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php in network programs

Started by Jabus10 Apr 8, 2006 at 1:54 PM 1 replies 1k views

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Apr 8, 2006 at 1:54 PM

I have wanted to make a basic high score program so that users can send their scores in and you can then view the highesst scores online but i don't want to pay for server lesing or server location. Is it possible to make a php script on a site that you could then post the information about the score and then the php script checks a database and then sends a message that tells the game if it is in the top ten? If it is possible are there any tutorials on using the Post command in winsock. I greatly appreciate any help.

Kylotan

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Apr 8, 2006 at 3:39 PM

To use the PHP page, you will need hosting of some sort. Maybe there is free hosting somewhere. I expect the chance of having to pay for it will go up if you require a database, too.

As for posting results using Winsock, it's a little complex. You are probably better off starting with a GET request - open a connection to the relevant host and port 80, issue a line like "GET /highscore.php?score=12345 HTTP/1.0", followed by 2 blank lines, and then just read the response until it's completed.

You may prefer to use a library like CURL, however. I think that makes life a fair bit easier if this is your first bit of network programming.

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Apr 9, 2006 at 2:03 AM

The Forum FAQ talks about how to host applications.

The HTTP-GET library is a simple and lightweight way to read URLs (although libCURL is significantly more capable).

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