Casts a spell specified by name (optionally on a specified unit). Only protected (i.e. usable only by the Blizzard UI) if the given spell is castable (not passive) and is not a trade skill; can be used by addons to cast the "spells" that open trade skill windows.
See also Spell functions.
Signature:
CastSpellByName("name"
[,
"target"])
Arguments:
name
- Name of a spell to cast (string
)target
- A unit to target with the spell (string
, unitID)
This function is protected and can only be called by the Blizzard user interface