Adding an Allakhazam tooltip script

This information is from the tooltip page on Allakhazam. It allows you to have tooltips for Everquest, Everquest II*, Final Fantasy XI, Lord of the Rings Online, Warhammer Online and World of Warcraft.

Paid site
It would be easiest to add this line into your Banner Area (Control Panel > Custom Code > Banner HTML)

*for EQ2, use this line instead:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://common.zam.com/shared/zampower.js"></script>

Free site/Paid site
Since it appears (or maybe it's just me) that you can't get to the footer from the "Style & Colors" link anymore, it might be better to add this line into the Custom jQuery Code box (Control Panel > Custom Code > Custom JQuery). Add the code in blue into the appropriate boxes, check the Enabled box, then Save:

• Document.Ready Event Code:
  return
  
  
• Functions:
  </script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://common.allakhazam.com/shared/akztooltip.js">
  
  *for EQ2, use this line instead:
  
  </script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://common.zam.com/shared/zampower.js">
  

*WARNING* There must be code in both the "Document.Ready Event Code" and "Functions" boxes or you will get a blank page when you reload. And yes, the script in the functions box looks reversed, but that's the way to get it to work properly.

How to make the links work

The script looks for the url in the href part of the link, so make sure that the link is correct.

• Find the item on Allakhazam that you want to link
• Copy (Ctrl-C) the URL from the browser and paste it into your forum post or content box editor
  
• Copy (Ctrl-C) the code below and paste it into your forum post or content box editor
  
  <a href="http://war.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?waritem=402307">Purloined Gown</a>
  
  
• Replace the code in orange with the URL of the item you just saved
  
• Replace the code in green with the name of the item
• Save the forum post or content box data.
  

From here the script adds the tooltip, so there's nothing else you need to do.

Edit (2/27/2009): Updated Control Panel paths
Edit (5/22/2009): Added the new script for EQ2, since ZAM has partnered with Allakhazam

Hi Draylor!

I just tested adding the script into the banner & footer area and it worked fine for me. Did you add the script while in HTML mode ()?

Mottie,
    Actually, I may have figured this out (Although don't fully understand why it didn't work) - I noticed when looking at the Footer under Advanced Style Settings, which doesn't have the <>, that there was a required line : $block[boilerplate] - once I put this in and added the first line of code, my page opened fine & the pop up to Allakazham's site worked.

   I don't fully understand why it wouldn't work in the Banner area, as I don't see a required code, only optional. Like I was saying above though, I have my banner line in Site Element Styles > Banner - which is the 'template' area - and didn't add anything except the code for pop-up under Advanced  Style Settings. Maybe it had issues attempting to use both of them /shrug.

~Draylor 

Hi Eochain!

Did you try adding the script into the jQuery code box? I still have no idea why it's not working properly in the header HTML and with the new control panel change, the footer HTML isn't the same Footer area to add code - it acts weird with anything other than HTML.

*NOTE* The Footer where I told everyone to add javascript code is not accessible anymore. I've submitted a ticket about it and hopefully we'll get access to it back.... just so you all remember, that was the area that required you to add "$block[boilerplate]"

Hi Eochain!

Thanks for pointing out that mistake! Because the misspelling of "guardian" in the icon name was bugging me, I renamed the image on photobucket, but forgot to update the forum posts LOL. Oh well, glad you caught it