currently online or maybe even who??<br>
<br>
I am not a php programmer and not sure how to use php to query my
database the way you describe. I am tring to keep my grid using the
root and what is available from <a href="http://opensimulator.org" target="_blank">opensimulator.org</a> and its modules,
without going to Diva or simian, but would like a nice web stats
display on my web site. Anything like this would be great help.<br>
<br>
Thanks all of you for your time, I wish I could show more how much I
appreciate all you have been doing with this project.<br>
InuYasha.<div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 3/3/2012 6:08 AM, Clive Gould wrote:
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<pre>After a number of postings to the OpenSim forums (thanks especially to
Diva and Justin) the fix was to get the standalone simulator to create
and use a presence table, which could be queried.
This was achieved by adding the following three lines to
StandaloneCommon.ini and restarting the simulator:
[PresenceService]
StorageProvider = "OpenSim.Data.MySQL.dll"
ConnectionString = "Data Source=localhost;Database=opensim;User
ID=xxxx;password=yyyy;"
The following SQL query then successfully returned the names of users
currently online:
select a.firstname, a.lastname from opensim.UserAccounts a,
opensim.Presence b where a.principalid = b.userid
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