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	<title>ETF2L &#8211; Latest activity in &#8220;Pixel Pickup Bot&#8221;</title>
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    	    <title>Reply by adam-skyride</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/community/topic-12949/page-1/?recent=221491#post=221491</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[<i>Quoted from atrox_</i>
		<blockquote>edit: jesus, looking at pminfo.php... that is horrificD:</blockquote>

Whats horrifc about it? 0.o

(fyi, the line where that script is launched is commented out at the moment line 760 in functions.php, comment out the line above (it was an attempt to use multi-processing that didn't work and uncomment the system() call)

<i>Quoted from dotfloat™</i>
		<blockquote>I still don't understand why it connects to the irc server multiple times.</blockquote>

It doesn't, well, sort of. The bot itself only has one login (I did at some point plan to use 3, the code for this is still there but its all commented out and just needs to be deleted really). The reason for the waitbot is that simply using sleep() would stop the bot from replying, and PHP doesn't support multi-threading, so the only viable way to do it is to start another bot which PM's the main bot a key after a period of time.

Its rofl-tastically bad way to do it, but if anyone has any better suggestions I'm welcome to listen. :)

<i>Quoted from Koeitje</i>
		<blockquote>The coding is shit? What a surprise!</blockquote>

To be fair, it probably isn't great, its the firs time i've done anything remote as complicated as this. PHP is a pretty hard language to keep tidy though once you're up into the several thousand lines of code area. Just look at wordpress or phpBB.

<i>Quoted from Jarppa</i>
		<blockquote>There was some mentioning on another bot that makes topic changes
		<blockquote></blockquote>

Ye, this the was commented out code I was referring to. No multi-threading makes it not possibly in PHP (shame it took me 2hrs to work it out &#62;.&#62;)


		<blockquote></blockquote>Some parts of the bot are missing atm, like SQL tables. Also, config.php is fucked up.</blockquote>

I changed config.php to include a lot more information before uploading it, I didn't even test it. The bug Jarppa is refering to is (I believe) simply that a class decleration has a dollar sign at the top:

<code>class $ircinfo</code>

Stupid error on my part, but as I say I didn't test it before uploading. Just delete the dollar sign and it should work.

Anyways, I'm happy to take criticism on my code, I'm not an amazing programmer and don't claim to be so, but please don't just bash me because particular things might make no sense at first. Every unusual method by which anything is done in the bot is so for a reason.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:43:20 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by ilike2spin</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/community/topic-12949/page-1/?recent=221491#post=221414</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[The pickup bot was in Britain recently I think, probably just visiting.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:39:35 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by honeymustard</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/community/topic-12949/page-1/?recent=221491#post=221412</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[<i>Quoted from flushy</i>
		<blockquote>some say the pickup bot recently visited Britain...</blockquote>

No one says this you idiot]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:25:02 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by Jarppa</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/community/topic-12949/page-1/?recent=221491#post=221405</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[<i>Quoted from dotfloat™</i>
		<blockquote>I still don't understand why it connects to the irc server multiple times.</blockquote>There was some mentioning on another bot that makes topic changes.

Some parts of the bot are missing atm, like SQL tables. Also, config.php is fucked up.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:01:28 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by -Flush-</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/community/topic-12949/page-1/?recent=221491#post=221368</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[some say the pickup bot recently visited Britain...]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:43:13 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by dotfloat</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/community/topic-12949/page-1/?recent=221491#post=221363</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[I still don't understand why it connects to the irc server multiple times.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:41:15 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by Koeitje</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/community/topic-12949/page-1/?recent=221491#post=221360</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[The coding is shit? What a surprise!]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:36:15 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by Dr. Chris</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/community/topic-12949/page-1/?recent=221491#post=221356</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[<i>Quoted from atrox_</i>
		<blockquote>edit: jesus, looking at pminfo.php... that is horrificD:</blockquote>

not had a chance to look yet

when i do, this is what i will look at first]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:14:07 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by atr0xx</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/community/topic-12949/page-1/?recent=221491#post=221351</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[cheers&#60;3

edit: jesus, looking at pminfo.php... that is horrificD:]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:05:49 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Created by adam-skyride</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/community/topic-12949/page-1/?recent=221491#post=221200</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[Set this up mainly for Chris to super-nerd all over the place with it, but its there for anyone to play about with. :)

https://code.google.com/p/pixelpickupbot/

I'm only planning to use SVN for the minute, so don't go looking in the downloads section. :)]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:42:48 +0200</pubDate>
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