Made this plugin for someone that requested here on the boards.
But I figured I'd properly release it over here too.

This plugin allows you to search vhabot's central items database from ingame.
This database is located at a remote location and won't require installing or updating on your side.
It supports searching for specific QL's and will display the item icon.
At the top there are several configuration settings you can change to suit it more to your liking

Preview of the output:


<?
/*
 * Central Items Database v1.1, By Vhab
 * Latest version can always be found at: http://bebot.link/index.php/topic,380.0.html
 * Details about the database itself: http://aodevs.com/index.php/topic,84.0.html
 */
$VhItems = new VhItems($bot);

$commands["tell"]["items"] = &$VhItems;
$commands["pgmsg"]["items"] = &$VhItems;
$commands["gc"]["items"] = &$VhItems;

class VhItems
{
var $icons = 'true';
var $color_header = 'DFDF00';
var $color_highlight = '97BE37';
var $color_normal = 'CCF0AD';
var $server = 'http://items.vhabot.net/';
var $max = 50;

var $bot;
function VhItems (&$bot)
{
$this->bot = &$bot;
}
function tell($name, $msg)
{
$this->bot->send_tell($name, $this->process_command($name, $msg));
}
function pgmsg($name, $msg)
{
$this->bot->send_pgroup($this->process_command($name, $msg));
}

function gc($name, $msg)
{
$this->bot->send_gc($this->process_command($name, $msg));
}

function process_command($name, $msg)
{
if (preg_match('/^'.$this->bot->commpre.'items/i', $msg, $info)) {
$words = trim(substr($msg, strlen($this->bot->commpre.'items')));
if (!empty($words)) {
$parts = explode(' ', $words);
if (count($parts) > 1 && is_numeric($parts[0])) {
$ql = $parts[0];
unset($parts[0]);
$search = implode(' ', $parts);
} else {
$ql = 0;
$search = $words;
}
$url  = $this->server;
$url .= '?bot=BeBot';
$url .= '&output=aoml';
$url .= '&max='.$this->max;
$url .= '&search='.urlencode($search);
$url .= '&ql='.$ql;
$url .= '&icons='.$this->icons;
if ($this->color_header)
$url .= '&color_header='.$this->color_header;
if ($this->color_highlight)
$url .= '&color_highlight='.$this->color_highlight;
if ($this->color_normal)
$url .= '&color_normal='.$this->color_normal;

$result = file_get_contents($url);
if (!empty($result))
return $result;
else
return "Unable to query database";
} else {
return "Usage: items [quality] [item]";
}
} else {
$this -> bot -> send_help($name);
}
}
}
?>

Yeah, looks great.

*shakes fist at the select few who took credit for "making" that plugin*

Oddly, this module won't work properly with PHP 5.1.4.

The " 4 items found -Click here- " gets displayed, but nothing is showed inside the blob.

Any ideas what needs to be fixed? I can't find anything as to what's wrong with it.

Using it on php 5.1.4 here and no issues.

looks like your DB doesn't have Shade spirits, can someone confirm this?

It has symbiants. not having implants is intended because it's huge spam. half the entries in the entire database are implants.
I'll look into spirits.

Updated the database to 17.0.0_EP1
Updated the plugin to v1.1

Changelog:
- New URL for the central database
- Added several settings to configure the output
- Made the default colors more like most BeBot plugins to be better suited as official plugin.

Any chance of getting an SQL of the new items?

Nope sorry.
1. i updated the db completely using a new dump (last dump has some issues so no incremental changes this time). so don't have track of the changes
2. it's a huge db spread over different tables (not a tiny db like the sql items module has)
3. it took me quite alot of work to put together the db and get various scripts to work together outputs from different tools and run fixes on that output, i prefer to make all that work available just through the central db.