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Mint

Fri Mar 31, 2006 11:05 am


Hey, I'm back and such.

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Hey there,

I haven't been here in a while, and now I need some php help.

I have small project I'm doing for fun, I have 2 files, the first is simply a form that asks for a username, a password an army type (radio buttons with numerical values). The information is then carried over to a .php file which then takes the data, and from the army type sets up the basic information (money, how many units, deffence, attack) and writes it to a text file. The problem is that I don't know how I can have php look into that text file and extract the information perline and then use it. 

OR, should I just avoild that whole problem and just try to do it with mysql?
(with which help would also be appreciated)

-Jake

Ps. this is just for fun and I don't have alot of experience with php, so all help is appreciated. Thanks alot.


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rdrake

Fri Mar 31, 2006 3:51 pm



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I would discourage the use of a file for this, a database is much more rubust, less prone to corruption, and many, many users can access the data at the same time.

That being said, [url=http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/phpmysql]this looks like a good tutorial to get you started.  Personally I just picked up a book with several example apps and went from there.

Just read up some tutorials online, and if you still have problems, we'll be more than happy to help out.


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Blade

Fri Mar 31, 2006 5:05 pm



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yeah, a database is much better... and i wrote a tutorial on it a while back..

http://compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?t=7589