It’s finally in a very good working shape! And it best be, considering I’ve been punching at it all night. :P
*EDIT*
Quick statement, since I forgot. TO UPDATE TO THE NEW VERSION YOU NEED TO DEACTIVATE AND ACTIVATE THE PLUGIN AGAIN. THIS IS REQUIRED SINCE I UPDATED THE DATABASE VERSION.
Thank you, that is all. Please continue to enjoy your regularly schedule blog post.
XML Parser rewritten, should be faster and no longer require anymore rewrites… Hopefully.
Version checking on install/activation. Should update out-dated database versions to the newest version.
And what everyone really has been waiting for:
[itemico] tags
Different languages! Currently supported are: German, French and Spanish. These are entirely dependent on what Wowhead has added. If they add more, so will I.
Also, link tags! Added for the itemico link mainly, so you can change the display size of an icon independently the blog’s defaults.
Re-re-rewrite of the XML parser
- removes extra iterations in the xml parsing, so new items should load faster
itemico tags! (have to give credit to Darren and Apnea for the idea, thanks you two :P)
- tag to display item icons instead of item text links. (example below)
Some minor database changes. (need to cache item icon type)
And probably some other stuff, like bug fixes and error handling, but those are silly. ;)
After a few days of script changes, and some making my blog spew out errors at me, I’ve finished enough of the script to feel confident in a beta release! So, for your blogging pleasure, I present to you:
The changelog is posted on the plugin’s page, for those of you who are interested. But for the rest of us, just drop the script into the wp-content/plugins/ folder, then activate it in the “Plugins” section on your admin!
If you have any errors, comments, concerns, I please ask that you comment on this post to help out further development.
*edit*
It seems to appear there was an issue with variable scope in the plugin activation method, which was causing the table to not get created properly. There is a fix posted, so if you have downloaded the plugin prior to 7PM EDT on Thursday, April 17th, you may wish to download the plugin again.
So, I dinked around in the code a little, and found that the xml from wowhead changed a little, causing the plugin to stop working properly. I changed the values in the array strings a little, but I’m not satisfied with why this happened, so I’m going to release a true fix in a copy days, but for now a wrote a quick hotfix for it.
If it doesn’t work right away, you’ll need to flush the database entries. (I’ll get a quick howto up if you’re clueless on that in a little bit)
edit:
Scratch all of that, it needs to be rewritten… I’m working on it as I type this. :P
edit2:
Rewrote the search parse function, like I meant to do months ago. The xml part will come later, I’m feeling kinda hungry so I’m going to head home and work on another project I’ve been doing.
edit3:
The XML parser has been rewritten as well. I have a new version working on this blog, but I’m not satisfied with how I wrote the parser so far. It’ll most likely get rewritten before a public release.
I’ve yet to find any issues with the posts “freezing” if they have an item link. The only thing that I could think would cause that would be either a) an unclosed item link. (meaning [item] with no closing tag.) or b) something internal with wordpress’s plugin load order.
Any info on any outstanding issues anyone has would be superb. :D
(if you’d like to try new version, comment and i’ll email you a copy)
So, I noticed WP 2.5 is out. I’m going to upgrade later this week (more like the weekend). And I’ll try and get new versions of any plugins I have up and going.
So, the other day I wrote a nice little updated plugin I wrote to parse item tags to use wowhead’s site now! Why the sudden new script? Let’s just say some friendly encouragement… In the form of threatening… With a cudgel… Named Barney…
