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03-08-2007, 06:22 PM

IAmThomas

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World Of Warcraft XML

OK, so WoW launched the Armory so I was tried to do something with PHP.

http://armory.wow-europe.com/charact...enor&n=Trigguh
When you view the source, it shows you alot of XML information about the char.

When I get PHP to get the contents of that address, and echo them out. The source is completely different.

http://www.thomas.uk.to/wow

Is there any other way to get the XML Data thats in the Source with PHP?

03-08-2007, 07:30 PM

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That page doesn't appears to be good ol' xhtml to me, not an xml page.

I've never messed around with xml in php to be fair but if it is possible to get html out, you'll notice in the source of WoW's site, things such as style sheets are not linked with the full path, as you don't have the style sheet stored locally (I prosume) it won't show up on your page!

Code:

if (is_ie7)
    document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" href="css/ie7.css" />');

if (is_ie6 && !is_ie7)
    document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" href="css/ie.css" />');
	
if (is_opera)
    document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" href="css/opera.css" />');
	
if (is_opera && is_mac)
    document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" href="css/opera-mac.css" />');

if (is_safari)
    document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" href="css/safari.css" />');

if (is_mac)
    document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" href="css/mac.css" />');

03-22-2007, 05:53 PM

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I too am trying to get the XML source, rather than the xhtml transitional code that the Armory seems to send. I want to be able to use it with PHP, and I've unsuccessfully figured out how to pull out the XML document without the translation, which both IE and Firefox seem to be capable of doing.

03-26-2007, 10:49 PM

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I figured it out. you have to set the user agent to something it likes, so adding the line:

PHP Code:


			
ini_set('user_agent',"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2");

before you actually request the XML file will trick the armory system into believing you are using one of the more advanced, modern browsers (in this case, Mozilla FireFox). Then you will get XML rather than the XHTML Transitional code from their server.

Case in point, my sidebar on my personal website (http://darkhelm.org) has a section listing my WoW characters, done through PHP, using the data straight from the armory.