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Oh My God, simplexml_load_file
March 12, 2007 5:12 pm
GDC writeup to come. In particular, I have a good rant brewing about this year’s game design challenge. Summary: “can’t you spend two fucking dollars to experiment with what you’re supposed to be designing?”
A reader points out that players have managed to crack open the WoW Armory’s sweet, sweet database — and it’s so obvious. They’re not processing the displayed data, like I said was impossible. They’re using PHP’s built-in XML processing functions, and the Armory makes those XML files available when you ask nicely. Holy shit.
Antiarc’s WoW Armory Guild Tools is extremely slick and open source, so you can see exactly how he did it. Which is very easily.
See also Thrissa’s Signature Generator, which demonstrates that those XML files have more data than the Armory site actually displays. It shows my druid’s leet 117 kills, while the official site won’t show until you have more than 1337.
I’m busy getting caught up at work after GDC and I’m also on a death march to level 58 in WoW, but I hope to have some time to look into the data myself pretty soon.
Scott wrote:
I dorked with it a bit this morning and couldn’t get simplexml_load_file to work with the wacky full-page XML generator I was pulling down. My code’s here if you want to bang on it further: http://www.brokentoys.org/temp/armory_test.txt
Blizzard REALLY needs to implement XML-RPC if they’re going to keep this up (which they should, it’s very cool), as otherwise data miners are going to pull 64k of extra data per character (not an exaggeration) which will add up very quickly…
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Steve wrote:
Your “like I said was impossible” link yields the Page Not Found page.
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