text based game help

[berry05]

hello I'm trying to make a text based game...can somebody give me some pointers on what kind of php codes i should use and how i should start it?

[trq]

Thats gotta be the most vague question Ive seen in a while.

 

Where exactly are you stuck?

[Maq]

Ummm...  What kind of game do you want to make?  Can you elaborate more, besides using the word text-based?  Give some details, like rules, objectives, etc...

[revraz]

You should use PHP 5 code and start it with <?PHP

[premiso]

You should use PHP 5 code and start it with <?PHP

 

I would also suggest using sessions, so add session_start after the <?php tag.

[Maq]

Some variables?

 

session_start();
$a = 1;
$b = 2;

[Brian W]

I'm building a non text based game, its click based. fun stuff there. *sigh

 

I suggest closing with  ?>

[berry05]

i'm trying to make it based off farming so people can buy seeds and plant them and when they do its timed for like lets say a day and then when its a day they get that crop...and they can harvest either 1-10 of that crop they planted..and they can buy animals and say they have a cow the cow gives off 2 jugs of milk a day....wouldn't i need cron jobs for that or something?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Don't forget to validate all external data that your code receives. It will cut down on cheating and hackers taking over your site.

[berry05]

ok thxs!

whats its called when i plant a crop and have to wait a day for it to be harvested...is that cron jobs or a timer?

so like every time i plant a crop i have to wait lets say a day...how do i make a script like that?

[bluesoul]

Yeah, you'd have a cron job to repopulate fields in your DB.  Or something like that.

[premiso]

Set a date in the database, then setup a cron job to run every x minutes, if that date has been reached do an update, if not than do not update.

[berry05]

Set a date in the database, then setup a cron job to run every x minutes, if that date has been reached do an update, if not than do not update.

 

mhm.....i'm going to have to google that one

[revraz]

You'll have to learn Javascript too, what you want to do won't really be possible in just PHP alone, at least not a very good one.