10Jan/100
Parsing the WoW Armory – Part 1
Today I pulled a list of every character in We Know from the WoW Armory in 5 lines of code.
< ?PHP ini_set("user_agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/20121223 Ubuntu/9.25 (jaunty) Firefox/3.8"); $url='http://www.wowarmory.com/guild-info.xml?r=Eitrigg&gn=We+Know'; $xml = simplexml_load_file($url); foreach($xml->guildInfo->guild->members->character as $char) echo $char['name']." - ".$char['level']."<br />"; ?>
I never realized how easy is was to pull information from the WoW Armory until now. My method has its obvious flaws, such as the output is in no obvious order. I modified my original script to sort the list in ABC order and added a $server and $guild variable to allow for easy modification. Below is a more refined version, in under 15 lines of code the pulled list is sorted in ABC order and displayed.
< ?PHP ini_set("user_agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/20121223 Ubuntu/9.25 (jaunty) Firefox/3.8"); $server = "Eitrigg"; $guild = "We+Know"; $url='http://www.wowarmory.com/guild-info.xml?r='.$server.'&gn='.$guild; $xml = simplexml_load_file($url); $array = array(); foreach($xml->guildInfo->guild->members->character as $char) $array[] = $char['name']." - ".$char['level']."<br />"; sort($array); $i = 0; while($array[$i] != null) { echo $array[$i]; $i++; } ?>
This script is just a quick and dirty way to accomplish the simple task of pulling names from the WoW Armory. I would recommend against using this in a production environment without some sort of cache/database option implemented.
