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

[CremeEgg]

Thats totally odd. As far as I can see the permissions are correct.

[sweede]

What about the armory directory itself?

Also, do you have access to the error_log file for your domain? that may tell you a bit more.

if you delete (rename, whatever) the armory folder, it won't try to cache images and use images from wowarmory.com instead.

[sweede]

Oh, and i want to change a couple thing so that instead of caching images to the filesystem, it caches them to the MySQL database so you don't have to add new directories and run into issues such as this. I'm not quite that far long with it though.

[CremeEgg]

Originally Posted by sweede

What about the armory directory itself?

Also, do you have access to the error_log file for your domain? that may tell you a bit more.

if you delete (rename, whatever) the armory folder, it won't try to cache images and use images from wowarmory.com instead.

Armory is 777, subdirs are 764.

I will have to see about an error log not looked for one before.

[sweede]

Originally Posted by CremeEgg

Armory is 777, subdirs are 764.

I will have to see about an error log not looked for one before.

don't worry about the error log, 764 means that the owner has RWX (Read, Write, Execute), Group has Read,Write, and world (Everyone) has read permissions.

apache needs execute access in any directory it serves images from, so the permissions on folders should be 755 (or 751, but we wont get into unix permissions here).

[sweede]

CremeEgg, try this.

delete your armory/images folder (don't delete the armory folder), hopefully you do not need to get your host involved due to permission issues.

open up functions_wowcharcode.php and find the line

mkdir($full_image_path ,0777,true);

Replace that line with all of the following

$dirs  = explode("/",dirname($image_loc));
$path = DIR . "/" . $localpath;
foreach ($dirs AS $element)
{
  $path .= $element . "/";
  @mkdir($path ,0777,true);
  if(!chmod($path,0755))
 {
     echo "error chmod'ing $path";
 }
}

[CremeEgg]

Originally Posted by sweede

don't worry about the error log, 764 means that the owner has RWX (Read, Write, Execute), Group has Read,Write, and world (Everyone) has read permissions.

apache needs execute access in any directory it serves images from, so the permissions on folders should be 755 (or 751, but we wont get into unix permissions here).

Works fine now thanks. My *nix skills are weak, don't really have much to do with it anymore.

[sweede]

Just as a notice, I plan on updating this in a few days.

Changes will include a more absract method of retreiving and storing character data from the armory. This will be a set of class methods that anyone can use to get , cache and display armory data.

Much better method of selecting what attributes to display. I'm also currently trying to figure out how to make character "roles" work, but am unsure if that would be a possibilty or even a wise idea, due to the amount of setup on the end users part it would require.

I would estimate a week or two before i have an update ready. If anyone has suggestions or any requests, let me know.

[Gooner]

Would it be possible to make the users names interactive on the forums? based on usergroup permissions.

for example your name on your post "SWEEDE" would display your player stats... but obviously not ever on the forum will use there in game name to have the option through Cpanel to turn interactivity for your name on.

[hinch]

Just installed this and it works great but at the same time throws up some mkdir errors.

Line in question is

PHP Code:

mkdir($full_image_path ,0777,true); 


I've attached a screenshot so you can see the errors its throwing up