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

[sweede]

The images are pulled from wowarmory.com, which is 90% of the time pretty slow.

I guess that's an idea though. to cache the images from wowarmory to your local webspace. it would require that you have a directory writable by the webserver though.

[Zath]

You are awsome! Thank you so much!!

[Caerydd]

I might see if I can mash this together with the WoWChar drop down addon (I think gryphon made it?) as a tidier way to add characters, although gryphon's one supports alts.

[MrShides]

Originally Posted by Caerydd

I might see if I can mash this together with the WoWChar drop down addon (I think gryphon made it?) as a tidier way to add characters, although gryphon's one supports alts.

This would be sofaking cool

[Caerydd]

Mebbe, but I'm not going to do it now. His 'version' pulls armory data for his new WoW Event Calendar, so I wouldn't want to mess it up However Sweede's bbcode would be a nicer way of displaying characters in the postbit ^^ So...we'll see.

I love love love that we have two great developers maintaining these mods now

[sweede]

Originally Posted by Caerydd

Mebbe, but I'm not going to do it now. His 'version' pulls armory data for his new WoW Event Calendar, so I wouldn't want to mess it up However Sweede's bbcode would be a nicer way of displaying characters in the postbit ^^ So...we'll see.

I love love love that we have two great developers maintaining these mods now

My mod retrieves the armory XML data and stores the entire thing into the database. the cached data expires after 6 hours (at least thats what i think it did).

Anything that that uses armory data can easily be re-written to use the cache storage container that i have

For example, the elricstorm calander read the XML file from the armory then copied the parts of the XML to the database. You would simply change the code that retrieves the the armory from the URL with what i wrote.

[MrShides]

My Fury Warriors and Ehancement Shaman where commenting on how they really like the addon, however they would really like it to display their Attackpower and Crit Chance.

[sweede]

Originally Posted by MrShides

My Fury Warriors and Ehancement Shaman where commenting on how they really like the addon, however they would really like it to display their Attackpower and Crit Chance.

It appears that melee crit wasnt part of the original or i accidently deleted it..

Go to admincp -> Phrase Manager -> Add New Phrase

Phrase Type: WoW BBCode Phrases
Product: WoW BB Code
Varname: wowcharcode_melee_crit
Text: Melee Crit

Save.

Open includes/functions_wowcharcode.php file and find

$value["melee main dps"] 		= $melee['mainhanddamage']['dps'];

Add

  $value["melee crit"]            = $melee['critchance']['percent'] . "%";

after it.

Find

"melee main dps" => 3,

Add

 "melee crit" => 3,

after it

Now, you can add the melee crit ID in the make_extra_data method.
Change all lines that read

$default = array_merge($default, array("melee main damage", "melee main dps"));

to

$default = array_merge($default, array("melee main damage", "melee main dps","melee crit"));

There should be 4 places to change (you don't need to change the hunter section that starts with // Hunter 2 melee stats).

I'll incorporate this into a more complete package at a later time. I want to finish up a couple other things first.

[CremeEgg]

With the caching enabled I can't see any of the images. They are being cached, I've checked the folder on the server.

I have this issue alot with the theme I'm using when I have images that are outside of the themes folder root.

There are no replacement variables set in the theme though. Should I add one for the armory/images folder or is there a way I can move that folder?

[sweede]

odd, if you go to http://www.destinyawaitsguild.co.uk/...w-70/1-1-2.gif

The image is there, but you get a permission error when trying to view it. Using an FTP client (or if you have a shell to the server which is the best!), try to browse to the /forum/armory/images folder and note the permissions.

Note the attached image, in CuteFTP that is the info i'll be looking for.