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02-02-05, 02:45 PM   #1
Godxl
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 2
Get userinfo from Wow server using LUA

Hello there,

A couple of weeks ago a good friend of mine asked me to help him with a website he wanted to set up for his world of warcraft clan.

So i started to think as of how i could create a good site for him and came to the conclusion that we needed some kind of thing like www.thottbot.com has. They monitor players who have enabled a plugin from there site and then they know exactly where they are, what level there are, what quests they did, etc...

How cool would it be to have realtime stats of every member of your clan on your site. It is also good for new applicants who might want to join the clan. Since they just have to install the plugin and then the administrators could see who he/she is and can then decide if its a good applicant or not.

Anyway, im pretty experienced in PHP and i know almost everything about HTML. So i have a programming background but the thing is how does thottbot manage to get the information form the wow servers? I read on their site that they use LUA but they need an adress of the server to get it from at least. Anyone knows how thottbot works? How they gather data from users ingame, and if its possible to use this apparently build in function for a guild site too?

Any information you might be able to give me is highly appriciated! Thank you!

Kind regards,
Sam Briels
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