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Re: So long, and thanks for all the fish

Luke — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:48:43 -0000

There have been some plans in the works to archive the site for a while now;
it will stay up in it's current form for a while, and then when it's doable
it will get archived - but the content will never disappear.

Re: So long, and thanks for all the fish

Luke — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:31:46 -0000

That would be a clever april fool's joke, wouldn't it? :P

Unfortunately, that's not the case here though :(

Re: Got Snippets?

Luke — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:45:50 -0000

Thanks for the tip, Bonnie - there's work being done on a new design that
should work in IE8, and I'll be sure to post something once it launches.

Re: Getting Started With MongoDB (Python)

Luke — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:58:03 -0000

I've noticed this issue with some of my Bottle projects before, but I'm not
exactly sure what's causing it - and it's been too intermittent for me to
reliably pin it down. I'll do some research and let you know if I find a
fix.

Re: Getting Started With MongoDB (Python)

Luke — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:04:05 -0000

Thanks for the heads-up, Mathias - I'll have to keep that in mind for
projects I write in the future.

Re: Getting Started With MongoDB (Python)

Luke — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:26:34 -0000

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the heads-up - I knew about the upsert, but I didn't know
about the $push operation (or think to use it in my get_current_user
func). Thanks for the heads-up!

Re: You should try a NoSQL database today.

Luke — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:08:35 -0000

You can do that, sure - but when it comes to extracting those
contents, what do you do? Either way, you're working around a
limitation of your technology - whether you're adding lots of columns,
or storing what should be two columns inside of one.

Re: You should try a NoSQL database today.

Luke — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:24:32 -0000

The benefit comes up when you find that you want to create hybrids of
different objects. If you want to have a quest that requires killing
things *and* delivering a package, how do you do that when you only
have one column to track the quest type in? Do you add a new quest
type, and duplicate the code for killing and delivering quests?

Re: Building Browsergames: The Registration Page (PHP)

Luke — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:32:19 -0000

I couldn't say what's breaking for you, and you'll want to look at the
line just before the one where the error's being thrown - somehow,
your $result variable is being set to a boolean value instead of a
mysql resource.

Re: Building Browsergames: The Registration Page (PHP)

Luke — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:25:15 -0000

That error message means that your PHP script is unable to connect to
your MySQL database - try making sure all of your credentials are
correct, and then continuing from there.

Re: Building Browsergames: Implementing an e-mail confirmation system (PHP)

Luke — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:07:00 -0000

I'm not sure - you'd have to show me lines 22-25 of your register.php.

Re: Building Browsergames: Using Configuration Files (PHP)

Luke — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:20:18 -0000

You use config.php to store configuration values that both scripts
will need to use - for now we're just storing database settings, but
as your game grows you may find yourself needing to store more and
more values related to configuring your game - config.php is how we
solve that problem.

Re: New Project: RPG Machine

Luke — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:04:55 -0000

Sounds a lot like Progress Quest(http://progressquest.com). What's supposed to happen if the bar on your demo empties/fills? Nothing did for me.

Re: Building Browsergames: The Registration Page (PHP)

Luke — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:11:17 -0000

Exactly :)

Re: Building Browsergames: The Registration Page (PHP)

Luke — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:10:38 -0000

PHPMyAdmin is software that you run on your server - it doesn't matter
what operating system the computer you're developing on is running.

Re: Designing your game’s database

Luke — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:59:35 -0000

The reason that items got done this way(as opposed to user accounts)
isn't really because of OOP at all, so much as flexibility - this
tutorial started out without much of a plan for where it would go, and
I wanted as much flexibility as possible when it came to adding new
items.

Re: Preparing our items system

Luke — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:57:58 -0000

It looks like they might be! I guess that's a typo.

Re: Building Browsergames: Implementing an e-mail confirmation system (PHP)

Luke — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:40:27 -0000

No reason at all not to do it that way - send away :)

Re: Building Browsergames: The Registration Page (PHP)

Luke — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:33:14 -0000

It sounds like you may have missed a closing brace somewhere - if you can
paste your code somewhere or e-mail me directly at
buildingbrowsergames@gmail.com, I'll try to help you get your issue sorted
out.

Re: Building Browsergames: The Registration Page (PHP)

Luke — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:31:54 -0000

Try pasting your code somewhere, so I can take a look - or e-mailing me
directly at buildingbrowsergames@gmail.com. I'll try to help you get this
figured out :)

Re: Building Browsergames: The Registration Page (PHP)

Luke — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:40:24 -0000

Is it possible one of your conditions is not being met? That's the only
reason I can think of for why a new entry isn't getting saved down.

Re: The Tutorial List

Luke — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:37:42 -0000

Some AJAX tutorials? I can't really write a tutorial about Ajax itself, but
I'd be happy to show you how to do certain things with it(as long as you can
tell me what they are).

Re: Building Browsergames: Implementing a flexible stats system (PHP)

Luke — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:15:02 -0000

Thanks for the tip, Name!

Re: Why you should be hashing sensitive data

Luke — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:30:45 -0000

E-mails are definitely considered sensitive(although you can't hash them
because you need them to e-mail users).

I shouldn't say that there's no way to unhash data, but there's no way that
you'd want to - if you want to be able to recover the information, you
should look at encrypting it instead(so that you can decrypt it when you
need it).

Re: Looking for a tutorial?

Luke — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:03:40 -0000

Lawrence,

Are you talking about the Building Browsergames tutorials, or a different
set? The Building Browsergames tutorials actually *are* linked, and you can
see the progression on the tutorials page at
http://buildingbrowsergames....