NDKP addon vs site

[Zellski]

Hi folks,

I've been playing a bit with the demo site as well as with the add-on. As far as I can tell, these are two independent projects whose only common component is the NDKP evaluation of an item?

Thus, the addon tracks attendance in the form of # of raids/player and DKP / player... and the site on the other hand tracks much more, but requires lots of manual data entry? Would this be correct?

It seems to me that it'd be immensely useful if the PHP code could generate a .lua file for the addon, and/or accept a .lua file to assist with the data entry? Or is this over-engineering the problem? Maybe the manual data entry isn't a big deal?

[Tivoli]

The 2 items are actually both part of the same project, there is actually an exe file we use that pulls the data from the site, saves it as a file so you can view all your data in game, which makes admin TONS easier since you dont' have to alt tab, or even track who wants an item, you announce which item, everyone sends !bid or !down and it puts them on the list for you to view.

[Zorat]

Are you planning to release this exe?

[Shield]

I had a .exe in my download.

Essentially you have to manually enter raids, and attendance via the site. Then when running wow you run the .exe instead and put www.mysite.com/ndkp/ or whatever path to your ndkp directory in the website and click the update button? Which will take the data from the site and make it viewable in game?

But you can't add/subtract dkp/attendance in game and have it update to the site?

[Tivoli]

Yes, you should have a Nurfed_DKP.zip file in the .tar file you downloaded, unzip this to your AddOns directory in your World of Warcraft install.

The path you have to enter is http://www.yoursite.com/ndkp/updateaddon.php

Currently there is no option to subtract/add any values in game with the AddOn.

[Zorat]

Ahhhhh crap I see it now. My bad! Sorry, gotta go get myself another coffee.

[Zorat]

Now what do you figure the best way to populate the web portion of the database would be if you have been using the in game addon and have a lua file containing all the players?

It looks to me like the only viable way to do it is to easy is for me to hack the 'Add Player' script to have another field to set thier DKP initially....