WoW Server Status, 4.1

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Latest Version Released on August 15th, 2008

Realm Status Badge

This lightweight PHP script will parse Blizzard's XML feed and display realm status on your Guild's web page. The output can be configured as text/HTML, a dynamically generated image or as a PHP array.

During peak hours, Blizzard's website connection is often unreliable. This script solves that problem by caching the XML data and only checking for updates at definable intervals.

The latest version supports both US and European servers (except Russia, sorry comrades).

This script requires PHP 4.3 or greater and the PHP GD Library installed on your server (very common library).

To test if your server meets the requirements, upload the file server_test.php to any directory and run it from your browser. The script will let you know if your server is properly configured.
There are a few variables you can set from within the script. The majority of these variables can also be changed on the fly via $_GET or function calls. If you are changing any variables within the script, make sure to remain within the quotes.

I won't explain all of the variables, just a few noteworthy ones.
$display controls what the script outputs. full will display the larger badge, half will display the mini-badge, text will output plain text and none will return an array of the data within PHP.
$image_type dictates the type of image the script will output, png (default) or gif. Some older browsers do not support pngs.
Upload wow_ss.php and the wowss folder to your website. They don't need to be in the same directory.
The script can be executed in several ways. The simplest method is to call the script as an image from within any type of HTML page. Use the following code:
```
<img alt="WoW Realm Status" src="wow_ss.php" />
```
Using this method, you can control the various aspects of the script using $_GET without changing having change the hard-coded variables. $realm, $display (full | half), $region (us | eu), $update_timer (in minutes), $data_path and $img_type (png | gif).

For example, to output a mini-badge for the Ner'zhul server:
```
<img alt="WoW Realm Status" src="wow_ss.php?realm=Ner'zhul&display=half" />
```
Or to output the status for the European Ragnaros server, updating every 5 minutes in gif format:
```
<img alt="WoW Realm Status" src="wow_ss.php?realm=Ragnaros&region=eu&update_timer=5&img_type=gif" />
```
To include the script from within a PHP file, use the include_once(); and wow_ss(); to invoke the function. The wow_ss(); function takes the same variables as listed above. Within PHP, the $display can also ouput (text | none).
```
<?php

    include_once('wow_ss.php');
    wow_ss('Azgalor');

?>
```
Once you include the script, you can invoke the wow_ss(); as many times as you like. For example, to output the status of Medivh in text format:
```
wow_ss('Medivh','text');
```
To output the status of the European Blackrock server, updating every 15 minutes in png format:
```
wow_ss('Blackrock',0,'eu',15,0,'png');
```
Calling this script within a CMS (content management system) that has HTML blocks or modules should be simple. Just use the img code (demonstrated previously) as the block/module content. Every CMS system is different, but here is an example of a PHP-Nuke block.
```
<?php

if (eregi("block-wow_ss.php",$PHP_SELF)) { 
    header("Location: index.php");  
    die(); 
}

$content = '<div style="display: block; text-align: center; padding: 10px;">
<img alt="WoW Realm Status" src="wow_ss.php?realm=Azgalor" />
</div>';

?>
```

Article was last edited on Thursday, March 25th, 2010 @ 8:43 AM

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Version History

4.1 (08/08/14) - Changed the default Euro XML feed URL

4.0 (08/07/31) - Complete script rewrite, added function calls, Euro XML support. Error handling and header detection. Added GIF support

3.4 (06/04/10) - Small XML Change

3.3 (06/01/18) - Blizzard XML Supported - European servers not supported with version 3.3

3.2 (05/06/18) - German and French server status

3.1 (05/04/20) - Added (english) European server support

3.0 (05/04/20) - Added GD image library functions to generate an image based on server status, added caching to speed up script access, slightly improved error handling.

2.1 (05/04/18) - Fixed glaring PHP exit error

2.0 (05/04/18) - Rewrote most of the parser to accommodate Blizzard's changes, added error handling

2.2 (05/04/18) - Bah, Blizzard changes their HTML again, tiny fix

1.0 (04/12/08) - HTML Parser

Thanks mate, you did a great job !!!!

Cool

Great script, Finally got this working well in a PHP-Nuke block, if anyone needs info on this feel free to shot me a message.

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005 @ 2:24 PM

Many thanks for this wonderfully useful little script :) Just what I needed, and I stumbled across it while browsing the rest of your site!

Great job!!! I'm so glad you updated the skript! Thank you so much!

Saturday, September 13th, 2008 @ 8:13 PM

Thanks for updating the script! It works great, all the problems I have had and have are due to my own ignorance.

Druas the Elder Governor of Feralas

Hey great script. However, i am unable to get the status of the Europeian Server "Al'Akir".

Could someone help me out?

Alright great add-on; to bad I can't get it to work :( Server_test.php worked fine, but the server status is (?) and nays 'no status source'. No idea what to do anymore. US servers, if able to give any advice it's be nice.

Create new panel in Panel Management
incert in panel.

openside("insert servername"); ?> " //location of wow_server_status folder

-> James883 iside wow_ss.php you need to change the url for the EU server ex. ## $wowss['xml_url']='http://www.wow-europe.com/realmstatus/status.xml';

openside("Can I play ?"); ?>

Mine has been broken for some time now, and always displayed "No Status Source...". I've went over every variable with a fine tooth comb, and the server test was successful. Any ideas?

i am unable to get the status of the US Server "Mug'thol".

Could someone help me out?

I've made sure I have all the components necessary for this script to run, in addition to that, I ran the test script to be certain and it said that this script should be able to run on my page, however, whenever I implement the script onto the page I want it to show up on, I continue to get this "No Status Source" error, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, the instructions to implement this are a bit vague, I followed them to the letter, and still it's not working.

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 @ 1:50 AM

I'm also getting the same message, "No Status Source" I'm on EU - Ghostlands realm. Maybe another set of eye can spot a flaw i have overlooked. Here is a brake down of what my wow_ss.php looks like.

$wowss['realm'] = 'Ghostlands';

$wowss['display'] = 'full';

$wowss['region'] = 'eu';

$wowss['update_timer'] = '5';

$wowss['data_path'] = 'wowss';

$wowss['xml_url'] = 'http://www.wow-europe.com/realmstatus/index.xml';

Rest is default.

Regards, Brasserie

I asked my hosting company to take a look at the script for me and they found out what the problem was.

The path i entered for the $wowss['data_path'] =

Was incorrect. My new path is the following:

'/home/endlessf/public_html/wowss';

I hope this helps everyone out.

Regards, Brasserie

Hello there, i think i have found a bug. All Server there have ' in the Servername donst work's! I cant fix them whit: $wowss['realm'] = ("Gul'dan"); i have set: $wowss['xml_url'] = 'http://www.wow-europe.com/realmstatus/index.xml'; $wowss['eu_xml'] = 'http://www.wow-europe.com/realmstatus/index.xml'; an this: $wowss['display'] = "full"; $wowss['region'] = "eu"; $wowss['update_timer'] = "1"; $wowss['data_path'] = "wowss"; $wowss['image_type'] = "gif";

someone can help me pls?

Yes on EU servers for all the names with a "'" the informations are not retrieve properly.

The fix for the servers with a ' character in their name is simple, just add the following at line 60 $wowss['realm'] = str_replace("'","'",$wowss['realm']);

This replaces the ' character for the encoded version. That said, I suppose the best way would be to properly encode the server name but I was debugging the problem and the fix works, I'm lazy and I'm fairly confident a more elegant solution will be implemented if the author wishes to add it..

Wonderful script, thank you.

Can't get this script to work. My website is using Joomla version 1.5 and a friend is providing the host service. Server_test.php worked fine, but the server status is (?) . US servers, if able to give any advice it's be nice. Trying to get the status for Norgannon.

Tig, your fix is not working for me unfortunatly. Can you upload somewhere your script please. Maybe the caracteres in my .php file are not encode correctly.

Found it !

Just add the following at line 60 : $wowss['realm'] = str_replace("'","'",$wowss['realm']);

$wowss['realm'] = str_replace("'","& # 0 3 9;",$wowss['realm']);

& # 0 3 9; with no space

Nice script but i cant get it to work on EU Doomhammer. Got this error:

Doomhammer Unable to access remote XML file. Unable to access XML file.

Can someone help?

Thursday, September 17th, 2009 @ 12:38 PM

SomethingWrong is right, it's works now perfectly with my server name (Vol'jin)

I am also getting the Unable to access remote XML file. Unable to access XML file error message.

Please help.

I'm getting an error every time I try to display an image be it 'gif' or 'png'. If I set the display to text, everything works fine with no errors and the text displays my current realm's status. But when I set the display to full or half, i gives the the error: The image "http://sitename/guild/index.php" cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

I'm using to embed it into my site. All of the settings are changed within the wow_ss.php file.

Like I said before, everything seems to be working fine, it's getting the realm data, but just having trouble displaying the images for it. Do anyone have any ideas on what's going on?

**I'm using the php include script to embed it into my site.

Hi, In my web site it works with the region EU, but if the servant has one ' already it does not work, for example with EU's server Ghostland it works, with Shen'dralar not. Someone has some idea