Ingame Wowhead (preview)

[Fadelol]

Looks great, don't have to play windowed mode anymore

[jakke2k7]

couldnt this also work with armory?
so you can lookup your arena enemys fast and check their gear?
just a thought,

[Numsu]

!!! That is awesome as!

EDIT: Will you be showing the comments that there are on WoWhead? and Quests?
GL with the project

There is already an addon which shows the comments on quests:

hxxp://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7017-LightHeaded.html

But its still nice to have an addon to search for items, if there is a feature to link them to chat and to dressing room.

[GG88811]

Hehe, at least the addon is on 4,31 KB so be happy.

Wow, that's really impressive. When I saw the title I immediately thought of LootLink/ItemSync, and how the more items you had in your database the more lag you got, eventually resulting in your game being a two fps slideshow. Can't wait for the release.

[Vladinator]

It connects remotely with a server that handles the requests. My only concern is that I would need to find a place to host my PHP-engine on that wouldn't overload or run out of bandwidth - At the moment it does store cache but only on hits, not the search query results.

About the armory question, yes that's a good idea. It's doable, just got to program the server to handle such requests and I can add a in-game slash command to query and get the response, hehe.

Here is a new teaser picture, updated the listing to display a bit more information about the results:



Rest of the functions you got to wait for, it can do more than search and list the results -be aware of that. :P

[rahburt33]

will definetly use this, faster than web browser lol

[Vladinator]

Small updates about the progress:
Added armory look-up support (EU and US), also trough /whois command.
Added cache system for most functions that downloads, saving some CPU there. :P
Finished item viewing, basically shows you what Wowhead shows you (the most important of course).

Started on NPC viewing, planing to add coordination into the pages too (for NPCs), and hopefully a way you can click on them and be able to copy them (no success yet tough, there are many limitations). ^^

[Numsu]

My god, I'm so gonna love you when you are finished. ^^

[Bareno]

Bookmarking this page and giving you +rep, I'll also give you moar rep when you actually post this ;D

[Vladinator]

Haha, thanks :P - Been working on this for 6 days now, I think it's coming along great. ^^

[Nugliar]

It connects remotely with a server that handles the requests. My only concern is that I would need to find a place to host my PHP-engine on that wouldn't overload or run out of bandwidth

ask wowhead if they can host your php stuff
its a addon for wowhead, maybe they want to work together with you

[Philx]

i gotta say if you have quests aswell as items it would be even better

[Bareno]

Any more progress on this? ready for an beta release or something like that? ;D

[Vladinator]

Released a build, gonna see how the serves handle the requests and find out if it gets too slow :P

[pachuco55]

Would it be possible to include the item id's found in the url of the item? Then private servers will love you too! If you want to be absolutely uber, have maybe a separate build that searches spells as well? I hate alt-tabbing to WoWHead just to look up a spell...

Anywho, great work on this addon! I'll definitely be using this.