How to Call character info for web developers?

[Coldfire]

Had some free time and put together some code to fetch the data http://pastebin.com/6y7VtjDu
It's written in ASP.NET and not very pretty :P
As usual with stuff like this I'm not responsible if it blows up your server, but you are free to use, alter and distribute it.

[alexi14]

I know like 0 c# though. Is it possible to give me an example in PHP? I can get the scraping part myself, but I don't understand how to go from a Character Name and server to a ID number that the website uses.

[Coldfire]

You will have to use the lodestone character search for that. The ID is in the link to the character's subpages. I think sites like ffxivpro just scan through all the numbers to get all character data. But if you only need it for a small group of people or even just for yourself you can use the lodestone search and copy the IDs from there. Beware though that if you are logged in there will be no ID for your own page shown in the address.