hacky script to update quest categories from wowhead JS

cron/quest_cats.php

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+<?
+	include(dirname(__FILE__).'/../include/init.php');
+
+	#
+	# fetch JS file
+	#
+
+	$url = escapeshellarg('http://wowjs.zamimg.com/js/locale_enus.js?'.time());
+	$data = shell_exec("wget -q -O - $url");
+
+
+	#
+	# parse it out into variable assignments
+	#
+
+	$all = array();
+	$chunks = explode('var ', $data);
+	foreach ($chunks as $chunk){
+		$chunk = preg_replace('!;\s*!', '', $chunk);
+		list($name, $json) = explode('=', $chunk, 2);
+		$all[$name] = $json;
+	}
+
+
+	#
+	# reformat JSON to be valid
+	#
+
+	$json = $all['mn_quests'];
+	$json = str_replace(',,', ',0,', $json);
+	$json = str_replace('[,', '[0,', $json);
+
+	$obj = JSON_decode($json);
+
+
+	#
+	# extract flat list of categories
+	#
+
+	$out = array();
+
+	foreach ($obj as $cat){
+
+		if (is_array($cat[3]) && count($cat[3])){
+
+			$sub_cats = array();
+			foreach ($cat[3] as $sub){
+				$sub_cats[$sub[0]] = $sub[1];
+			}
+
+			$out[$cat[1]] = $sub_cats;
+		}
+	}
+
+
+	#
+	# insert into DB
+	#
+
+	db_query("DELETE FROM guild_quests_cats");
+	$order = 1;
+	foreach ($out as $cat => $rows){
+		foreach ($rows as $id => $name){
+
+			db_insert('guild_quests_cats', array(
+				'id'		=> intval($id),
+				'name'		=> AddSlashes($name),
+				'cat_name'	=> AddSlashes($cat),
+				'in_order'	=> $order,
+			));
+
+			$order++;
+		}
+	}
+
+	$num = count($out);
+	echo "Inserted $num cats\n";
+
+
+?>