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WoW Realm Status Module

Attention: Currently the blizzard sites for World of Warcraft where redesigned and a feed with status Information is not yet available. The Module will be updated as soon as a feed will be available, or I will find a way to parse the Information from
the site itself.

This module displays the realm status informations parsed from the realm status XML delivered by Blizzard.
As the delivered xml data for European and US realms is not the same it is important that you pick the right Location!

Included features so far ...


Works for EU and US "World of Warcraft" realms.
can display name,status(up/down),realm type, language
languages supported so far:englishgermanspanishfrenchrussian
Added error handling
New in v1.3 - Option to display realm maintenance informations
New in v1.4 - maintenance informations are now shown in users local language (only wow-europe has different languages so far I guess)
New in v1.5.5 - altered error handling
Added russian translation and also added missing initialization of some other languages. (only effected the backend)


ToDo


Include parameters to switch between text or image ouput
re-code the "stand alone" version
more templates


Requirement:
This needs cURL installed/activated
as a webserver module on your server.


Participation ...
If you feel you can contribute to this Module with code, localization, ideas than please contact me.

Credits:

French translation by: Rémi Poulie - Ramlos (Thorium|EU)
Spanish translation by: Sergio muñoz Peña
Russian translation by: Romique

Please rate and review this module. This is a free module and such feedback is kind of a small loan for the time and work a developer put into such module.

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Reviews (3)
Review
★★★★★
AWESOME!
2010-06-29
Reviews: 1
I am SOOOOO glad someone made a WORKING Realm Status extension! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! Seriously, awesome! Was easy to setup, worked first run out, previous poster that had issues should've tried it for more than 30 seconds because in the 33 seconds it took me to install, retitle, add in the realm name, and save the settings - it worked.
Owner's reply

Thank you for your review. With such user experience in mind I decided back in time to do this as a module for the community instead of just a solution for our realm community or my guild.

regards,

jackprince

★★★★★
Nice!
2010-04-10
Reviews: 1
This works great, looks good, is easy to use and install, very intuitive!
★★★
Would've rated higher but...
2010-02-10
Reviews: 4
There doesn't seem to be any error-handling with this module. It works when Blizzard is 100% up. However, if anything goes wrong at Blizzard, this module will actually crash hard enough to prevent your site from being seen by the public. Luckily the admin area was accessible and I could disable this module.

The fix would be to display a "?" or something similar if the module has trouble communicating with Blizzard or if an unexpected error comes up.
Owner's reply

I'm kind of sad that you rate the module before contacting me.
This is a temporary issue which will be fixed within 2-3 days from now. Your rating is now set to 3 stars whether the error is fixed or not.

I'll understand that an error can be very annoying but it is also very annoying if you put a lot of your into such projects and people react like this.

Anyway, this error was caused by the new way blizzard handles maintenance. Instead of being not available as hole,
a site is there and some content is delivered. This caused the module to throw errors cause it tried to parse the delivered content.

I implement a fix that stops on errors and displays a message that the blizz servers a most likely in maintenance.

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