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

[tuaguild]

no with the [char] codes in there i was talking of my earlier post of how to fix the wyiswyg problem

[Forage]

Since upgrading to the newest version I notice if you choose the default server nothing will show up but that server however if you leave the server blank the mouse over only shows names instead of name and server. Where can I modify this to include server and character name?

[sweede]

The default server option doesnt work how one would think. If you enable the default server, it should override any server listed in the [char] tag.

It seems that you're expecting it to function in the manner that if you don't set the server in the [char] tag, that it would use the server set in the default option.

Which would be a good idea..

I'll correct the behavior in a day and upload a new version.

[Forage]

Nice looks good so far, Just curious but do you do more we work on dramaloot? If so kinda curious how hard it was to setup the armorylite profile links.

[sweede]

Ok, I'm totally confused to what you said...

anyways, look for an update tomorrow afternoon.

[pewp]

Installed this on my guild site and i'm getting the following errors when I click on a profile link.

Warning: vB_ProfileBlock_wowcharprofile::include_once([path]/includes/functions_wowcharcode.php) [vb-profileblock-wowcharprofile.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/member.php(463) : eval()'d code on line 29

Warning: vB_ProfileBlock_wowcharprofile::include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening '[path]/includes/functions_wowcharcode.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in [path]/member.php(463) : eval()'d code on line 29

Fatal error: Call to undefined function member_block_character() in /home/decimato/public_html/sb/forums/member.php(463) : eval()'d code on line 34

I've had this installed on other sites with no issues, I'm not sure what the problem is. We are running 3.7.1 PL2

[sweede]

go to Product & Plugin Manager -> Plugins and find the plugin named Build block ,hookd to member_build_blocks_start and disable (or delete) it.

[wolfstream]

Just a thought here:
The [char]character[/char] code no longer works? At least it doesn't for me. Examples:
[char=Us-Garona]Kanthathe[/char] works
[char=Garona]Kanthathe[/char] works
[char]Kanthathe[/char] does not, it returns the error "Something Else is wrong". Maybe you should look into your error codes.

If nothing else, you should update the initial post, as using character name alone will not work. It's also probably a good idea to find and fix whatever's causing the spacing error.

All in all, the product looks good, those errors are a bit frustrating though.

[tuaguild]

did you edit your settings in the vb options putting in the default realm and all that also clear the cache and make sure all your settings are correct

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by tuaguild

did you edit your settings in the vb options putting in the default realm and all that also clear the cache and make sure all your settings are correct

Yeah, no default realm was setup.
SO, I guess it's not possible to (using the wowchar_code variable) to have characters from multiple servers shown up in postbit? Or am I missing something here. Seems that only characters from the default server (if one is set) show up there.