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Development => Coding and development discussion => Topic started by: lulifuz on August 29, 2007, 05:54:01 pm

Title: How to get character name from char-ID?
Post by: lulifuz on August 29, 2007, 05:54:01 pm

Hi there,

in my guestlist only the char-IDs are stored (for what reason ever).
Is there a way to retrive the char name?
I have tried the get_uname function from AOChat.php but most of the time I get a -1 returned.
Does somebody have an idea about this or is there any other way to get the name?

Thank you all.

Regards,

 Lulifuz

Title: Re: How to get character name from char-ID?
Post by: Alreadythere on August 29, 2007, 07:28:31 pm

There are only two ways to get character names out of IDs:

• Use the get_uname() - but this will only work if the ID is of a character on the buddy list. It may work for characters that were checked via get_uid() since the last time the bot was started, but not 100% sure here.
• Use some database of IDs that got the name. A modern and updated whois cache may work, but anything else too.

If none of that is available there sadly is no way that I know of.

Title: Re: How to get character name from char-ID?
Post by: lulifuz on August 29, 2007, 10:24:03 pm

Thanks Alreadythere.
If there was some online cache you would have mentioned it, I assume.
I was hoping there was a connection like with the org ID on the FC website.
Maybe I can make a list of the 'most likely' candidates and try my luck.

Regards,

 lulifuz

Title: Re: How to get character name from char-ID?
Post by: Alreadythere on August 30, 2007, 01:12:07 am

get_uid() calls are fairly cheap, so if you can narrow it down a bit make a list of character names, put them into some table, and just look all the ids up.