TalkPHP - View Single Post - World of Warcraft Armory xml Grabber with cURL

Yanayaya · 09-07-2010, 07:56 AM

I am loving the work that has been done so far on the cURL scripts. I have been viewing and using this topic myself and have produced my own data grabber for the Armory, I really want to take it a stage further than what it is and grab item info and also professions and specs of my character. I was wondering how this could be achived? I note that there are comments about about how to get the profession data and such but for the life of me I cannot get them to work and could use some help.

Here is my code for what I am doing, I have opted not to use the switches and case functions ofr this example to keep the code short in the thread :)

PHP Code:


			
function fetchXML($url)

{

//initialize library

$ch = curl_init();



//used to make us look like a browser

$useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1";



//set the url

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);



//set that I want to wait for a response

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);



//make us look like a web browser

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);



//get data

$data = curl_exec($ch);



//clean up

curl_close($ch);



///return xml data

return $data;

}

define("USE_CURL", true);



//set character and realm info

$realm = "Nordrassil";

$character = "Necroshen";

$url = "http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=" . $realm . "&n=" . $character ;



//get xml doc with character info

$data = fetchXML($url);



//create a SimpleXML object to parse the xml

$profile_xml = new SimpleXmlElement($data);

Where to look for the data

PHP Code:


			
    foreach ($profile_xml->characterInfo->character as $char){

    $charclass = return_class($char['classId']);

    $charrace = return_race($char['raceId'], $char['genderId']);

    $charrank = return_rank($char['rank']);

    }

Display the data

PHP Code:


			
    {

    echo "<li>{$char['name']}</li>";

    echo "<li>{$char['level']}</li>";

    echo "<li>{$char['battleGroup']}</li>";

    echo "<li>{$char['faction']}</li>";

    echo "<li>{$char['prefix']}</li>";

    echo "<li>{$char['guildName']}</li>";

    echo "<li>{$char['race']}</li>";

    echo "<li>{$char['realm']}</li>";

    echo "<li>{$char['class']}</li>";

    }

What I am looking to do now is pull item data and also profession and spec data as well and I need to know how do to that as I cannot get the above examples to work.

09-07-2010, 07:56 AM	#139 (permalink)
Yanayaya The Visitor Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 3 Thanks: 0	I am loving the work that has been done so far on the cURL scripts. I have been viewing and using this topic myself and have produced my own data grabber for the Armory, I really want to take it a stage further than what it is and grab item info and also professions and specs of my character. I was wondering how this could be achived? I note that there are comments about about how to get the profession data and such but for the life of me I cannot get them to work and could use some help. Here is my code for what I am doing, I have opted not to use the switches and case functions ofr this example to keep the code short in the thread :) PHP Code: function fetchXML($url) { //initialize library $ch = curl_init(); //used to make us look like a browser $useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1"; //set the url curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); //set that I want to wait for a response curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); //make us look like a web browser curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent); //get data $data = curl_exec($ch); //clean up curl_close($ch); ///return xml data return $data; } define("USE_CURL", true); //set character and realm info $realm = "Nordrassil"; $character = "Necroshen"; $url = "http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=" . $realm . "&n=" . $character ; //get xml doc with character info $data = fetchXML($url); //create a SimpleXML object to parse the xml $profile_xml = new SimpleXmlElement($data); Where to look for the data PHP Code: `foreach ($profile_xml->characterInfo->character as $char){ $charclass = return_class($char['classId']); $charrace = return_race($char['raceId'], $char['genderId']); $charrank = return_rank($char['rank']); }` Display the data PHP Code: `{ echo "<li>{$char['name']}</li>"; echo "<li>{$char['level']}</li>"; echo "<li>{$char['battleGroup']}</li>"; echo "<li>{$char['faction']}</li>"; echo "<li>{$char['prefix']}</li>"; echo "<li>{$char['guildName']}</li>"; echo "<li>{$char['race']}</li>"; echo "<li>{$char['realm']}</li>"; echo "<li>{$char['class']}</li>"; }` What I am looking to do now is pull item data and also profession and spec data as well and I need to know how do to that as I cannot get the above examples to work.