Miscellaneous Hacks - WoW Character BBCode

This is a continuation of the project, https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=160418 . I have made several modifications to the original authors code and several have asked for my modifications.

Because of this and the original authors lack of updating the original modification, I have decided to upload this package for all to use.

All credit goes to the original author(s) of the utility as i have only cleaned up the code and packaged it for easy usage.

WARNING!
This is very beta at this time. I have added the product now to force myself to update and maintain the plugin and to share it with the rest of my fellow World of Warcraft webmasters

Installation

1. Uninstall your existing WoW Char Code installation. I have changed the product ID itself and it may not update everything correctly.
2. Remove the clientscript/ajax_tooltip and clientscript/phparmory folders if they exist
3. Upload the contents of the "Upload" Folder to the ROOT directory of your forums (for example, if you have your forums installed in /home/mydir/public_html/forums , you would unzip into that folder.)
4. Import the product/product-WoWCharBBCode-?.??.xml file

Changelog

• 0.4.9b
  • Added basic Death Knight support
  • Fixed problem with characters with no professions (common with Death Knights)
• 0.4.9a
  • Fixed a minor issue with realms in spaces in the name
• 0.4.9
  • Added wysiwyg support
• 0.4.8a
  • Fixed a php parse error in functions_wowcharcode.php. you do not need to download the entire zip file, just replace your existing functions_wowcharcode.php file with the attached .php file
• 0.4.8
  • changed many items to OO code.
  • Added new debug log facility ( install https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...hreadid=176899 )
  • Added ability to paste a wow armory URL and have it create an appropriate character link (i.e. paste http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...man&n=Geophery and it creates [char=Uldaman]Geophery[/char]
• 0.4.7a
  • Removed some left over debugging statements and info in the product and php file.
• 0.4.7
  • Changed the backend armory code.
  • Updated caching to not cache Armory results that end up as errors
  • Added character class, race and professions as vbphrases.
  • Added KR and TW Armory locales. (, etc)
  • Some minor fixes.
• 0.4.4
  • Added Icon caching to help with slow armory. Images are cached by default in the armory folder. chmod this folder to 777 and icons will be automaticly cached to this folder.
  • You can now use the variable $wowchar_code in the postbit (or postbit_legacy) to display the character tooltip in a post.
• 0.4.3 Fixed issue with rebuilding post cache.
• 0.4.2 Added option to show/hide realm if a default realm is set.
• 0.4.1 Fixed an issue if the character doesnt have armory data, Only change is in functions_wowcharcode.php file.
• 0.4
  • All Character stat text are now phrases. you will find a new Phrase Type in the Phrase Manager ( WoW BBCode Phrases )
  • Added default realm option so one does not need to use the [char=server] option when specifying characters on own realm.
  • Customized the stat display per class and on some specs (such as feral v.s. resto druids). see an example at http://www.dramaloot.com/forums/showthread.php?p=19271

• 0.3
  • Armory Caching works for both US and EU armorys.
  • Removed un-used files.
  • Put the majority of the codes HTML creation as templates and use vbulletins ajax.php and hooks.
  • Added options for default locale (armory) to use (currently EU and US armories).
  • Added option to disable caching of the Armory (i use it to test armory retrieval)
  • Added ability to specify what armory the character / realm you would like, see usage notes below.
• 0.2
  • Armory Caching never actually worked properly, this should now be fixed.
  • Remove the includes/functions_wow3bbcode.php file. This has been replaced by a plugin.
  • Remove the clientscript/phparmory/config.php file. This isnt needed.
  • Major updates to phparmory.php
  • Minor Plugin changes + code cleanup.

ToDo

• New tooltip javascript
• New character sheet.
• Create easy to modify interface for character stats to be displayed in tooltip.

Usage
Using the character code is easy enough,
[char]CHARACTER[/char] if default realm option is set and character links is on same realm.
For characters not on the same realm as the default,
[char=SERVER]CHARACTER[/char]
For example,
[char=Vek'nilash]Azaril[/char]
Or, if you want to link a character profile from another locale (i.e. EU realms) , you simply add EU- before the server name.
[char=EU-Vek'nilash]Azaril[/char]

The same thing applies to linking US realm characters from a EU default forum.

See a working example at http://www.dramaloot.com/index.php?id=officer_cl (This is a vbadvanced custom page using the BBCode page type).

Added German translation for what i currently have localized. Provided by jluerken http://www.wow-relaxed.de

[squidsoup]

Hey there, got a wee problem - I'm trying to add a link in user post bits, but for some reason I'm getting some concatenation of the character name custom field, and the previous custom field (in this case Biography). Any ideas? thanks




I think I might see the problem - on line 354 this is hard coded:

$wowchar_server   = $post['field1'];

I changed this to reflect a custom field I defined for server and it fixed the problem, but it's a bit hacky.

The problem is that if the custom field 'field1' is already defined, it skips the if statement which would set the realm name correctly:

if(!$wowchar_server)
{
	$wowchar_server = $vbulletin->options['wowcharcode_default_realm'];
	$wowchar_use_default =  true;
}

[sweede]

I hate warcraft.

I play that stupid game so much i have little time to fix these issues. well, most of them i have fixed but i keep changing my vbulletin installation and losing most of my updates.

the whole postbit thing is very "hacky". it was a quick addition as sort of "proof" type thing that i never really advanced.

[hunteds911]

Is there going to be an update to fix the issue with Death Knights? I get the following error wnow when I put the name of a character that is a Death Knight.

Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/includes/functions_wowcharcode.php on line 908

I love the mod by the way just looks like maybe it wasn't liking Death Knights for some reason. lol All my other Classes come up fine no error just the Death Knight getting the error listed above.

[sweede]

Originally Posted by hunteds911

Is there going to be an update to fix the issue with Death Knights? I get the following error wnow when I put the name of a character that is a Death Knight.

Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/includes/functions_wowcharcode.php on line 908

I love the mod by the way just looks like maybe it wasn't liking Death Knights for some reason. lol All my other Classes come up fine no error just the Death Knight getting the error listed above.

An Update is coming this time i swear!!

but it wont be until after thursday when i'm finished with my work week.

[Nadeemjp]

is this a list of all the bb codes ?
what does it basically do?
and when would the non-beta, i.e., more stable product be launching?

[hunteds911]

Originally Posted by sweede

An Update is coming this time i swear!!

but it wont be until after thursday when i'm finished with my work week.

You "Rock" Thanks man... Awesome mod/hack.

[hunteds911]

Originally Posted by Nadeemjp

is this a list of all the bb codes ?
what does it basically do?
and when would the non-beta, i.e., more stable product be launching?

It was pretty stable until the Death Knights came into the picture. Other than the Death knights popping up errors like I posted earlier it has been working swimmingly for me.

[sweede]

I had an update planned for today/tomorrow but with the armory changes and the achievements , i want to try to work something out to show those off also (as an option). I'm pretty sure that everything with the latest update should fix most of the errors. I am going to put out another minor update soon that change how it gets data from the armory that doesnt use curl.

There is a new display and i am working on a config panel. You will have configurable blocks that will have various options to display. you will be able to select what blocks for each class to display.

With the achievements though this could change a bit as i want to have something cool with those.

[hunteds911]

Originally Posted by sweede

I had an update planned for today/tomorrow but with the armory changes and the achievements , i want to try to work something out to show those off also (as an option). I'm pretty sure that everything with the latest update should fix most of the errors. I am going to put out another minor update soon that change how it gets data from the armory that doesnt use curl.

There is a new display and i am working on a config panel. You will have configurable blocks that will have various options to display. you will be able to select what blocks for each class to display.

With the achievements though this could change a bit as i want to have something cool with those.

Awesome can't wait to see it.

[exportforce]

Which xml to use ?
The one included in the zip or the external ?