lore_lanu Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Hi all, I am in the process of building a sort of 'plot' where users can register and compete to complete puzzles. The puzzles are in order, so a user can't go on to puzzle 1 without solving puzzle 2 and so on... I was wondering what would be the best way to store a users' progress in my mysql database. I was thinking that when a user correctly answers a puzzle, a row labeled 'puzzle' would update to that puzzle number. If a user tried to access a puzzle with a higher number than the one stored in the database, they would be rejected. I'm not sure if that made much sense, but is there a more efficient way to store this information? Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFilmGod Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Yes, that's the correct way of doing it on a small scale. If you had 1 million users and constantly updated their progress every let's say 80 seconds - that would be a problem. On a large scale you would simply add a row with the user_id and the puzzle_id they accomplished. A cron job would cycle through those records and update the original user rows of their progress. To make this "cron" job work - you'd also need to make sure that you store the user's progress in a PHP Session to keep things as correct as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lore_lanu Posted July 4, 2009 Author Share Posted July 4, 2009 Thanks for your input! I'll work on implementing this straight away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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