[PHP] game in php
Hello, I wanna create an online game in php and mysql and I have a problem. I have this database with this fields; id and number_attacks. And every 10 minutes number_attack to be increased by 1. How can i do that? Thanks
Re: [PHP] game in php
Hi, I have this database with this fields; id and number_attacks. And every 10 minutes number_attack to be increased by 1. You'll need to set up some sort of scheduled task (if you're on unix, your best bet is probably cron) - this task should call a script that connects to your database and updates the field. If you like, you can write the script in PHP and use something like lynx or wget to access it. Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] game in php
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Or, if you only want the number_attacks to increase for every 10 minutes that someone's playing (so it's not increasing throughout the night) you'll probably just want to hold the time the game started in a variable (or DB whatever) and just check with each page refresh to see if it's time to increase the value. There's other ways to do it, but your question was kinda vague so I'm not sure what method would work best for ya. Michael Kennedy www.onionology.com -Original Message- From: Jon Haworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 5:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] game in php *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Hi, I have this database with this fields; id and number_attacks. And every 10 minutes number_attack to be increased by 1. You'll need to set up some sort of scheduled task (if you're on unix, your best bet is probably cron) - this task should call a script that connects to your database and updates the field. If you like, you can write the script in PHP and use something like lynx or wget to access it. Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] game in php
Another way you can do it if you don't have that much access to the machine is to record the last time it was updated and when someone loads the page, you take the amount of time between the last incriment and now(). You then find out how many sets of 10 minutes have passed and incriment it that many times (if it's less than 10 minutes, you'll be incrimenting zero times). The only problem with this is that if 100 people load the script in a 10 minute period, only one will be updating the database - the other 99 are wasted traffic on the DB. But if you have no other options... -Original Message- From: Jon Haworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 6:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] game in php Hi, I have this database with this fields; id and number_attacks. And every 10 minutes number_attack to be increased by 1. You'll need to set up some sort of scheduled task (if you're on unix, your best bet is probably cron) - this task should call a script that connects to your database and updates the field. If you like, you can write the script in PHP and use something like lynx or wget to access it. Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
