Cool downs with PHP?

[Xyphon]

How would you make it so that a move has a cool down?

 

Like, after you use a move it takes a certain ammount of turns to use it again.

 

How would I go about doing this?

[npsari]

Are you talking about a while loop

 

You mean how can it pass some turns then do something

[Xyphon]

Kind of, but I don't mean you use it, wait turns, and then it does something. I mean you use it, and it does something on the turn you use it.

 

And then, you have to wait like 3 turns for example until you can use it again.

[The Little Guy]

a database?

[Prismatic]

Record the total number of moves made

 

Then when a move is made that you wish to have locked out for a certain number of moves, save it along with the current total number of moves, then do something similar to below

 

<?php

$total_moves = 1234;
$locked_move = 1231;

$move_diff = $total_moves - $locked_move;
if($move_diff < 3)
{
    echo "Sorry, you need to make 3 moves before you can use this move";
}
else
{
    echo "Using move";
}

?>

[haku]

You are going to need a database where you can store counters. Increment the counter on each turn.

[revraz]

I think you want to use Javascript for this, because I assume you want it to be active when the timer expires and not have to reload.