High Score Table

burgermeister01@insightbb.com wrote:
> Hmm, yes, maybe you might remember me as the guy with the hangman game
> earlier. Well, I forgot about the high score table for that game, but for
> the scale of the next game I'm making I really kind of want one. Now, when
> I was doing the hangman game I figured out how I *could* do it, but the work
> required, shuffling so many text files was too much trouble. But I really
> want to do it now, so I'm wondering can anyone think of an easier way to
> make a high score table without using a database. Before I figured I could
> have corresponding name and score text files and fread and fwrite as I
> needed to, but thats like 20 text files to have to deal with. Is there
> perhaps an easier way, or should I just get cracking?

Use php to your advantage. Use a single text file if you do not have
database access. Store data per line, and use symbolic dilemetation so
you can manage the data within the file.

Example:

hangman.txt
HighScore|100|Username|DateScored
LowScore|1|Username|DateScored
Last10Players|Usernameone|Usernametwo|Usernamethre e|etc..


You can patern your file to suit your needs...and it only requires a
single file todo so.

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Kyndig
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What kind of commands would you recommend using to move data into and out of
the file? The only one I know of so far would be substr, and there *must* be
something a little more tangible than that, right?

burgermeister01@insightbb.com wrote:
> What kind of commands would you recommend using to move data into and out of
> the file? The only one I know of so far would be substr, and there *must* be
> something a little more tangible than that, right?


HighScore|Username|DateScored|ValueScored


open the file and read contents into $buffer

$line_list = explode("\n", $buffer );

loop through each $line_list array now with something like
foreach( $line_list as $line )

You now have a single line that is dilemeted by | sysmbol. Find
out what this line contains...

$entry_list = explode( "|", $line );
list( $field, $user, $date, $value ) = each( $entry_list );



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Kyndig
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say...

> What kind of commands would you recommend using to move data into and
> out of the file? The only one I know of so far would be substr, and
> there *must* be something a little more tangible than that, right?

http://uk.php.net/explode

Remember also that "\n" is a line break, so

$scores = explode("\n",$score_file);

would split up all the lines of $score_file into an array $scores.

if you wanted, you could then explode each value of $scores to seperate the
values seperated by your symbols (eg "|" or ",")

hth

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Nathan.
XBL Gamertag: Cowfield
http://www.cowfields.com
Bow to the Cow!

To read a text-file with different entrys on different lines, I ALWAYS use
$data=file(data.txt)
This puts the different lines of the file to the array $data[]

Then you can sort the array, get the values, adding lines to the array
etc...

To put the new (with added highscore) to the file I use this code:

$number=count($data);
$fp = fopen(data.txt, 'w');
for($i=0;$i<$number;$i++) fwrite($fp, $data[$i]);
fclose($fp);



"Nathan" <spamfourstomachs@hotmails.com> wrote in message
news:Xns93CB7F2D5669Efourstomachsspamhotm@130.133. 1.4...
> say...
>
> > What kind of commands would you recommend using to move data into and
> > out of the file? The only one I know of so far would be substr, and
> > there *must* be something a little more tangible than that, right?
>
> http://uk.php.net/explode
>
> Remember also that "\n" is a line break, so
>
> $scores = explode("\n",$score_file);
>
> would split up all the lines of $score_file into an array $scores.
>
> if you wanted, you could then explode each value of $scores to seperate
the
> values seperated by your symbols (eg "|" or ",")
>
> hth
>
> --
> Nathan.
> XBL Gamertag: Cowfield
> http://www.cowfields.com
> Bow to the Cow!