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This script can still be implemented, it just requires some major hackage to work on. I know MaNGOS is to be ultimately blizzlike and great, but, ItemGossip menus should be allowed without the majorly specific implementation of Gossip in the game right now (Gossip should work for items, gobjects, and creatures without having to have separate implementation for all three)

I know I can just add a table to a SD2 database and manipulate the contents of this table, and then crontab an external script to iterate the contents to pull this off, but I was hoping for a more event-based, solid solution. Basically, I want to query a web resource (SOAP if easiest, doesn't matter) from inside MaNGOS. For instance, if I gossip with a vendor, I might want to display some dynamic content from the web (that is produced as the result of an action), or, one of those vendor actions might trigger something on the website. This can be done via polling an SD2 'actions' type of a DB table (not the ideal way due to resource/general hackiness of it) I didn't know if there was another function I could use in game to make a simple HTTP request or otherwise... I've searched around, dug through the code to the best of my ability, and have found nothing.. any ideas or knowledge beyond simple iteration and polling of the DB would be quite helpful

I called the ClearMenus(); function upon the close of any menu.. this was a modification I did to the mangos core. It really should be in there by default anyway. so, upon closing the menu, call the ClearMenus(); function in the same script. cant think of the script name atm.

The EASIEST way to pull this off would be to include a simplified version of your existing account creation page for Mangos (provided it is in php) at the end of the PHPBB registration page. Start a new mysql connection with a unique identifier, and do all the queries using mysql_query from there (none of PHPBBs native database abstraction). Add similar code for password change. PHPBB uses MD5, IIRC Mangos is a strangely hashed SHA1. Instead of trying to merge the auth systems, leave them separate and do duplicate data (one registration in the PHPBB, one in the Mangos) Obviously there are things such as bans that need to be accounted for, but if someone really wanted to take the time, they could pull that off. I believe there is also a way to link tables in a MyISAM MySQL DB, so that certain fields are mirrored, (not a vanilla mysql thing)