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Re: Building Browsergames: Using Configuration Files (PHP)

Pandora — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 22:36:27 -0000

Hullo everybody,
sorry for my English, I'm foreign. Since a
browsergame is a really complex project I'd recommend to use a flexible
database class... on other pages related to a users/monsters stats, if
I'm right, someone mentioned the DRY principles... If u use a class
there can't be any repetition anymore... ;)
I always use the same
class in my projects cause it is very handy and can be recycled for
everything... here is a shorter version and only a tiny part of it for
you as an example... I hope I made no mistake cause I only wrote it only
for this comment and couldn't test it... But you might see which
direction it gives you...

class databaseConfiguration {

protected $dbhost;
protected $dbuser;
protected $dbpass;
protected $dbname;
protected $connection;
public $errormessage;

public function __construct($databasehost = "localhost", $databaseuser =
"root", $databasepass = "", $databasename = "project") {
$this->dbhost = $databasehost;
$this->dbuser = $databaseuser;
$this->dbpass = $databasepass;
$this->dbname = $databasename;
}

public function db_connection() {
$this->connection = @mysqli_connect($this->dbhost,$this->dbuser,$this->dbpass);
$this->selection = @mysqli_select_db($this->dbname);

if ($this->connection == false) {
$this->errormessage = "blablabla";
}

if ($this->selection == false) {
$this->errormessage = "blablabla";
}
}

// ... everything else related to the databases and which might be used more than twice could be added as another method,...
}

you just need to include it from an external file as Luke figured out and call to the class and the method with...

$db_conn = new databaseConfiguration("","","","");
$db_conn->db_connection();

I used optional parameters so you can also use it for every database you like...
You can make flexible methods for select, update, insert, too... ;)

Hope this hint was useful....
Pandora

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: Building Browsergames: Using Configuration Files (PHP)

ricardokb — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:33:55 -0000

I have already created the "login.php" and "register.php" : both woring 100%
but I still can´t understand the "config.php" file.

I dont really get what shall I type on the "config.php" file.

Thanks, and great tutorial!

Re: Building Browsergames: Using Configuration Files (PHP)

Luke — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:08:30 -0000

Hi Sean,
What do you mean by 'fails'? As long as you've written an .htaccess rule to
disallow users to view config.php, it should be virtually impossible for a
user who doesn't have access to the web server to read your configuration
file.

Re: Building Browsergames: Using Configuration Files (PHP)

Sean — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:22:20 -0000

What happens when the engine fails and someone sees all the information on this page?

Re: Building Browsergames: Using Configuration Files (PHP)

lollige — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:44:39 -0000

You have really written a wonderful tutorial, which contains just what I need! Thanks for linking every php code to the right page, this time it helped me easily figure the difference between require and require once, and require and include! Which I both did not know before (the differences)
Thanks!

Re: Building Browsergames: Using Configuration Files (PHP)

Luke — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:24:10 -0000

Hi Adam,

Thanks for pointing out parse_ini_file - seeing as we've already done all of our configuration work for now, we probably won't be using it in this project - but it's on my list of things to use for the next one.

Re: Building Browsergames: Using Configuration Files (PHP)

Adam — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:15:43 -0000

I find PHP's parse_ini_file an efficient and very handy method to use for storing configuration as you can split settings up into multiple sections and such as you add more settings.

~ Adam