Help with online features (detailed info inside)

Ok i know theres a million newbies saying I wanna make an online game fast and easy and etc etc, but please read on.

What im asking is a little direction on how to proced or were to look in order to make the online arrangements
to my game, here is what im trying to do:

Basicaly is a simple card game that works like rock paper sissors bewtwen users:

rock card <-- Paper Card <---Fire card <-- water card etc...

The players will earn and/or loose points depending on the card they used and what was before it.

the game is almost done, but the online features is what i have no idea how to do.

what i want to do is :



Log in feature for each player :

They would log in with name and password.
Obiously theyre points would be stored.

Store variables

For score and point mainly, also stats

1 Hour per play Limit.

Since its kind of a forum game, players will play 1 card each hour.





I think thats pretty much the important stuff. So please tell me were i should get started, im not afraid to lear a little programing, but i dont have the time to learn the whole language; i dont mind following tutorials.

Also i dont need the game to be fast paced, i have a free web server and the game isnt going to get a lot of traffic.

thank you for youre time and if you need more info so you can help me , just ask smile.gif

To have a log in feature and to store info you will need to own the server you are using(hopefully you do already) and use an INI on the server. But first: Have you made any parts of the game online yet? If so, are you using MooClick? I wouldn't want to try to explain to you how to make a log-in system if you haven't worked with mooclick at all. I would suggest doing Jeff's simple_chat tutorial, that really helped me learn how to use mooclick.

Have a look at the Simple Chat tutorial on this page, mentioned above - http://www.clickteam.com/eng/learning_resources.php - and also the Online High Score tutorial, which deals with interacting with an online database.