WoW: Roster Enhancement Idea
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Creator	tayluca
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Type	Suggestion
Section of the Site	Characters/Roster
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Description: When viewing the Roster page on my site and filtering it for World of Warcraft, I think an awesome enhancement to that page would be; instead of the big list of "keys" that individuals have, have in that area a row of icons with pre-parsed links to the following wow-related character improvement sites: Site - Example Link Wow Armory - http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=SERVERNAME&n=CHARACTERNAME Armory Light - http://www.armory-light.com/us/SERVERNAME/CHARACTERNAME/ Warcrafter - http://SERVERNAME-us.warcrafter.net/CHARACTERNAME WowJuju - http://www.wowjuju.com/index.php?page=6#US_SERVERNAME_CHARACTERNAME Be Imba - http://be.imba.hu/?zone=US&realm=SERVERNAME&character=CHARACTERNAME WowHeroes - http://www.wow-heroes.com/index.php?zone=us&server=SERVERNAME&name=CHARACTERNAME SERVERNAME is simply the name of the server, CHARACTERNAME is simply the name of the toon, which I believe both of these can easily be parsed from our websites and included into the links. These are some of the most common sites that people visit to get information on a character and would be an awesome and fairly simple enhancement to the roster page. BeImba does have an API system in place which would also be a fun addition if you could include their BeImba scores somehow or even include a functionality to sort by scores on the roster page but that's more advanced than my initial request so I won't go that far. But here's the link just in case you were interested: http://be.imba.hu/forums/viewforum.php?id=17 I find myself having to make my own spreadsheets or visiting each and every one of these sites in order to get a feel for my guildie's personal progression and this minor change would be such an amazing and useful improvement for myself and my guildies. Please consider this. Thank you.
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Interesting ideas. Thank you.

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It's all in the reflexes.

I've got a custom BB code tag for a bunch of those links too...

Character Info for $1: <a href="http://eldrethalas-us.warcrafter.net/$1">Warcrafter</a>-<a href="http://be.imba.hu/?zone=US&realm=Eldre%27Thalas&character=$1">Be Imba</a>-<a href="http://www.wowjuju.com/index.php?page=6#US_Eldre%27Thalas_$1">WoWJuju</a>-<a href="http://wowreputationcalculator.com/US/Eldre%27thalas/$1/">Rep Calc</a>-<a href="http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Eldre%27Thalas&n=$1">Armory</a>-<a href="http://www.warcraftrealms.com/search.php?serverid=432&region=2&raceid=-1&classid=-1&minlevel=10&maxlevel=80&search=$1&Submit1=SEARCH">Guild History</a>-<a href="http://wow-heroes.com/index.php?zone=us&server=Eldre%27Thalas&name=$1">WoW Heroes</a>-<a href="http://www.maxdps.com/mage/arcane.php?z=US&r=Eldre%27Thalas&n=$1">MaxDPS</a>-<a href="http://gear-wishlist.appspot.com/wishlist?character=$1&realm=Eldre%27Thalas&region=us&site=Wowhead">Gear Wishlist</a>-<a href="http://www.wowprogress.com/character/us/eldre-thalas/$1">WoW Progress</a>

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I'm sorry, I know slightly little about coding. Enough that it appears that you're pulling information from somewhere to represent "$1" and then your code is putting that name inside the code wherever it sees "$1". But can you explain how you're using this a little more, in a little more detail?

I know Chops is working on the GRSS updates, achievement stuff, etc and he's a busy guy. I hate to push anything else on his plate but this is a feature I'm really hoping to have as it would really help me out. Can you expand perhaps on how you're using this code so I could understand it a bit more, perhaps use it for my purposes or is it too complicated and custom to be something I could use as well?

OK, I did some more research on custom bbcode and I see where you're going with that. However, what would go in the "Regular Expression Search String" for that example? (I assume the code you posted goes in the "Replacement Text" section.

OK, no idea how I figured this out, this is not my area of expertise here. But the code for the Search String (if anyone else was wondering) is:

/\[imba](.*?)\[\/imba]/i

"imba" being whatever you wanted the tag name to be.

Still would like to see the Roster functionality, but needed to figure this bbcode stuff out as well so please don't close this ticket unless you just don't have plans to update the roster.

Not to keep spamming this page or anything but I wanted to show what I got done today. It's not the most ideal solution and it's kind of a pain in the booty to update the page but it's a fix for interim until we can get a more enhanced roster page.

[1] Upload icons to the Administrative File Uploader for each site I want to link to.

[2] Create custom BBCode
Search String

/\[tlinks](.*?)\[\/tlinks]/i

Replacement Text

$1: <a href="http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Dentarg&amp;n=$1" target="_blank"><img src="http://dkpfiles.com/koaguild/files/blizzard.gif" width="16" height="16" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://www.armory-light.com/us/Dentarg/$1/" target="_blank"><img src="http://dkpfiles.com/koaguild/files/lightarmory.gif" width="16" height="16" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://Dentarg-us.warcrafter.net/$1" target="_blank"><img src="http://dkpfiles.com/koaguild/files/warcrafter.png" width="16" height="16" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://www.wowjuju.com/index.php?page=6#US_Dentarg_$1" target="_blank"><img src="http://dkpfiles.com/koaguild/files/wowjuju.gif" width="16" height="16" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://be.imba.hu/?zone=US&amp;realm=Dentarg&amp;character=$1" target="_blank"><img src="http://dkpfiles.com/koaguild/files/beimba.gif" width="16" height="16" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://www.wow-heroes.com/index.php?zone=us&amp;server=Dentarg&amp;name=$1" target="_blank"><img src="http://dkpfiles.com/koaguild/files/heroes.png" border="0" /></a>

[3] Create Roster Page using the new "tlinks" custom BBCode.
View example here.