online scores... tutorial + Live receiver...

Hi there,

that may be the return of a long gone topic, sorry for that.... But I definitely can't do anything with the replies i found by searching in the forum's archives... Using get object instead of live receiver sounds great but I cannot open the Easy_Score_Upload_Tutorial.mfa without the livereceiver...Thus i can't learn what I would be learning inside there :) Any updated version of this tutorial or anything that could help me out ? Thank you !

Check Neatwares Extension List in the side bar--->. That way you can at least load up the Tutorial.

Marv

Thanks but the download link to LiveReceiver is broken :( Also i forgot to ask but, should I be using the HIGHSCORE objects with any online scoring ? I haven;t opened the tutorial file yet so maybe this is a redundant question. But also just your honest opinion if it's easier without, with simple counters and or alterable values. Thanks.

I think Jamie replaced "Live Receiver" with "GET Object". So I believe you'd just need to replace the actions of Live Receiver with one of GET Object.

Well, he can't even open the MFA because he doesn't have Live Receiver. If I had a copy I'd upload it for you..

http://www.speedyshare.com/files/22040821/LiveReceiver.rar

Here you go :)

Hi Shmuper,


Have a look here



I use the opportunity and ask a question too.
According the tutorial if the table does not exit it will be created by a name as defined in config.php
Now if I want to utilize this as a web cart and want to make a table for each client to be named as the client’s name. In this case how can I let the table to be created without being dependent to the config.php?


/////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Check for the existing table if its not found create it
// This is really just here to make the life of new users of the script eaiser
// They won't have to go thru the script and create the table
/////////////////////////////////////////////////

if(!mysql_num_rows( mysql_query("SHOW TABLES LIKE '".$tname."'")))
{
$query = "CREATE TABLE `$tname` (`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,`gameid` varchar(255) NOT NULL,`playername` varchar(255) NOT NULL,`score` int(255) NOT NULL,`scoredate` varchar(255) NOT NULL,`md5` varchar(255) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`)) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=1 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;";

$create_table = mysql_query($query)or die (mysql_error());
}

-------------------------------------------------------

// Your table name for mySQL
// You can change this is you wish
$tname= 'scores';



With thanks

You wouldn't, creating tables is a stupid idea.

Copy how this stores multiple games' high scores in one table, instead.

Also, if you're asking a new question, you should really be asking in your own thread.

:blush:Sorry boss

Thanks Pasiunia. That Live Receiver Extension will help a lot of people out with that tutorial.

Marv

Just remember not to actually use Live Reciever. Use the Get object instead.

EDIT: Maybe someone could update the example to use the Get object?

Nice many thanks for the file. Hopefully it will be pretty straight forward to replace Live receiver by get object. Many thanks

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Jamie

Maybe someone could update the example to use the Get object?

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I would also appreciate it, an example that works in Java, too!

Can you test this out for me?

PDF instructions:
http://www.flyinvinteractive.com/online_scores/Easy_online_scores_readme.pdf

Scripts and MFA example files:
http://www.flyinvinteractive.com/online_scores/Easy_online_scores.zip

It worked in Flash -- should work in Java but you might have to sign your java applet -- I didn't have time to check it out.

Wow updated tutorial files :) Awesome.

I Will get on that right away. Thanks. I don't know how fast it'll be, but I'll do my best :)

Everything is working locally right now. I have yet to upload a version online and test inside a browser. But so far so good

Thanks again for the updated tutorial.

Hi Jeff,

I do not know much about php scripts but I have noticed that in both the files”config.php” and “score_script.php” the script starts with <? Instead of <?php .
The MMF file is ok and can connect to "http://www.flyinvinteractive.com/online_scores/score_script.php"
I have tried it with a wamp server and MMF cannot connect to the server until changing <? To <?php in both ”config.php” and “score_script.php” files.
I can then have the entries registered in the database but still there is something wrong with the “score_script.php” loading the player name.
I think there is a probability that both the files ”config.php” and “score_script.php” provided in this examples are slightly different from the those on http://www.flyinvinteractive.com/online_scores/score_script.php

Am I right or I am making a terrible mistake?

With Regards

Some servers require <?php and some just require <?. It depends on the server configuration.

"<?" needs an option called "short_open_tag" in the php config.

Well always something new to learn. I read the php.ini of the wamp server and it is there.
>>>>>; This directive determines whether or not PHP will recognize code between
; <? and ?> tags as PHP source which should be processed as such. It's been
; recommended for several years that you not use the short tag "short cut" and
; instead to use the full <?php and ?> tag combination. With the wide spread use
; of XML and use of these tags by other languages, the server can become easily
; confused and end up parsing the wrong code in the wrong context. But because
; this short cut has been a feature for such a long time, it's currently still
; supported for backwards compatibility, but we recommend you don't use them.<<<<<
At the moment it is configured as:
short_open_tag = Off

Can this be the reason I am having problem with the player name?

do I have to change it to

short_open_tag = On

Regards

It should work, or if you change all <? to <?php it should work.

Hi Dynasoft,

I have deactivated short_open_tag = Off as
; short_open_tag = Off
And it works now regardless of <? Or <?php
But still there is a problem with the player name.
By clicking the upload this score button for The first time
It returnes the following as the player name:
<br />
<b>Notice</b>: Undefined index: status in
<b>C:\wamp\www\test\score_script.php</b> on line <b>40</b><br />
score and date are ok
nothing wrong in the database. data are entered correctly
Now if I click “upload this score” again then I get no error with the playername.

With Regards