Pits of Doom Lesson 5: Easy Map Editor
In the last lesson we made some real progress. Now, instead of having a boring page with a click of one button before the game is over, we have a character that can move...
Tagged: MySQL
MySQL FIX: Row handle referred to a deleted row or a row marked for deletion.
Okay, so this could be a few things. Usually this means mysql is trying to access a row that you’ve already deleted. However I happened to get this error just by doing a select...
Pits of Doom Lesson 4: And Array We Go
In the last lesson we covered how to create a function, how to use some of php’s built in functions, and how to deal with sessions. Now we’ll take it even a step further....
Pits of Doom Lesson 2: Breaking It Down
One of the best things to do if you’ve never made a game before or you don’t have much programming experience is to break things down into their most basic parts. We’ll start off...
Free Multiplayer PHP/MySQL Game — Pits of Doom
About a month ago I started giving someone PHP/MySQL lessons. In the lessons I made up a little game to teach the guy how to do different things in PHP all the way up...
Pits Of Doom Lesson 1: Planning Stage
Before you start any kind of online game you need to take a minute to sit down and consider some of the following questions: What is my game called? What is my target audience?...
Error FIX: Column Name Appears More Than Once In Result Column
Okay, so I kept getting this error and it finally dawned on me that it means exactly what it says, lol. I was trying to run a stored procedure and had a query where...
Learning PHP (Part 3)
In part 2 I covered else-if statements and more complicated if statements. One of the other concepts that’s essential to learning any kind of programming is loops. There are three different types of loops...
Libmysql.dll Download
Okay so I might as well post this one too. You can download it, just save file as.
Connecting to a MySQL Database Using PHP
You would think this is really obvious but I see a TON of posts on devnetwork.net (great php/mysql site) where people include their database login/password in every page from a non-protected directory. Big no...
