Welcome to ESAM

ESAM (pronnounced ee-sam) is the EVE to SMF API Module and is intended for use by web masters running Simple Machines Forums for EVE Communities, Corporations, and Alliances.

Official EVE-Online Discussion Thread:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=36727&find=unread

Old Forum Thread: http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1048702

Development on ESAM for SMF1 has come to a halt.

Squizz Caphinator has elected to not implement any more features into this version of ESAM. Future versions of ESAM will be generated under a new project and will support SMF2. This project is closed.

Anyone that would like to pick up and continue this project please feel free to contact Squizz Caphinator.

Introduction

ESAM is a simple way for EVE web masters to manage their Simple Machines Forums registration.

Once ESAM is installed, all members on a forum will be asked to provide their Limited API Key. This API will be checked to see what characters are on the account and ensure that one of them is in the corporation or alliance that the forums represent. Then, using web master set rules within the module settings, ESAM will add the user to whatever MemberGroups are appropriate based on his/her alliance, corporation, and corp roles.

This fully automates the process of registering individuals to the forums and ensuring that they have all the correct access rights.

This tool will be helpful to web masters running forums with a couple of dozen members, and absolutely invaluable to those web masters running forums with hundreds, or thousands of members.

Brief History

The initial idea for this goes back some ways to when Xornicon Altair was running the forums for a large and growing alliance. We would have new corps come in and we we set them up a group and provide the CEO and a couple of Directors the ability to authorize their own members. But, it suffered as not all CEOs and Directors were at all active in getting their members in, and were even less active in getting their old members out as they left the corp.

The corp that I was in since left that alliance and moved on. We decided to create a new alliance with the intent of proving to ourselves that we had learned from the mistakes of the past. While everyone else was learning from their ingame mistakes, I decided to learn from my web mastering mistakes.

And so it was that the idea for ESAM (though not yet named as such) was born. I posted an article on several EVE Community boards, including the official board, with a 250m ISK reward to any programmer willing to take this on. This was met by another person offering up a matching reward, making the reward 500m ISK. Not a huge amount of ISK, but certainly worth some effort.

This is the point where the initial developer of this module, Sasha J, enters the picture. He accepted the reward and began work on the project. Though the project went well over the initially planned time, the end result was well worth it.

Release

This module is being released under the GNU General Public License v3. Source is available via SVN.

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