Comments on: Building Browsergames: Using Configuration Files (PHP)

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:20:18 +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.

By: ricardokb

ricardokb — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:33:55 +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!

By: ABDUKRAHMAN

ABDUKRAHMAN — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:40:15 +0000

I just bookmarked this for my future referance.

Thanks
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By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:08:30 +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.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:22:20 +0000

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

By: lollige

lollige — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:44:39 +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!

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:24:10 +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.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:15:43 +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