I am just starting into working on an addon to track where guild memebrs are on a server. The basic idea being you start up and it catches ZONE_CHANGED event and uploads this to a website. The result being a map which you can mouse over to find who else is near you if you want to group up, for instance.

Anyway, my main problem is the conneting to the site. I have come across LuaSocket but have been searching for some Addons that would implement a similar connection - any suggestions?

This does not work in the version of LUA integrated in WoW. The only possibility to affect anything outside WoW is the SavedVariables stuff.

So the only way would be to pass the info to an extranal program to upload?

Do i missunderstand you or are you looking for a real time tracking system ?

CU
Hannah

I think he is. Yes, as far as I know the only way is using an external program like UniUploader to upload the data, or upload the data to a web form manually.

Thats already being done by the roster, saving the last zone, its just not very useful.
Its not possible to extract real time data from wow as far as I know, its only written to the lua files when you actually close the wow client. (Its got something to do with protecting wow against botting I think ) Thats one of the reasons why first time users of character profiler complain that its not working, saying that the file doesnt exist, they simply forget to exit wow before trying to upload :-P

Usually, if you look at the zone name of where someone is you can make a pretty good guess of what he's doing anyway. (Uh, maybe I play the game a little too much)

Ah sweet - wasnt able to find anything that did it in despair

Cheers

In the first versions of wow there was a function to trigger a "lua-save-event"
but they removed it...