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PaulC2K
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Have you logged into the forum yet? That converts the pw to something the site can then read (there was an update to the forum software which modified the way in which the pw is stored, its now considerably more complex and the website uses the complex version) thats the only thing that i can imagine is stopping it.
PaulC2K
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Chris, have you tried the login test i put a link to a few posts back?
Its working for me in both IE6 and FF, dont have Opera installed and obviously cant have IE7 with IE6.
After tonights pre-season test races i'll implement a better rejected login script, should help detect where the faults are coming from.


Quint, same as above, its working for me in both browsers, so im not really sure where the problem is coming from.
Looking at the code, by any chance did you enter nothing for the team & tag values? Im guessing so as theres a loophole there i've just spotted, if you've submitted an entry but one of the 3 boxes is empty then it wont submit it to the db, which is obviously wrong, particularly when there isnt an action performed as a result of it. Thats been removed now, so if you did leave one of those blank give it a whirl now. If you didnt, let me know as it must be something else.
PaulC2K
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yeah, that bas***d
PaulC2K
S3 licensed
If someone will be spectating T1, then that sounds reasonable to me, provided 2 things happen after that.
1) The person who cut is told to abandon that lap and keep clear of those around them who are on a quick lap
2) The person told actually follows those instructions.

Its seemed to me during races people dont give a crap if they cut, they carry on regardless knowing damn well they've ploughed through there. Im all in favour of a more forceful method of teaching people to learn how to get round a track, and if that means people teleport to spectator then thats fine by me. I spent time learning how to get round the track without cutting, but some just turn into the corner and keep it nailed down regardless. Even when ive lost control of the car its not that hard to keep it within the track limits, you use the other pedal, it helps slow you down so you dont need to break the rules.
PaulC2K
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Quote from SpikeyMarcoD :I seem to be #99 as well and i am supposed to carry #111 and it says i am a privateer?

Done, and i've fixed Celtic again, the db was set to store a 2 digit value, which is how the site would have been if Dru hadnt allowed 3 digits in this series

Quote from Bean0 :Reactivate me dagnammit !!!!

Done, not sure why you've been deactivated

Quote from Scrabby :can i book myself also in? Or can i only book in when im in the league for sure?

If your not already booked in as of ~2 weeks ago, then booking in has already closed for the time being.
There *may* be vacancies if people drop out, but the series runs on 50 people, 30 of which have to qualify for the last 10 places on the grid, 20 who book their place based on the previous weeks results. So if people drop out, you might be able to join the qualification event before each round, but thats not my call to make and im not sure if additional people will be allowed in, its not like theres a shortage (30 people fighting for 10 places).
PaulC2K
S3 licensed
http://www.lfsevents.net/testi ... K&try_password=blabla
Change the username & password to your own details and it should confirm that the pw is correct, your pw is definately in the correct format so the website should accept it just fine.

The username is also case sensitive (StableX is what i have in the forum db).
Are you getting any error messages when trying to log in, or is it just loading the exact same page up? I could do with modifying the way it rejects the login instead of it reloading the same page have it go to the main login page with a reason for it failing etc.

IE/FF?

One thing i do know is your account on the site db hasnt been created, that would be done once you've logged in the first time, so its never successfully validated your information whether its right or wrong.
PaulC2K
S3 licensed
done, your #100 now
PaulC2K
S3 licensed
okay.... after a lot of... doing nothing, its working.
Its good fun this coding lark isnt it!

realised that moments after the last post, only i didnt click 'submit' im slow, but im not 2hrs slow
PaulC2K
S3 licensed
:nods with confused look on face type smilie: if only that existed
Im using modified php.ini and .htaccess files in order to override a couple of security features, however i assumed those would still work when it came to IE reading them, however it seems its not the case.

The error you mentioned is gone, i got rid of it by telling it the db details just before it went to fetch info, every page requests the mysql details for the website, however with the introduction of the forum based login i have to give it seperate db details so it can access that, i can only assume somehow it had the forum details when it came to that section of the page, not the site details.
Eitherway, that doesnt resolve the issue of the page not reading the php instructions the same as it does in Firefox. Im having a look using IE6.0 so i'll keep playing with things to make sure that every peice of info is being read, its requesting info in seperate files along the way so maybe one peice isnt being read and thats stopping IE from working properly.


I've just tried running i script i'd done a while back just to do the pw comparison for the login, and its working fine in IE with my un/pw so it is capable of validating the pw but something somewhere along the way isnt working as it is on FF.
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PaulC2K
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Hmmm, i've just discovered something... IE sucks ass!!
How the hell is the website working fine in FF and yet not in IE.

Im guessing your using IE because im getting the same error after trying to log in with both the accounts ive setup this last week, both work fine in Firefox.

I'll have a look at everything, visually i can understand irregularities between the browsers, but the php doesnt care what its read in, what it outputs to be displayed needs to be compatable, but the inner working is the same.
PaulC2K
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Quote from Quint999 :Paul

do i need to do anything else ? , i still cant login to the booking in site & not sure from your previous post whether your still going to use this system , or its abandoned for the moment.

my name is still down on the original sign in thread here, is that enough ?

thanks

Can you log into the forum? If you can do that successfully, then head to the site and try again, chances are if you can get into the forum you can THEN get into the site even when you couldnt get in earlier.

Its a modification being made to how your password is stored, the forum requires this and so it does all the conversion, if the forum hasnt converted it then unfortunately the site cant understand it.

This applies to everyone that it hasnt worked for as of yet, head to the forum, log in, log out if you wish, but then go back to the site and give it another go.
Anyone having problems logging in and/or booking in please let me know, just so im not under the impression everyone is getting in fine.


The error message almost certainly came from an incorrect URL, it probably didnt have the series/season information to know which set of entrants you were looking for. The page you got there from must have either not had that info or its lost it when giving a link... not sure, i'll have a dig round.

As for the actual series/booking in, everyone is still officially confirmed as being in the series, this site just requires everyone to register in and then submit themselves to the series so that this website can calculate and display everyones points rather than Dru or whoever sitting infront of Excel adding up the points (only for me to correct them for 3 of the 4 rounds :razz etc. Its no more than an additional tool to help make life easier for series organisers.



James:
Anyone that isnt in a team grouping gets lumped with 'Privateer' it makes no difference there what team details you've submitted, IIRC only 1 page currently displays that, and its an admin page where the admin creates a team group. 'Mercury Old Gits' is made up of 2 users, Viper & PaulC2K, thats how the constructor points are calculated, it allows the admin to form a solid grouping of a team, rather than expecting them to be capable of entering the identical details and then having the site search for others with the same 'teamname' value in the db etc.
I know i've created all the teams for either the pre-season or the proper season, some drivers are associated with the teams they'll be racing under, some arent and it looks like you arent *ATM*.

Maybe defaulting drivers to 'privateer' isnt the right decision, perhaps 'NYA' or similar would be better, help avoid confusion for those who shall be in a team but are displayed as driving solo. The series organiser can then make people privateer or create the team group 'Team A' and put that person into it etc.
PaulC2K
S3 licensed
The stickies say its closed, as it has for the last 10 days or so.
Whether you can join the test sessions on Thursday comes down to whether there is room in there after the signed up people are all there, its first come first served for the signed up folk, 32 slots, 50 signed up, so you'll only get in assuming a significant number of people dont show up which is reasonably likely based on the last few test dates but as this is the last one before the series and will probably be run like a proper round it may be busier than usual.
Turn up if your available, but you'd only get in if theres room after registered folk are in.
PaulC2K
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Its really for those already signed up to the series, which is now locked down.
If there is room on Thursday then i see no reason why you couldnt join in as long as your reasonably prepared and dont cause incidents because of lack or practice in this new class.

Theres 50 people signed up, so theres the possibility it'll be full, and the server is usually passworded once its begun, but to answer your question with zero authority, you should be fine to join in this last test race if theres room.
PaulC2K
S3 licensed
Just a quick update, i've had to PM the person that helped mewith the updating of the user login script last week.
There was an update to the phpBB3 forum about 2 weeks ago, one of the features was to completely redo the way the password is stored, it involves encrypting the value you originally gave it, adds the random 16-char value on the end (called 'salt') and then it encrypts that.

The website can *read* the new method of checking a password, however it was never generating an MD5+salt password. So its trying to compare a salted pw with an unsalted one, meaning you aint getting in.

People should be able to log into the forum, that will see your unsalted password, it'll convert it for you and then you *should* be able to log into the site.
Website registration is disabled for now, its back to forum only for the time being.

As i mentioned in the previous post, i'd originally sorted out the login system then 24hrs later i installed the phpbb3 update and it completely wrecked everything i'd done, unfortunately it never occured to me that the registration side was still building accounts in the old manner, the forum can read them and convert them, but the site cant understand it at all.


dawesdust_12:
As mentioned last night, the standings require manual work to the database to calculate your info.
When the results are generated from the MPR file it gets the first LFSW Username, checks the list of people registered to that season and gets the User_id for them. That along with the results all goes into the database.

The MPR file was parsed about 5 days ago, only I was registered to the test series, so it could only get my user_id and assign it to all my results. All other results have no user_id.
To fix this i have to go to every result, end throw in your user_id, something i cant do until you've registered on the site, and then run a calculation script for every round. This is something im doing on a daily basis.

Typically if you werent signed up for an event, you wouldnt have been in the race, so when a series starts it'll have all the drivers signed up, then when the parsing is done its all done automatically, just as it will be on Thursday hopefully, but because ive parsed when theres only 1 person signed up theres huge gaps. The site is only live for registration, the rest is still being worked on for roughly 8hrs a day.
PaulC2K
S3 licensed
Sorry about that Chris, it was exactly the same problem as before, this time it was the 'else' section which wasnt closed, last time it was the 'if' bit before it

I created a test account just to try a couple of things:
"You account has been activated, you can now log in"
Seems to have worked, but its become apparent my spelling is about as good as my coding


In saying that, its still not allowing a login, gimmi a few moments and i'll get it fixed, i know what the problem is (theres actually 2 problems) which i spotted while trying to sort our Psymonhilly's account, its not creating a 2nd variable to complicate the encryption method, so i need to give all forum accounts a random 16-character 'salt' code, and make sure it knows to salt the password when checking it. I dont know what 'salt' is specificly, but im getting fed up of it, already wasted 4 days last week with this!!
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PaulC2K
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Quote from Cawwa :Paul ... don't you think your point have gone through by now? Do you really need to spend 5 pages of e-pollution to repeat the same argument over and over again?

Frankly im sick of the same misleading posts by the admins, claiming one thing when knowing its absolute BS. I was told to refrain from calling Hoellsen a liar, im betting i can find 4 cases of blatent lies in this thread alone. I wont have someone lie about me, making my complaints about his incompetence to do things correctly even when its been pointed out to him, and instead using other incidents to mask his own errors or pretending it never happened.

Quote from traxxion :In my opinion threads like this could better be locked after the first post and communication / appeals should be via pm. A bit more respect for the admins who are "wasting" their spare time to give us a good racing series would be appreciated I think.

I admin for the BOTT series, its not 6hrs, but if ive made a mistake im not so ignorant that i just pretend it didnt happen, i accept it was my fault and appologise to those it inconvenienced. Its called accepting responsibility. Have i said their time isnt appreciated? no.
As for 'a bit more respect' The worst ive said is he's a liar, and i can back that up very easily thanks to this thread alone. But how about some respect for the people he's wronged? Is that too much to ask for?? Apparently.

Quote from banshee56 :It means that we acknowledge that there may have been some mistakes made, but we have faith in the admins to correct the ones they can, and learn from the ones they can't. It also means that you should move on and quit your childish whining, because it really is getting old.

Who says they're mistakes?? They never happened apparently, mistakes are things that unintentionally happen, 12hrs notice of a problem, updating original post after the warnings were first made shows he wasnt AWOL for those 12hrs, he was in that thread, one which was already questioning a penalty he then overturned but didnt bother reading the rest of the 2nd post.

Quote from Razvan :This is partially the admins fault, for letting a thread like this, go on even 2 days after the race has ended.

IMO, the race ended, penalties were given, 24hrs have passed since the race, thread closed. Thus you can prevent issues reappearing over and over again, and constant debate. Because obviously Paul is on a mission to argue with everyone about everything. And by god, does that man, have a whole lot of time on his hands, i mean sheesh, he's writing novels.

Yeah, i want to waste my time arguing with people like you with nothing to really add, apparently your fine with the incompetence running this series, so shove of and be happy its still thriving because people like yourself dont question why wrong decisions are being made and calls for them to be checked are going ignored.


MoE's like a bloody religion, nobody dare can question things that just dont make sense, the holy one says its so, so it must be.
F*ck off, just cos someone says 2+2 = 382 doesnt make it true, if you can justify how 2+2 = 382 then fine, but quoting science fiction and saying it must be 382 just makes you an idiot. If you want to be an MoE drone incapable of thinking freely for yourself, be that way, but dont tell me i cant question some of the stupidity and lies you all come up with rather than looking and seeing the truth.

As ive said all along, mistakes are made, but just ignoring them and pretending they'll go away and people wont notice if you dont answer your your mistakes is just plain wrong, a 3 year old kid has better manners.
PaulC2K
S3 licensed
Quote from Bean0 :Just tried registering...It's not having it...

registration error code

Then from clicking link in email...
Sorry about that, the site registration method was trying to open the file i'd deleted which i'd mentioned earlier, i've recreated it but it was under a slightly different name.

user activation error code


Checked that, spotted an open ending 'if' comment which went straight into 'else' without actually ending the 'if' first.
Not sure how that was done, im certain i did that when creating it, fixed it and uploaded it but unless i accidently hit undo at some point its obviously gone missing again.

Quote from Psymonhilly :i've noticed that some ppl have managed to book-in to the leagues.
ive not got that far yet as the booking-in comes up with a blank screen with no options to help me enter details.
how did other ppl manage it ? or is it just me
thx

Damn, thats down to a db issue i never got round to completing, everyone's access level is '0' as default when the database was created, now the default is '1' but the 405 account already created stay at '0' meaning everyone got no access. I've done page 1, 3, 7 & 8, there were quite a few people who wouldnt have access, inc bawbag, bio, pecker, you, jakg even faster111!! your all done now (your page 3, 30 users per page) and i'll get 2/4/6 done in a moment

[edit] page 2 & 4 done, 6 was already done [/edit]
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PaulC2K
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Nightfly, you needed to enter your real name & lfsname into the 'missing data' screen when you logged in, if you leave that blank then its blank information that gets submitted when you register to a series. I can only tell its you because it knows your user_id, looks like that page needs extra checks before allowing you to submit an application.

Results page is working (its a different url im working on) although it looks odd while half the results arent assigned to specific people (it lists username, which is better than nothing i guess) and the people sign-up upto nightfly will notice they have points in the standings now
1 small problem i have atm, any none finishers seem to be omitted from the results, not sure why that is, but they'll have to be manually entered for the time being
PaulC2K
S3 licensed
Psymonhilly:
If your not in a team, you can leave it blank, currently anyone that isnt in a constructor/team grouping gets listed as being 'privateer' which would be what you'd be entered as in this series.


I *think* im bug-free now, everyone should be able to log in just fine, if you get an error message after logging in that mentions not being able to modify headers, let me know, ive deleted my testing account and logged in to see if it errors for me, it didnt but i dont quite understand what i changed that may have solved it.

If theres any errors found, or anything ive missed please let me know.
Just so everyone knows, when you register to the series the points you've picked up at the past rounds wont automatically be assigned to you, theres a calculation script that needs to be run, for each round, that goes through the list of entrants for the series and looks in the results and gives them the points based on whatever the series admin has set for that specific type of round.
So, the reason you wont have any points is because when the calculations were done your name wasnt in the list of entrants. I'll run the script every now and then just to check its working, but if you see other names in the list have been added and received points yet you've still got none, let me know straight away.

Im currently working on the page to display the round results, used to work before i implemented the MPR parser, theres a lot of new things added in the last week which is why a few things arent working, they used to for the old versions and i've prioritised my workload to get you guys in and able to register, the rest i can still work on with the 10 days or so we have till Rnd1 when it really needs to work.

[edit] Just remembered there a little more to it than just running the calculation script, all the user_id's need assigning to the already created race results, when its parsing it gets that info then, i need to create an db updater that just updates the existing results if need be.[/edit]
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PaulC2K
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Quick post, top gear starting....

The site is now accepting forum accounts, and creating LFSEvents entries.
Theres an error as soon as its logged you in, i'll fix that, pressing F5 will remove it its the 'if we dont have your real name' redirect peice of code trying to do something it cant (apparently!).

Im going to go through the site from a new accounts point of view, i can see a couple of odd errors, i'll check into those and get them fixed

Dont book yourself into any series though, *once logged in* please visit:
http://www.lfsevents.net/booking_in/missing_data.php
Then you should be able to add your name and team details, and then book yourself in etc.
PaulC2K
S3 licensed
Cr@p, my mistake, i searched for Looney and it came back with nothing, was getting my replies mixed up.
The site automatically logs you out after about 30min of inactivity on the events site, is it possible this could have happened? I know its unlikely, but i'll check thats not wrong.


incidently, it seems Mr Hoiting has registered to the Baby-R series (proper one) and he would have done so via forum account login, now im totally confused
it also took all his info correctly and threw it into the relevent table, so it adds to the possibility that you'd accidently been logged out and without a login check on those pages your application was processed without you actually being logged in.
As i say, could be wrong, i just know it could be a reason for these results.
PaulC2K
S3 licensed
I've just realised where the problem comes from, it ties in with the fact that the old registration page was still on the site directing everyone to the forum to register, and i think i modified the login process because i'd solved the problems i was having with people registering via the website and the data going into the forum db from the site. Unfortunately it looks like i deleted the script (hdd and on the server, one of the few times i'd go and delete no longer needed files, typical!) there doesnt appear to be anything in place to take a forum account and then create an entry in the events db for it. Sorry about that.

Anyone that wants to can head to the forum and im pretty sure you can delete your account from the UCP area, if not give me a shout and i'll delete it myself and then you can recreate the account via the sites registration page which adds to both db's at the same time.
Anyone not fussed, i should have that script wrote in about an hour or so.
PaulC2K
S3 licensed
Looney: Should be fixed now, you were still in the COPPA group, when removing the activation code from your entry in the db i'd moved you from group #6 to #5 which everyone else were in, for some reason when i logged into the forum admin area it still had you in the COPPA Registered group, im guessing all the forum areas are hidden to that group, i guess i should do something about that, not really needed to though.

TFalke:
Thats a dead link, as mentioned earlier i think there may be one or 2. The page doesnt exist, on my HDD or the servers.

For the Entry list, i suspect thats because you havent given it your firstname, surname & lfsname? Ive just looked, and you dont have an entry in the events database, so your entrant details for that group are nameless, it'll require manual editting of the db which i'll do at a suitable time. I dont quite understand how you've managed to book yourself in without being logged in, theres actually 1 or 2 pages which check for ANY validation, the whole site is completely open if you know the URLs to visit, its not something im too concerned about at this time, but i might have to go into each page and put the 1-2 line of code in each document incase it causes similar mistakes. Its just so much easier for me to work on a site that doesnt require logging in while nobody but me knows about it etc.
PaulC2K
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Quote from The General Lee :Erm...I'm sure I clicked I was born "On or after 27 Oct 1994" but it still done the COPPA thing.


Could you activate me or something please mate.

Username: Looney

Edit: What a f'ing doughnut! - It's not my fault, I was on a train/black cab for 12 hours last night >.< Didn't get home till 3am...long story.

Give it a try now, ive activated the account i think.

Quote from StableX :got this today Paul.....



It showed just above where it lists the events

Right, i'll get onto that along with the already growing list of problems
PaulC2K
S3 licensed
I also find it ironic that people suddenly appear from the woodwork to say they would rather there be less chat about blatent ignoring of rules and the allowance of it by the race admins, than there are people who care about teams receiving the correct punishment for any rules they have broken.

Exactly what does that say about you all!??
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