Randomizing Encounters & Data Delivery Help please.

[Gheeda]

I'm currently working on a browser based mmorpg. First things first, here is an example of my battle.php

 

<?php
include_once 'connect.php';
session_start();

include_once 'logo.php';
?>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<div id="login2" div align="center">


<?php




if (isset($_SESSION['player']))
{
  $player=$_SESSION['player'];
}
else
{
  echo "Not Logged in <br><br> <A href='login.php'>Login</a>";
  exit;
}
?>
</div>
<?php
$playerinfo="SELECT * from players where name='$player'";
$playerinfo2=mysql_query($playerinfo) or die("could not get player stats!");
$playerinfo3=mysql_fetch_array($playerinfo2);

include_once 'statpanel.php';

$pid = $playerinfo3['id'];
$name = $playerinfo3['name'];
$playerhp = $playerinfo3['hpoints'];
$playerattack = $playerinfo3['attack'];
$playerdefense = $playerinfo3['defense'];

if ($playerhp < 1)
{
  echo "You are dead!" ;
  echo "<br><a href='inn.php>Heal at the lake";
  exit;
}
?>
<div id="table">

<?php

if (isset($_GET['randid']))
{
   $randid=$_GET['randid'];
   $iteminfo="SELECT * from inventory where randid='$randid' AND id ='$pid'";
$iteminfo2=mysql_query($iteminfo) or die("could not get item stats!");
$iteminfo3=mysql_fetch_array($iteminfo2);

if (!$iteminfo3['name'])
{
}
else
{

$iname = $iteminfo3['name'];
$stats = $iteminfo3['stats'];
$statadd = $iteminfo3['statadd'];
$type = $iteminfo3['type'];

if ($type == "healing")
{
   $newhp = $statadd + $playerhp;
   if ($newhp > $playerinfo3['maxhp'])
   {
    $newhp = $playerinfo3['maxhp'];
   }
    $updateplayer="update players set hpoints='$newhp' where id='$pid'";
  mysql_query($updateplayer) or die("Could not update player");

    $updateitem="DELETE from inventory where id='$pid' AND randid='$randid' limit 1";
  mysql_query($updateitem) or die("Could not delete item");
   
   $playerhp = $newhp;

  echo "Used " . $iname . " and recovered " . $statadd . ".<br>";
}

}}





$creature = $playerinfo3['creature'];
if ($creature != 0)
{
$creatureinfo="SELECT * from creatures where id='$creature'";
$creatureinfo2=mysql_query($creatureinfo) or die("could not get the creature you were fighting!");
$creatureinfo3=mysql_fetch_array($creatureinfo2);

}
else
{
  $creatureinfo="SELECT * from creatures order by rand() limit 1";
$creatureinfo2=mysql_query($creatureinfo) or die("could get a creature!");
$creatureinfo3=mysql_fetch_array($creatureinfo2);
$cid = $creatureinfo3['id'];
$updateplayer="update players set creature='$cid' where name='$name'";
  mysql_query($updateplayer) or die("Could not update player");
}

$creature = $creatureinfo3['name'];
$creaturehp = $creatureinfo3['hpoints'];
$creatureattack = $creatureinfo3['attack'];
$creaturedefense = $creatureinfo3['defense'];



?>
</div>
<div id="player">
<?php
/////player info
echo "<u> " . $playerinfo3['name'] . "</u><br>";
echo "Hit points = " . $playerhp . "<br>";
echo "Attack = " . $playerattack . "<br>";
echo "Defense = " . $playerdefense . "<br><br><br>";
?>
</div>
<div id="creature">
<img src="images/<?php echo $creatureinfo3['imgurl'];?>" <br>
<?php
///////creature info

echo "<u> " . $creatureinfo3['name'] . "</u><br>";
echo "Hit points = " . $creaturehp . "<br>";
echo "Attack = " . $creatureattack . "<br>";
echo "Defense = " . $creaturedefense . "<br><br><br>";
?>
</div>

<div id="options">
<?php
echo "<a href='attack.php'>Attack</a>";
echo "<br><a href='usemagic.php'>Use Magic</a>";
echo "<br><a href='useitem.php'>Use Item</a>";
echo "<br><a href='index.php'>Exit Arena</a>";


?>
</div>

<div id="logout">
<?php
echo "<br><a href='logout.php'><img src='images/logout.gif'>";
?>
</div>

 

 

Particular functions I'm interested in for zone creation.

 

-Pay to get in & have the initial icon switch to a now usable adventure zone. (done)

 

-When 'adventuring' in this link. Battle php randomizes encounters between 'combat encounters' and 'non-combat' encounters.  (can't get this right, and removed my utter failures from the code above as to not clutter it. Pulls randomly from the Creature DB just fine but when I try to add in the 2nd,non-combat,db..it pulls nothing.)

 

-NonCombat encounters dish our reward. (currently my non combats do not give reward. Unlike a standard creature encounter where a players gold and exper get updated on a victory...I dont know how to immediately trigger the change on encounter & I'm epically unsure how to craft the $updateplayer= to be so broad as to include all possibilities of improvement but only to utilize the one being called upon in the encounter)

 

-I'm also interested in updating my battle.php to include a dropdown list of usable spells/items instead of the current method of Attacking/going back/selecting magic or items/going back/...repeat. It works, sure, but its nasty..Any ideas on how to call on the database for user specific data to fill in a drop down menu?

 

[Gheeda]

*drags back onto page one*...still really need thoughts on this.

[Gheeda]

*pulls from page 4*...still looking for some help.