Wow ProfilesFollow

I'm pleased to announce that I'm releasing first version our World of Warcraft character profile system to beta.

You can see an example here: http://wow.allakhazam.com/profile.html?1

Character Profiles are free for all users, they do require a (free) site account so that we can tag the character to you. The first version tracks equipment stats and skills.

In order to get your character in,you need to use Wowreader and under the options menu enter your allakhazam.com username and password. Once you've installed Wowreader, you'll need to fire up World of Warcraft and enter and exit the game world. Your characters will appear under the Your Characters (http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/userinfo.html?1) link on the left menu.

You can select from 64 icons for display currently, I'll be adding more to the list as time goes on.

Additionally, an XML dump of your profile is available if you want to use the data in any other applications.

Feedback and suggestions are welcome, here, via PM or email.

Edited, Fri Oct 22 21:20:34 2004 by Illia

Edited, Tue Jan 25 10:10:25 2005 by Illia

This system is great, gratz---

Will it be possible to externaly link these profiles into a webpage?

Such as if we use an include with PHP to have the profile directly on the webpage; or a javascript function so that we can stick the profiles directly on our guild webpage without having to be switching website? Obviously the profile should sitll have a link back to Alla..

Thottbot's profile system does this (using Javascript).. just something that I found very nice and useful. =)

l33t

No stats on the neck or waist though, oddly. I'll need to log-in and see what the actual numbers on them are. (How does the profiler handle random greens?)

Nice, ralea. My (current) profile looks accurate.

I have 'logged in' to wow reader, and uploaded and no characters. I uninstalled wow reader, deleted the folder, and all files. I reinstalled, put in my login information, and still no characters...

It's my intention to have a WowReader client for OSX.

I seem to be having some troubles with this program as well. I run the program, log into my character, log out, try to upload and it says "no new date to upload" or something of those sorts. Am I missing something blaitantly obvious somehow? I am logging in as well, so I know that can't be the problem either. I'm lost and want to show off my profile, lol.

So what else is planned for this system? I realize calculating stats and retrieving talents might be more difficult without a plug-in to the game itself. Will profiles be sortable?

Yes - planning sortability on profiles.
Stats - debating how to store them means we're showing the wrong # at the moment.
Talents - Irritating Lua interface to pulling the values from the client is the hold up.

I'm open to suggestions for anything people would like to add as well.

MightyMage: It sounds like you're doing everything correctly, and you're right there shouldn't be any conflicts with Cosmos. One thing I've noticed is that sometimes the SavedVariables.lua file which we use to export the data gets locked and wow won't write to it. The fix is to open the file in any editor, hit enter on a blank line and save it. Deleting the file works too.

Let me know if that works, I'm expecting a few problems as we roll this out.

Hmm... tried adding a blank line at the bottom of the file you said and still no luck. :( Do you know of any other possible reasons this may be happening?

Here is a feature that could be interesting

Don't know how much work it would be...
Maybe it could be a premium feature...

But something like "search for teammates"
It could search for teammates with some criteria.

Complemental classes
Level Range
Tradeskill accomplishment

ps: sorry for the somehow not that good english...

stats are just plain wrong atm.

yes I'd like to display item augements, like armour kits and the like.