[sweede]

I have the parser working as it should be,
http://dramaloot.com/test2.php
what happens is you do the normal [item]whatever[/item] , and it goes off to grab the xml from wowhead (it needs to get the item id). after parsing the XML, it writes a URL link in the proper format

<a class="q4" href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=32239">[Slippers of the Seacaller]</a>

So now, I need to implement caching, because having to hit wowhead each page refresh is pretty inefficent.

I don't think i'll be able to have the entire thing as a plugin w/no external files to upload, but i dont think that will be a problem.

The cache will use the existing gItemStats tables because it stores the two things you need, the item id and the item name.