[Development] Using cURL and PHP to talk to the WoWArmory

[Svpernova09]

class armory {

const BROWSER="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070319 Firefox/2.0.0.3";

public $query;
public $server;
public $guild;
public $guildie;
public $page;
public $armoryRegion;


public function __construct ( $query, $server, $guild, $guildie, $page, $funcRegion ) {
$this->query = $query;
$this->server = $server;
$this->guild = $guild;
$this->guildie = $guildie;
$this->page = $page;
$this->region = $funcRegion;
} // end of __construct()

public function pull_xml() {
global $USaurl;
global $EUaurl;
global $currentArmoryRegion;
// change the first part of the $url to the armory link that you need
if( $this->query === 'roster' ){
if ($armoryRegion == 'US'){
$url = 'http://www.wowarmory.com/guild-info.xml?r=' . urlencode($this->server) . '&n=' . urlencode($this->guild) . '&p=' . $this->page;
} else {
$url = 'http://eu.wowarmory.com/guild-info.xml?r=' . urlencode($this->server) . '&n=' . urlencode($this->guild) . '&p=' . $this->page;
}
}elseif( $this->query === 'character' ){
if ($armoryRegion == 'US'){
$url = 'http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=' . urlencode($this->server) . '&cn=' . $this->guildie;
} else {
$url = 'http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=' . urlencode($this->server) . '&cn=' . $this->guildie;
}
}elseif( $this->query === 'arena' ){
$currentArmoryRegion = $armoryRegion;
if ($this->region === 'US'){
$url = 'http://www.wowarmory.com/character-arenateams.xml?r=' . urlencode($this->server) . '&cn=' . $this->guildie;
$USaurl = 'http://www.wowarmory.com/character-arenateams.xml?r=' . urlencode($this->server) . '&cn=' . $this->guildie;
} else {
$url = 'http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-arenateams.xml?r=' . urlencode($this->server) . '&cn=' . $this->guildie;
$EUaurl = 'http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-arenateams.xml?r=' . urlencode($this->server) . '&cn=' . $this->guildie;
}
}

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 15);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, self::BROWSER);

$url_string = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return simplexml_load_string($url_string);


} // end of pull_xml()

} // end class

Usage:

$armory = new armory( arena , $toonRealm , NULL , $toonName , NULL, $armoryRegion);
$xml = $armory->pull_xml();

[Zub]

i would suggest adding
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
$http_code = curl_getingo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

I had to do so for my own sig tool (as seen below) as the armory sometimes redirect, and when the maintenance is on you might get a error 500 and no data instead of the 'maintenance" xml page.

In any case, check for the "errorhtml" tag in the response xml for armory errors, and check "belowMinLevel" for toons not yet of age.

[edit]
Also, make sure you pass a rawurlencoded $server, $guild and $guildie to take care of accentuated names and realms with quotes.