World of Warcraft Armory xml Grabber with cURL - Page 8

javelin · 03-15-2011, 07:46 PM

Sorry for bumping an old thread.

I'm also trying to grab information from the wowarmory using PHP, but they've changed all the armory setup and the examples here no longer work.

While troubleshooting the code, I've come across a couple of foreach loops that i dont understand and can't find any reference material on the net.

Code:

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

Code:

foreach ($XMLstream->guildInfo->guild->members->character as $char)

Could someone give me some insight as to whats happening in these loops? What is the "->" function doing here?

Thanks

mortisimus · 03-15-2011, 08:53 PM

They allow the $XMLstream variable to access different tags in the xml page.

Assuming $XMLstream is assigned to the pull_xml() function from the class decleration variable.

So basically

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<characterInfo>
<character>Data</character>
</characterInfo>

$profile_xml->characterInfo->character would give "Data" or something like that. I've neither played wow, nor written php for a long time.

If I recall though, the armory no longer uses xml, it's now html and javascript, so the code no longer works..

javelin · 03-15-2011, 11:17 PM

Ok, thanks that makes a lot more sense. I've never dealt with XML files so it had me really confused, particularly because the xml_pull wasn't giving XML formated data.

Guess, I'll have to use regular expressions to pattern out the data I need.

darque · 03-21-2011, 12:05 PM

Actually that isn't entirely true. The old armory xml streams are still available. Blizz has stated in a blue post that they will be adding xml to the main site (but haven't said when of course). You can access the old armory xml through the old URLs.

such as:

PHP Code:


			
www.wowarmory.com/guild-info.xml?r=REALMNAME&n=GUILDNAME&p=1

Note: the guild-info.xml was broken in the US for about a week recently. There is a blue post about it at:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2228413384