New way to get character history

Post by **Rollie** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:31 pm

I'm still playing with it, but I've added the ability to reference character data by server and name, ala

http://www.warcraftrealms.com/char/Bloodscalp/Rollie

The old way still works too:

http://www.warcraftrealms.com/char/523520

I may further tinker with putting faction, race and class in the URL but haven't decided yet. Just an FYI to anyone who would be interested =)

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:08 pm

Ooh I like it

That makes it quicker to find people than searching the name and picking them out of the results. Will you do the same for guilds eventually as well? I guess spaces in names might make that tricker though

Ceto · Post by **Ceto** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:11 pm

Post by **Rollie** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:25 pm

Actually, I'm testing guilds atm too =)

http://www.warcraftrealms.com/guild/Bloodscalp/Quartex

Post by **Rollie** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:33 pm

Oh, and spaces should work just fine

http://www.warcraftrealms.com/guild/Blo ... ood%20Deed

Least when I type it into Firefox, it does it okay.

xpolockx · Post by **xpolockx** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:21 pm

This is exciting

Ceto · Post by **Ceto** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 7:17 am

Could you substitute underscores for spaces, or are underscores a valid character in guild names?

Skyfire · Post by **Skyfire** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:49 am

Wow.

Many thanks Rollie.

Post by **Rollie** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:12 am

Ceto wrote:Could you substitute underscores for spaces, or are underscores a valid character in guild names?

Hrm... not sure if underscores are allowed or not. But could substitute if so. Will look into it.

MoonStorm · Post by **MoonStorm** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:39 pm

I don't mind the old way, though the new way is quicker because you can go straight to it if you know char name n stuff

Post by **Rollie** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:41 pm

There is still the possible problem with name collisions so I may have to think on it a bit.

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:39 pm

I like it, and guildnames do indeed work - http://www.warcraftrealms.com/guild/EU- ... ry%20Heart

As for name collisions I already tried it on a couple of my characters that I'd deleted and remade, and it seems to default to the more recently seen/higher level one (not sure which as both my cases were the same) and that works well enough, as that's likely to be the one people want when they type it in.

Ceto · Post by **Ceto** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:44 pm

Balgair wrote:it seems to default to the more recently seen/higher level one (not sure which as both my cases were the same) and that works well enough, as that's likely to be the one people want when they type it in.

Seems to be most recent. I've had two characters on Burning Legion named Aestus, the newest of which has a lower level. Still, he shows up at the appropriate URL.

Post by **Rollie** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 2:22 pm

Yeah, I set it so it'll pick the 'latest' one.

Also, looks like there have been a couple of guilds with underscores, dunno if they are legit though:

http://www.warcraftrealms.com/guilds/947708
http://www.warcraftrealms.com/guilds/982911

Those are the only 2 in my DB with underscores though

Ceto · Post by **Ceto** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 2:51 pm

Lol, the first one is the bunny guild:

Post by **Rollie** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:04 pm

WyriHaximus · Post by **WyriHaximus** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:47 pm

Ceto wrote:Lol, the first one is the bunny guild:

I'm realy interested to get to know how they made that

!

oiseaux · Post by **oiseaux** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:29 am

haha that is funny! And it works for my guild as well. http://www.warcraftrealms.com/guild/Eme ... %20Phoenix

DM. · Post by **DM.** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:12 pm

Now if only this works:
http://www.warcraftrealms.com/profile/Silvermoon/Drazen

Post by **Rollie** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:44 pm

Hey, surprise surprise, it DOES work ;p

=)