My apologies to all of you out there who might have been using my D&D Item list, I've just fallen way behind and haven't had time to get it back up to date.
In the meantime, though, I've gotten sucked into the world of Dragon Quest IX on my DS Lite, and one thing that bugged the crap out of me was having all this stuff in my inventory, but no really quick and easy way to know what I could make with it, or what else I might need to make something really cool.
So, I built the utilities that I'm hosting on my HolyElvis site that allow you to do just that - either see what you can make with your inventory, or search for the recipe for a specific item.
It let me exercise some newfound jquery muscles, and uses a lot of in-page callbacks rather than postbacks, and I'm pretty happy with the final product. The usage is really simple - just start typing something that exists in the game in one of the fields, and the AutoComplete will search the database for that item. From the drop-down list, click the item you want and it will either be added to your virtual inventory, or it will be search for a known recipe.
I would give great credit to the database of items, but I honestly can't recall where I pulled the data from exactly, so my apologies to whomever created it. My google-fu fails me, since I can't find the exact page from which the data was originally pulled. There was a good amount of SQL magic used in transforming it into lookup data, though.
Feel free to take a look at it, and let me know if you like it...or hate it.
In the meantime, though, I've gotten sucked into the world of Dragon Quest IX on my DS Lite, and one thing that bugged the crap out of me was having all this stuff in my inventory, but no really quick and easy way to know what I could make with it, or what else I might need to make something really cool.
So, I built the utilities that I'm hosting on my HolyElvis site that allow you to do just that - either see what you can make with your inventory, or search for the recipe for a specific item.
It let me exercise some newfound jquery muscles, and uses a lot of in-page callbacks rather than postbacks, and I'm pretty happy with the final product. The usage is really simple - just start typing something that exists in the game in one of the fields, and the AutoComplete will search the database for that item. From the drop-down list, click the item you want and it will either be added to your virtual inventory, or it will be search for a known recipe.
I would give great credit to the database of items, but I honestly can't recall where I pulled the data from exactly, so my apologies to whomever created it. My google-fu fails me, since I can't find the exact page from which the data was originally pulled. There was a good amount of SQL magic used in transforming it into lookup data, though.
Feel free to take a look at it, and let me know if you like it...or hate it.
