eRepublik Plus - embracing the power!!! (v0.51 is out)

Day 563, 07:16 • Published in Croatia USA • by Troegenator

Dear subscribers and those who still click a lot,

New and long awaited release of eRepublik Plus is out, more powerful than ever.
Thanks to the new cooperation with Gobba, from now on, eRepublik Plus offers you
what others were just promising - truly Interactive Map of The New World just a click away.



Synergy effect can be clearly experienced. Enjoy!

Another feature 0.51 offers is IMHO the most powerful feature so far. And it's named Quick Links. eRepublik Plus gives you the ability to define 10 links shown below the main menu.



You can define link caption, URL (including JavaScript!) and if the link will be opened in a new or existing window/tab.

Defining the links is done through eRepublik Plus Settings page (Community > Tools > Plus Settings tab). Simply enter the caption, url and check if you would like to open link in a new window and you are done.



Simple examples of usage would be to define links to your national forum, or you can define link to your very best friend to quickly check if he/she is online. Or, you can for instance add a link to donations page, or if you are donating to your company frequently you can also define link that will bring you directly to that page, including to whom you are donating. Just copy/paste the link from address bar when you are on page where you donate something to someone and it will be available to you just one click away. That way you basically do for yourself whatever you wanted eRepublik Plus natively do. And access to virtually any part of eRepublik is just a SINGLE click away.

Now, let's go to a bit more advanced and more powerful way of using Quick Links.
Type something like "Hello" for caption and for URL put something like: "javascript: alert('Hello eWorld!');" (without the quotes but with apostrophes). Go to your profile and see that link appeared in Quick Links. Now click it and you will get alert box with message Hello eWorld! Just an example, a lot more complex and powerful things can be done this way if you are familiar with JavaScript.

Third feature is that Quick Links allow you to use jQuery, one of the well-known frameworks for JavaScript. It supports a lot of stuff and all that power is available to you now. For example, try adding link with caption "Green" and as a URL put something like "javascript: $j('body').css('background-color', green);" (without quotes). Now again, go to Profile and click Green button. I hope you are now aware of what power you have with eRepublik Plus Quick Links feature.

IMPORTANT!!!
A lot of power also brings a lot of responsibility. Please be aware of security issues that such a powerful thing brings with it. NEVER, absolutely NEVER EVER copy/paste JavaScript code in URL if you are not ABSOLUTELY sure you know what that code does. Responsibility is all yours!!! So, be smart, be clever, and use the power wisely. Embrace it!

Other minor updates include addition of Bulgaria, Russia and Singapore links to national pages and forums as well as some code tweaks to prepare eRepublik Plus for future version od Spanish eRepublik. Link to Spanish national forum is now fixed as well.

As always you are welcome to comment, criticize, discuss… I am also interested in a ways how do you use Quick Links so feel free to PM me your masterpieces.

Remember also that eRepublik Plus is a donationware and your donation will be highly appreciated. Most users are donating about 1 gold. That will surely keep me motivated.
Also, please vote and subscribe so eRepublik Plus gets an attention of eCommunity.

As usual, latest version of eRepublik Plus v0.51 is here, and Grand Tutorial is fully updated as well.

Embracing you all,
PeeKaBooh