Comments on: Designing a flexible items system

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:52:29 +0000

Because it's only you(the developer) adding items, this isn't really an
issue - you just redefine your enum and go from there.

While this isn't the best way to lay out an items table(and future tutorials
will be doing it differently), it was the best at the time in terms of
allowing us to be flexible with our items and stats when we weren't sure how
our idea was going to grow and change.

By: keilaniswk

keilaniswk — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:40:06 +0000

What happens when you enter an item type that is not on the list?

Its value will be left blank on the type column.

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:52:29 +0000

By: keilaniswk

keilaniswk — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:40:06 +0000

What happens when you enter an item type that is not on the list?

Its value will be left blank on the type column.

By: Val

Val — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:46:06 +0000

If you want to add more enums, you need to redefine the table using the MODIFY TABLE syntax.

By: MrLollige

MrLollige — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:44:39 +0000

Enum looks good. But google cant tell me how to add a possible value.
For example, if I have a row:
type ENUM('Weapon','Armor','Usable'),
And I want to add 'Shines' and 'Tradeable' to it later on. How do I do that?

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:24:40 +0000

Hi Sunchaser,

There aren’t really any plans on building a quest system or a map-based movement system – but I’ll do my best to research it and write something on it once I’ve figured out how to build one.

sepp: using an enum for item type is a great idea – thanks for pointing that out.

By: Sunchaser

Sunchaser — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:39:26 +0000

Nice article…

Do you plan to write some articles on a quest system editable by users or a system where players can move in a map?

By: sepp

sepp — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:52:16 +0000

For item.type I would use an enum.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/enum.html