Comments on: Building Browsergames: Reducing Repetition (PHP) http://buildingbrowsergames.com/2008/07/07/reducing-repetition-ph/ Ever wanted to build a browsergame? Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:26:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Luke http://buildingbrowsergames.com/2008/07/07/reducing-repetition-ph/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Luke Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:21:46 +0000 http://buildingbrowsergames.com/?p=78#comment-67 Thanks for the tip, sepp - I'll have to look into that as well(it looks like this will be the week of re-designing for DRY =P) Thanks for the tip, sepp – I’ll have to look into that as well(it looks like this will be the week of re-designing for DRY =P)

]]> By: sepp http://buildingbrowsergames.com/2008/07/07/reducing-repetition-ph/comment-page-1/#comment-65 sepp Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:59:55 +0000 http://buildingbrowsergames.com/?p=78#comment-65 Hey, that's great you considered my notes. I'm honored =) . Actually if you try to keep your code dry you could also expand this principle to cover your database design, too. Why not only have one stats table instead of three or more? Simply call one column "type" again (with ENUM) to choose which stats you want to select, add, delete or update. I haven't read the whole code absolutely attentively, but I ran over it ;) . The tables seem to be pretty exactly the same. Greetings from FEtMab Sepp Hey, that’s great you considered my notes. I’m honored =) .

Actually if you try to keep your code dry you could also expand this principle to cover your database design, too. Why not only have one stats table instead of three or more? Simply call one column “type” again (with ENUM) to choose which stats you want to select, add, delete or update. I haven’t read the whole code absolutely attentively, but I ran over it ;) . The tables seem to be pretty exactly the same.

Greetings from FEtMab
Sepp

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