can someone tel me when i log into yg site... where on teh home page am i supposed to go to contact whoever it is for an xml password.  i dont see anything about contacting anyone or requesting anything

Register and login on the YG site, once that's done click your name at the top right, then Age of Conan to show:

Age of Conan Settings

You can request access to our AoC database's XML System here..

That will get you the access...


And the info on their site:

If you do not have a password yet and wish to request one please create a YG Member account if you do not already have one and go to the Age of Conan tab under the My Account section and click the Request Access button.

everything has been working a for over a year now til today, yg has some changes on their site..

[11-Dec-2010 22:05:13] PHP Warning:  simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found in /srv/d_WH446-GANDI/home/BeBot/custom/modules/yg.php on line 86
[11-Dec-2010 22:05:13] PHP Warning:  simplexml_load_string(): Resource temporarily unavailable in /srv/d_WH446-GANDI/home/BeBot/custom/modules/yg.php on line 86
[11-Dec-2010 22:05:13] PHP Warning:  simplexml_load_string(): ^ in /srv/d_WH446-GANDI/home/BeBot/custom/modules/yg.php on line 86
[11-Dec-2010 22:09:10] PHP Warning:  simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found in /srv/d_WH446-GANDI/home/BeBot/custom/modules/yg.php on line 86
[11-Dec-2010 22:09:10] PHP Warning:  simplexml_load_string(): Resource temporarily unavailable in /srv/d_WH446-GANDI/home/BeBot/custom/modules/yg.php on line 86
[11-Dec-2010 22:09:10] PHP Warning:  simplexml_load_string(): ^ in /srv/d_WH446-GANDI/home/BeBot/custom/modules/yg.php on line 86
[11-Dec-2010 22:09:32] PHP Warning:  simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found in /srv/d_WH446-GANDI/home/BeBot/custom/modules/yg.php on line 86
[11-Dec-2010 22:09:32] PHP Warning:  simplexml_load_string(): Resource temporarily unavailable in /srv/d_WH446-GANDI/home/BeBot/custom/modules/yg.php on line 86
[11-Dec-2010 22:09:32] PHP Warning:  simplexml_load_string(): ^ in /srv/d_WH446-GANDI/home/BeBot/custom/modules/yg.php on line 86
[11-Dec-2010 22:12:40] PHP Warning:  simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found in /srv/d_WH446-GANDI/home/BeBot/custom/modules/yg.php on line 86
[11-Dec-2010 22:12:40] PHP Warning:  simplexml_load_string(): Resource temporarily unavailable in /srv/d_WH446-GANDI/home/BeBot/custom/modules/yg.php on line 86
[11-Dec-2010 22:12:40] PHP Warning:  simplexml_load_string(): ^ in /srv/d_WH446-GANDI/home/BeBot/custom/modules/yg.php on line 86
[11-Dec-2010 22:19:58] PHP Warning:  simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found in /srv/d_WH446-GANDI/home/BeBot/custom/modules/yg.php on line 86
[11-Dec-2010 22:19:58] PHP Warning:  simplexml_load_string(): Resource temporarily unavailable in /srv/d_WH446-GANDI/home/BeBot/custom/modules/yg.php on line 86
[11-Dec-2010 22:19:58] PHP Warning:  simplexml_load_string(): ^ in /srv/d_WH446-GANDI/home/BeBot/custom/modules/yg.php on line 86
I think they are having issues with their site and profile lookups directly

on Line 84 where it says:
            $ch = curl_init ("http://aoc.yg.com/profilexml?n=$profilename&srv=$servername&pwd=$password");

Change this to
            $ch = curl_init ("http://aoc.yg.com/de/profilexml?n=$profilename&srv=$servername&pwd=$password");

And do the same on line 91

I didn't test this in the module but was able to get a German profile of myself by hitting:
http://aoc.yg.com/de/profilexml?n=Yite&srv=crom&pwd=XXXXXXXX

<level>80</level>
<server>Crom (PvE) EU</server>
<serverid>9</serverid>
<race>Stygier</race>
<class>Nekromant (Magier)</class>
<gender>Weiblich</gender>

Hi

german language works but it is possible to take the german special chars?

lowcase: ä, ö, ü, ß
uppercase: Ä, Ö, Ü

see the pic below

I wouldn't know how to fix this, the data pulled down from YG definately has the right characters in it (for example Gürtel)but I guess a charset value of some sort is needed to properly format it. Do other modules that support German show the proper characters (for examples if with Getrix' item db you do a !list Gürtel are the results displayed correctly)?

Right, I found the cause of the problem which is the simplexml_load_string.

A google search turned up the following:

This looks SimpleXML is creating a UTF-8 string, which is then rendered in ISO-8859-1 (latin-1) or something close like CP-1252.

When you save the result to a file and serve that file via a web server, the browser will use the encoding declared in the file.

Including in a web page
Since your web page encoding is not UTF-8, you need to convert the string to whatever encoding you are using, eg ISO-8859-1 (latin-1).

This is easily done with iconv():

    $xmlout = iconv('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT', $xmlout);

Saving to database
You database column is not using UTF-8 collation, so you should use iconv to convert the string to the charset that your database uses.

Assuming your database collation is the same as the encoding that you render in, you will not have to do anything when reading from the database.

Explanation
In UTF-8, a 0xc2 prefix byte is used to access the top half of the "Latin-1 Supplement" block which includes characters such as accented letters, currency symbols, fractions, superscript 2 and 3, the copyright and registered trademark symbols, and the non-breaking space.

However in ISO-8859-1, the byte 0xC2 represents an Â. So when your UTF-8 string is misinterpreted as one of those, then you get  followed by some other nonsense character.

Which hopefully will help some of the more experienced coders here to fix your issue