Comments on: Using Items (PHP)

By: Green Magi0

Green Magi0 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:32:12 +0000

I think that's what you wanted to see, if not, let me know and I'll get the correct code up.

I'm kind of a PHP noob, but I want to go to school for it, and become a Webmaster, or possibly just a freelance webdeveloper/ designer soon. I need a job soon, and I love making websites.

By: Green Magi0

Green Magi0 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:28:03 +0000

Example Inventory from database;
usedspaces = 11
inventory = 12 , 9 , 13 , 3 , 2 , 2 , 9 , 9 , 2 , 2 , 11
Each number is an item ID.
I'm not good with arrays, so I use the field, "usedspaces," to tell my functions how many times to repeat the cycles.

$query = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = '$user'";
$results = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
$row = mysql_fetch_array($results) or die(mysql_error());
$invo = $row['inventory'];
$inventory = explode(" , ",$invo);

$n = 0;
while ($n <= $usedspaces)
{
$currentitem = $inventory[$n];
$query1 = "SELECT * " .
"FROM items " .
"WHERE id = '$currentitem'";
$results1 = mysql_query($query1) or die(mysql_error());
$row1 = mysql_fetch_array($results1) or die(mysql_error());
$name1 = $row1['name'];
$id1 = $currentitem;
echo "$name1

Drop / Use
Deposit";
$n++;
}

I have 5 copies of the code inside the while so that I get 5 items to display per row, then it creates a new row, and repeats until it goes through every item in your inventory.

By: Green Magi0

Green Magi0 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:32:12 +0000

I'm kind of a PHP noob, but I want to go to school for it, and become a Webmaster, or possibly just a freelance webdeveloper/ designer soon. I need a job soon, and I love making websites.

By: Green Magi0

Green Magi0 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:28:03 +0000

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:48:16 +0000

I think for now just seeing the way that you load a player's inventory would
be good - although if you have ideas on how to improve the other areas of
the tutorial as well, please e-mail them to buildingbrowsergames@gmail.com.

By: greenmagi0

greenmagi0 — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:52:04 +0000

What all pieces would you want to see?
I have a shop system that builds onto your inventory when you buy items, you can drop items, I have inventory system, also equipment system.

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:17:18 +0000

Hi greenmagi0,
That's probably true – typically the first pass of these tutorials has a bit
more code than it needs. Would you care to share your inventory code?

By: greenmagi0

greenmagi0 — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:13:59 +0000

It looks like you have more code than necessary. I have a pbbg and my game uses literally 4-5 lines of php to extract and build your inventory from the database, then it uses a while statement, and fills in the variables it got into the html tables.