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...
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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...
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...
XAMPP: Learn PHP & MySQL Without Online Hosting!!
One of the questions I get most frequently is what I use to make my text-based games. My answer is always the same, PHP and MySQL. Let’s say you wanted to learn these languages,...
Learning PHP (Part 2)
In part 1, I talked about requirements for php, creating a file, variables, and if-else statements. Now on to harder concepts. Else-If Statements Before we covered the if-else statement. In an if-else statement if...
Learning PHP (Part 1)
When the Internet exploded in the .com age people were just starting to realize the potential of online programming languages. PHP, or Hypertext Preprocessing, is one of my favorite programming languages. One of the...
CHM & PDF Programming Manuals
I know these have come in handy for me over the years. Right click and save link as. AJAX – chm Pragmatic AJAX – pdf Allegro 4.2.1 – chm C++ Addison Reference – chm...
