The Prog language to interact with AH

[Magicux-wildhammer]

first off ill, im a novice programmer. i have experience with some programming languages.

i was looking at those pages wich there are a lot of wich scans the AH(Auction House), how do i access this AH server/realm, and how do i connect. etc real time search for items. lots of addons also do this. does anyone know ?.

[Trovlak-aggramar (Trovlak)]

Technical support is not really the right forum for this. Try the interfaces and addons forum.

However, the language is called Lua (not lua, or LUA, but Lua).

[Ketho-boulderfist (Ketho)]

https://wow.gamepedia.com/World_of_Warcraft_API#Auction_House

[Magicux-wildhammer]

thanks for the reply ill look more into it :). now that i havea clue

[Drûx-kazzak]

Five years ago I started learning Lua and found it difficult to understand. I went to University and did a 3 year Game Development degree which involved mostly C++ and DirectX. Now I am trying to learn Lua again it seems a piece of cake compared to what I did at Uni

I recommend a book called “World of Warcraft programming” by James Whitehead and Rick Roe. It is available on Amazon (sorry i cant post links yet)

It was written during WOTLK and is a bit dated now but with classic coming soon, most of it is still relevant. As mentioned above the two main languages are Lua and XML. Dr Brian Burton’s learning lua guides on Youtube are great for beginners. Just search Youtube for “Dr brian burton lua”

As Classic approaches, there are already plenty of ad-dons that where created during vanilla, but must of these will be broken with 1.13 so developers will be in high demand to fix bugs, so get learning and good luck!