gWoWChar - World of Warcraft Character Menu
 

What is it?
[hr]-[/hr]gWoWChar is a modification for vBulletin which allows you to display popup World of Warcraft character information in your forums posbit.

If you use this mod, please Mark as Installed, and if you really enjoy this mod, please Nominate for MOTM, and if you really really enjoy this mod, feel free to Support Developer! Thank you!


Support
[hr]value[/hr]I use my released mods daily, if I find an issue with them or add features for myself I will release updates. If there are significant bugs or simple feature requests I will do my best to release fixes. Some of my mods rely on fetching data from 3rd party websites, due to the unreliable results, my mods will require users to troubleshoot for themselves if they find the addon is not working for them specifically. I am offering my personal mods that work ok for me for you to use, I am sorry I do not have time to troubleshoot many user specific issues. Thank you for your understanding.

Features
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• Allows your users to enter multiple servers and characters
• Links to either US or EU WoW Armorys.
• Templated so you can direct links somewhere other than the Armory if you wish.
• Manually place menu in postbit with $wowchar_menu
• Optionally automatically add to postbit*
• Shows formatted links on user profile profile.
• Unified profilefield compatible with gWoWEvents and gWoWRoster

*Automatic addition of menu may not work with all templates.

Installation
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1. Download the latest version and upload all files.
2. Install the product.
3. Create a Multiple-Line Text Box User Profile Field.
   • /admincp/?loc=profilefield.php%3Fdo%3Dadd
   • Multiple-Line Text Box
   • Continue
   • Title: World of Warcraft Characters
   • Description:
     Code:

     ---

     Enter one character per line.<br /><br />Format: US/EU|Realm|Faction|Name<br /><br />Example: US|Mal'Ganis|Alliance|Gryphen

     ---

   • Default Value: Leave Blank
   • Max length of allowed user input: 1000
   • Field Length: 50
   • Text Area Height: 6
   • Field Editable by User: Yes
   • Other options are optional.
   • Save
   • Look and see what the field name is for World of Warcraft Characters, example field25.
4. Fill in the gWoWChar configuration options.
5. That is all, instruct people to fill in their profile.

Changes
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v1.3.0 - Import product with Overwrite

• Fix for vBulletin 3.7

v1.24 - Import product with Overwrite

• Maintenance release for vBulletin 3.7

v1.23 - Import product with Overwrite

• Added option to limit posbit menu to specific forums
• Memberinfo display now lists characters in two columns

v1.22 - Import product with Overwrite

• Attempt at encoding url's properly

v1.21 - Import product with Overwrite

• Small update for new Armory urls

v1.20 - Import product with Overwrite

• Now hooks $template_hook[postbit_userinfo_left] for automatic postbit insertion
• Removed profile overhaul changes, it is too prone to breaking things.

v1.10 - Import product with Overwrite

• Added links in member profile page.
• Added option to clean up the user profile display.

v1.00 - Upload all files import product.

• Initial Release

Copyright
[hr]-[/hr]gXboxLive, Copyright ? Ghryphen (https://github.com/ghryphen)
Please maintain copyrights in derivative works, thank you.

~Reserved~

I installed, but the link isn't working, I just get the text that was typed into the profile field.

Interesting, I will look into this.

*Edit: I am not sure what is causing this, the html that should be inserted into your postbit is nothing like what my templates look like.

Do you have some mod that changes the templates or anything?

looks nice, will check it out when I get home. thanks for this.

AWESOME!

Many thanks, worked perfectly the first time.

Thank you :)

Just uploaded v1.10, it now displays the links on the users profile and you can optionally change the display so it looks a little less cluttered.

I installed without any errors in the installation. However when I look at my forums all the threads and posts aren't showing. I created the profile fields and inserted the code for the postbits. I'm not sure what else to do, if I disable gWoWChar, all the threads will show.

Another great add-on! Thanks for the awesome work - I look forward to seeing more WoW and vBulletin integrations from you.

Memorex, do you have an edited postbit? Do you have a link to your site?

the postbit is a little edited, i did manualy add the $wowchar_menu to the default style and was testing with that style. none of the threads were viewable in any style heres the link to the website www.moskrayt.org/forums

Yet another great mod!

BlackJack, I love you man.

I'm having the same problem with just text being outputted. Nothing shows up on my user posts, just in the profiles.

I used a template I bought and then slightly modded.

www.fullcircleguild.net/forum

Hmm that is still a stumper for me. I will continue to look into why this is happening for some.

thanks :)

it works great

but i have some problems with ? ? ?

Special characters really shouldn't be in people's names anyways, but as a we can probably escape those somehow, right, Blackjack?

Yeah, I realized that when some EU characters put in their profiles. I think I have it fixed for the next version. I always have trouble with character encoding :)

I'm a bit confused here, i uploaded the files, installed the XML product into Product manager, i can see my text field i created just fine. The question is, when you say "gwowchar config" to enter your field25 that you use for example, where the heck is that at? I enter the information and nothing shows up, im assuming it doesnt know which profile field to pull from.

Well you need to create a user profile field, and then see what number it is and then use that number in the config. field25 is just an example of the number format you are looking for, yours may be field15 or field679, you have to look at your profile field manager to find the id.

yes, that i know it's "field10"

My question is, where is the config to enter my field ID? I see a bunch of templates created by the xml installer but don't know specifically what config i am looking for.

Go to, yoursite.com/admincp/?loc=options.php%3Fdo%3Doptions%26dogroup%3Dgwc_gr oup1

Enter it in the, Userfield ID section.

What is the code I need to manually edit the postbit_legacy?

It didn't work for me.

It says on the config options, $wowchar_menu

You need to set Automatically Insert to No in order for manual insert to work.

Works perfect, thanks!

Is there any way I can move where it displays?

I know its a change in one of the templates i want to make sure i edit the correct one.

You need to disable Automatically Insert, and place $wowchar_menu in your postbit wherever you want the menu to appear.

Perfect, thanks!

Thanks........

Hi BlackJack, first of all congrats for a wonderful hack, I installed it on my board as well, but recently I've run into a little problem.

Everything is displayed as expected, but the links in postbit don't work, just the Profile ones. The menu is displayed correctly under the user reputation, but when you click on the char link nothing happens, it's like the URL field is empty. However, if you try to access the same Armory char link from the User Profile, it works as advertised.

I tried to reinstall the hack, but the end result is the same.

Any thoughts?

P.S: another weird thing is that if I set the Automatically Insert option to No and manually put the $wowchar_menu in the postbit, the menu is displayed, but if I switch the option to Yes, the menu doesn't show up anymore.

Looks like everything is ok, however something is modifying the links to insert the urchinTracker onclick. I am not sure if this is what is interfering with the clicking of the links, but seems like a likely culprit.

Regarding adding $wowchar_menu manually and clicking Yes, I am sure it might cause some issue as it wasn't intended to be used in that manner. It would probably try and add a second $wowchar_menu which probably messes with vBulletin's javascript or your urchinTracker insert thing.

However, everything looks fine for the most part on your install accept for the urchinTracker insert.

Thank you for clicking Install :)

k I managed to install this... but when you click on the wow characters link, there are no images in the drop down, nor in the profile... so it doesnt show the images at all anywhere...

Make sure you upload the images to your styles misc directory. I can not assume what your directory would be named, so I have only included the default directory.

I got this installed but it's not showing on the posts display (postbit), only via Profile viewing.

I think I may have changed something in postbit and so it won't show (the option is selected).

Could you tell me what the code is to insert into postbit so I can do it manually where I want please?

Hopefully if you tell me that I will be able to learn more about deciphering xml files to do things like this on my own in future.

Cheers.

Go to to the options and disable auto insert the code for the postbit is shown there as well.

Got it, thanks.

I tried putting that into the showroster mod (elsewhere on this site) but nothing appears.

Are you able to offer any quick assistance to get this into there?

If not, nevermind.

Code in showroster_userbits is

if you're able to help.

Thanks for any given.

The code is only generated when the default posbit is displayed, trying to use it anywhere else will not work.

Ok thanks.

One day I'll get to know more than I do at the moment (which won't be too hard).

BlackJack

I have been busting my head with this... for a while today... No matter where I put it it wont show in Postbit. It works perfectly in Postbit legacy, but not in postbit.

I have made a test account for my site:

username: test
password: ecctest

www.excincin.com

Could you or anyone log in and tell me if it shows up for you? Its not showing and I have the Automatic thingy turned to No, and I have tried placing $wowchar_menu in different areas but it still doesnt work.

Any help will be appreciated.

Kildjean

PS. I have also not been able to make the images work either....

Looks like it is working, you need to upload the images to the misc folder specific to your style.

FYI: The Modify Member Profile option does not work with vBulletin 3.6.6 as of gWoWChar v1.10.

i can confirm, in my 3.6.7, this module will not work