1. Posted by richardCHEF on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:46:21

    Hi guys! im beginner in programming wow addons but not so in usual programming. i want to write a wow addon that collects the following information about the player whos playing and if posibble send those infos to an email address. //okey sounds weird and like a phising illegal addon but it is not and important to me because my brother and he's addiction. PLEASE HELP//

    so the infos that want to collect:

    the player's current level

    the player's current money /gold,silver,copp/

    the player's current profession(s) name(s) and level(s) /primary and secondary professions too/

    if the player has a mount the mount current level

    the time played on server / /played in chat window when you playing /

    the time when the player succesfuly logged into the game

    and when the player will log out also the the time

     

    so if the addon collects al those infos is it possible to write out a file of these and send to a webserver with php? THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!

  2. Posted by jnwhiteh on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:32:57

    Hi guys! im beginner in programming wow addons but not so in usual programming. i want to write a wow addon that collects the following information about the player whos playing and if posibble send those infos to an email address. //okey sounds weird and like a phising illegal addon but it is not and important to me because my brother and he's addiction. PLEASE HELP//

    If you would read the book, addons cannot do anythign like this.  Collecting the data is simple, and the book will show you how you can do that... but you would need to run a third party executable outside of the game, and that person would have to knowingly run that.  In short, this is a patently bad idea, so I suggest you not pursue it any further.

  3. Posted by morlando on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:46:21

    As Jim said, the only way for that to be possible is if you wrote an external program. WoW addons purposefully have no way of communicating directly with the outside world. In order to go about this legally, the program would have to upload the data after WoW was closed (the way thottbot and similar websites gather data). Doing something like that requires skills far beyond the scope of this book.