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seamaf (New Admin) 10/7/2010 6:03 PM EST : Suicide Kings loot system link
seamaf
Posts: 22
Becoming Adept!
Hey guys. I just created a guild portal website. Ive been using dkpsystem.com for a while now, however, after seeing what I can do with Guild Portal, I am eager to make the switch.

There is only 2 things on my mind right now that I seem to be having now. On Dkpsystem.com they had an import for Suicide Kings that would look at the LUA script and create a list of all the names on a page. Is there something similar I can do here to make the list available online? Also It seems as though HTML is not enabled for certain links on my site (for instance a donate button to help with site costs to paypal)

These are basically the only things hindering me from making a complete switch over to Guild Portal. Im hoping its something I can do or that is within my power because I would love to use this site instead of dkpsystem.

Thanks
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Mottie (MVP) 10/7/2010 9:27 PM EST : RE: Suicide Kings loot system link
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Mottie
Posts: 3873
Zomgawsh Poster
Hi Seamaf!

I actually had the files to display the Suicide Kings ranking but forgot to write up a post about it... so here you go.
Add Suicide Kings Data to your site

The Suicide Kings addon for World of Warcraft (WoW) outputs a lua file which can be parsed and displayed by this script. Four columns (Weapon/Trinket, Accessories, Armor & Tier) of names are displayed in rank order.



Setup
  • Overall Information
    To make this work for your guild sitem you will have to download the necessary files, modify then upload them to your site. Once everything is in place, all you will need to do is upload the latest "SuicideKings.lua" file from your "World of Warcraft/WTF/Account/{account name}/SavedVariables" folder.

  • Download the Files
    Download and extract the necessary files from the SuicideKings.zip file.
    If you don't have a way to extract zipped files, then grab my demo files: SuicideKings.htm, suicideKings.min.js, sk-dark.css and sk-light.css.


  • Step-by-step instructions:

    1. Download the SuicideKings.zip file (links above).
    2. Extract the folder contained within to your desktop.
    3. Copy your "SuicideKings.lua" file from your "World of Warcraft/WTF/Account/{account name}/SavedVariables" folder to your SuicideKings folder on your desktop along with the other files you just downloaded - be sure to replace the lua file that was inside the zip file.
    4. Open the "SuicideKing.htm" file in your browser to see the results.
    5. Now open the SuicideKing.htm file in a non-rich text editor (e.g. notepad). You will find the following script:
      6. var fix = [];
      fix['Æpic'] = 'mage';
      fix['Skeetles'] = 'druid';

      $('#sKings').suicideKings({
       skFile      : "SuicideKings.lua",
       ranksToShow : 60,
       fixClass    : fix
      });
    6. If you see any character names in grey, this means the lua file doesn't know what class they are. So you can permanently add a reference using the fix variable. Simply follow this format:
      fix['character name'] = 'class';
      You can replace the two examples.

    7. If you need to change the name of the "SuicideKings.lua" file, then replace the name in orange.

    8. To change how many rows (ranks) to display, adjust the ranksToShow value in red.

    9. Now you can change the style of the list. By default it is set to "sk-dark.css" at the top of the "SuicideKings.htm" file. If you want to change it to the light style, change the file to "sk-light.css" or load either one of these files into your text editor and modify the colors yourself:
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="sk-dark.css" type="text/css" />
    10. Last thing to do is to upload all of these files to your GuildPortal file area.

      • Go to Control Panel > General Settings & Tools > File Manager.
      • Click [ Upload File(s) ].
      • Click [ Select ] to open the file selector and pick each file: SuicideKings.htm, SuicideKings.lua, suicideKings.min.js & sk-####.css (or your custom css file).
      • Click [ Add ] to add more select buttons.
      • When done, click [ Upload ].
      • Once the files have uploaded, find and click on the "SuicideKings.htm" file to open it in the browser to make sure it works.
      • Keep the "SuicideKings.htm" file open in your browser, for now.

    11. Now add a Free Form Text/HTML type widget to your site (Control Panel > Pages & Content > {pick a page} > Add Widget tab).

      • Title: Suicide Kings (or whatever)
      • Type of Widget: Free Form Text/HTML
      • Location on Page: Center of Page (preferred location)

    12. Click "Edit" inside the newly added widget.

    13. Switch the editor to <>HTML mode

    14. Copy (Ctrl-C) the following HTML and paste (Ctrl-V) it into the widget editor:

      <iframe width="570" height="500" src="http://www.axiomfiles.com/Files/######/SuicideKings.htm" scrolling="auto" frameborder="0" align="top" allowtransparency="true"></iframe>

    15. Find the url of your "SuicideKings.htm" file and replace the url of the iframe (in orange)

    16. Adjust the height & width of the iframe (in red) to match your site (you can use percentages).

    17. Once done, click [ Save ].

    18. Reload your page and check your outcome. Edit and adjust the iframe as desired.
Updating
  1. Open up your GP File Manager (Control Panel > General Settings & Tools > File Manager).
  2. Click the [Upload File(s)] button.
  3. Click [Select].
  4. Now find the latest copy of your "SuicideKings.lua" in your WoW SavedVariables folder (World of Warcraft/WTF/Account/{account name}/SavedVariables), then click [Open]
  5. Click [Upload].
  6. Reload the page on your site with your Suicide Kings data.
>>help-site<<
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Decklebury (New Admin) 11/10/2011 1:07 PM EST : RE: Suicide Kings loot system link

Decklebury
Posts: 10
Getting Started!
Is there one of these for Rift also? We were using SK on "the other site" and it was working well. Any way to import it from there to here?

Rift(aka-Decklebury)
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Mottie (MVP) 11/10/2011 3:15 PM EST : RE: Suicide Kings loot system link
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Mottie
Posts: 3873
Zomgawsh Poster
Hi Decklebury!

I have no idea about Rift addons, but if you provide me with an output file/data I'll see what I can do.
>>help-site<<
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Decklebury (New Admin) 11/10/2011 7:10 PM EST : RE: Suicide Kings loot system link

Decklebury
Posts: 10
Getting Started!
Okay, thank you very much for the rapid response! I did find this SKAddon and I think that we have the data that we can plug into a spreadsheet easy enuff, I didnt know if there was anything already on GP that we could use in place of the DKP. we wanted to stay with SK list as it works really really well for us. I dont have any current data that i can forward, at least atm, but i will look into what i can send from the other site, i think thats the only data we had.

Thanks again!
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