Adding gold every minute???!!!!!!

[Thauwa]

Is this possible?

I have an making a game. What I have seen in manyn online games is that resources are added every minute to the stock. So, any suggestions as to how I could do this?

[jackpf]

Cron job

[nadeemshafi9]

cronjob - good option

ajax - ok option gives you direct controle throgh a browser

 

process  - dosent need to be cronned will run as a demon this can be done in the cronjob or started manualy to run forver will be good on saving resources

create a file call it resourcesadd.php then sudo php resourcesadd.php in cmd  execute it on the server and then just leave it running

while(1){

    sleep((1000*60));

    //add resources

}

 

you can use a web site page to start and kiill this process or start and kill a cron job

[MiCR0]

nah best way to do that is the following on every user.

 

Time of last update

get Time Now, work out how many mins have passed from last update.

If greater then 1 min change last update to time now.

Give what ever resources * mins passed.

[Axeia]

Both ajax and on page request (basically the same thing) would require at least one player at all times.

Even worse on page request you'd need to have one person visiting a page every minute.

 

So yeah, cronjob

[nadeemshafi9]

Both ajax and on page request (basically the same thing) would require at least one player at all times.

Even worse on page request you'd need to have one person visiting a page every minute.

 

So yeah, cronjob

 

i was thinking you could have an admin page that you just leave running on some admins computer with repeated ajax calls to the required script, or he coudl write a demon, cronjob is all good thogh

[jackpf]

But you don't actually need someone to have more gold unless someone is using the game/application or whatever.

[Adam]

Too many potential problems with depending on a user though. I think an automated process is definitely the way to go...

[Thauwa]

YEah. Thanks guys for all the help, from what you all said, cron job is my solution. But now I have an idea of what to do.

What I really need is to have the an constant income of gold, so that many users would not get fed up of the game, and earn other resources manually. So, cron job, here I come!

P.S. Please  post of more ideas, I will post back! I think my question was good, for what was on my mind was posted here.

Another question. Can a php page be viewed with its codes, and the mysql passwords stolen?

[jackpf]

Only if PHP stops working for some reason. Which I have never heard of.

[Adam]

To avoid any problems like that store sensitive information within a private, non-public folder.

[Thauwa]

Well. That's a relief. lol

[Thauwa]

And, has anyone an idea on how to put a thing like what is at the bottom of this page?

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[Andy-H]

I dont think you need a cron job for this,

 

you can simply use mysql / php in a function script included on every page...

 

function addGold($gold, $timer = 60)
{
   $query = "SELECT lastGold, curGold FROM userTable WHERE userField = '" . mysql_real_escape_string($_SESSION['userSess']) . "' LIMIT 1";
   $result = musql_query($query)or trigger_error("Mysql Error, could not get userdata gold.");

      $row = mysql_fetch_row($result);

     $lastGold = $row[0] - time();
     $curGold = $row[1];
     $toAdd   = 0;

     while ($lastGold > $timer)
     {
         $lastGold -= $timer;
         $toAdd   += $gold;
     }

   $curGold += $toAdd;
   mysql_query("UPDATE userTable SET lastGold = " . time() + $lastGold. ", curGold = " . intVal($curGold) . " WHERE userField = '" . mysql_real_escape_string($_SESSION['userSess']) . "' LIMIT 1")or trigger_error("Mysql Error, Could not add gold."); 
     return $toAdd;

}

[Thauwa]

thanks. I will try it.