Scores on website

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  • Is there any way to save scores on my website?

  • Yes there is - I had a similar problem a couple hours ago.

    Check out the ajax tutorial here:

    http://www.scirra.com/tutorials/61/ajax-example-with-construct-2/page-1

    Say you wanted to request savescores.php - you would need two pass two values in - one being the username for identification purposes, and the second being their score.

    The PHP would look something like:

    <?php
    
    /*
         You will need to create the database, then create the "scores" table by running the SQL query below.
         
         CREATE TABLE `scores` (
         `id` INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
         `name` VARCHAR( 20 ) NOT NULL ,
         `score` INT NOT NULL ,
         PRIMARY KEY ( `id` )
         ) ENGINE = InnoDB;
    
    */
    
    $db = "your_database";//Your database name
    $dbu = "yourdb_user";//Your database username
    $dbp = "yourpassword";//Your database users' password
    $host = "localhost";//MySQL server - usually localhost
    
    $dblink = mysql_connect($host,$dbu,$dbp);
    $seldb = mysql_select_db($db);
    
    if(isset($_GET['name']) && isset($_GET['score'])){
    
         //Lightly sanitize the GET's to prevent SQL injections and possible XSS attacks
         $name = strip_tags(mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['name']));
         $score = strip_tags(mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['score']));
         $sql = mysql_query("INSERT INTO `$db`.`scores` (`id`,`name`,`score`) VALUES ('','$name','$score');");
         
         if($sql){
         
              //The query returned true - now do whatever you like here.
              echo 'Your score was saved. Congrats!';
              
         }else{
         
              //The query returned false - you might want to put some sort of error reporting here. Even logging the error to a text file is fine.
              echo 'There was a problem saving your score. Please try again later.';
              
         }
         
    }else{
         echo 'Your name or score wasnt passed in the request. Make sure you add ?name=NAME_HERE&score=1337 to the tags.';
    }
    
    mysql_close($dblink);//Close off the MySQL connection to save resources.
    ?>
    
    

    EDIT: To retrieve the scores, just run mysql_fetch_array (or object, depending on your preference) and loop through the returned results. It's up to you for how you want them displayed. I suggest doing an ORDER BY `scores`.`score` DESC LIMIT 10 query so you can do a "Top 10" leaderboard.

  • I have a simple scoring system in the test game I created along with the tutorial. I'm going to notate how to add a scoring system that will expand the tutorial a bit. Since the physics stuff came out, I'd like to update the game too.

    The reality is that it's mostly PHP that does the bulk of the work for you.

  • How can the PHP be created from the game?

  • How can the PHP be created from the game?

    Daniel,

    The php page is created on the server. It is already made.

    Pilfer, thanks for posting that code snippet.

  • Hi Ghengis

    I am a complete novice in programing. but have be strugling with

    a highscore/top10

    Could you PLEASE tell how its done, or place a sample xcap

    <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

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  • Hi Ghengis

    I am a complete novice in programing. but have be strugling with

    a highscore/top10

    Could you PLEASE tell how its done, or place a sample xcap

    <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

    I've been really busy with my day job but have started cobbling together an example. I know there was another member who provided an example as well. If I get a couple of hours in the next week I will post a tutorial.

  • 1000 thanks .... Will be so glad

    Have a Nice weekend

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