Questions about "Include" command

[Blank]

alright.. this is what i'm trying to do..

i made a save feature on my rpg, and it works fine, when they want to save it creates a file with all the character stats with an account and password to login.
later when they reload the game they enter the account and password and it loads their character exactly where they were before.

the problem is, it gives me an error if i try to include a file on a site. how can i include files on sites??

[Tony]

include works at compile time only. It is for organizational purposes only.

to do save games, you'd have to read / write to a data file

[Blank]

fair enough, but i tried read/write as well, and it gave me a location error

i put the path name as something like "http://www.fakesite.com/test.txt" and it said could not open
C:/blah/location of the turing file/http://www.fakesite.com/test.txt"

[Mazer]

Reading and writing is for local files. If you want to get a file hosted on the net, you'll need to use Turing's net commands, though I'm not sure if you can write to a file on a server with it.

[Blank]

ok so then, is it possible somehow to have an account storage on a site? so that when they run the game they enter an account lets say..

Account1
Password1

then it reads from the site and sets all the variables for that account

then when they save it remakes the file with the new variable values?


(i just need to know if it's possible, and how, not a detailed explanation, because i already know how to do that with local files)

[Tony]

you're going to need to write to server's file somehow. i'm not sure to what extend turing's Net. module is useful or how serverside permissions work...

it might be easier to have a serverside script running that would update the files. in PHP perhaps. You can pass parameters to the PHP script from the turing by assembling together a proper URL to be accessed

[the_short1]

TRY THIS OUT!

u can read the content of .html files (read the code) with turing..

code:

var netStream, linecount : int linecount := 0 var line : string var list : array 1 .. 2000 of string netStream := Net.OpenURLConnection ("http://www.fakesite.com/test.txt"  ) loop     get : netStream, line     put line         linecount += 1         list (linecount) := line     exit when eof (netStream) end loop Net.CloseConnection (netStream) put "This Is All The Info From That Webpage!" for a : 1 .. linecount     put list (a) end for

instead of opening index.html.. just open test.txt.. this should theoreticallly work..

[zylum]

short1 > its easy to read the html text but to write it is another story...

i definitetly think php is the way to go though... ask amailer, he knows php (i think)

[Andy]

ask octpi.. since he is the mod..

[Tony]

when was the last time octopi was around? I haven't seen him for quite a while

[the_short1]

its simple.. i dont think turing can WRITE a file to the net..

but maybe if u can figure it out..... BadBlue hs remote file uploading... if u eneable it.. u can let other ppl from anywehre in the world upload a file to ur PC..by going to ur badblue page and using the 'upload file' button....(to a designated folder onto ur pc) and if the same file uploaded twice u can have it to update the previous one....

maybe get turing to write a file (to c:\\turingsaved.exe).. then open a webpage lets say..


if not Sys.Exec ("http://ur_ip_addy/upload.php?file=c:\\turingsaved.txt") then
end if

and maybe that will work to upload the file to ur computer erasing the old version of it...


/upload.php?file= i just pulled outa my ass.... i dont know what the real command is.and/or file name.... but if u could figure it out and if there is somethign like that... that would work perfectly in ur situation... and u can get amailer or octopi to get the right upload.php?file= command thingy.....


but i can try to help u in that route cuz i have badblue installed and all..and can help u set it all up etc..... but ud need to have it installed to test the theory cuz i can no longer upload (i past the 30 or w/e dayz)... but i can still download so i kept it...

BadBlue is a webserver thats free (well for first 30 or 60 days)

www.badblue.com


hope that may help.../

[DanShadow]

Just in case 'Blank' still wanted to know, here is how you use include:

code:

%Top of Code% include "c:/program files/turing/savefile.t"

This would include code saved under the filename "savefile.t" into your program from the destination "c:/program files/turing/".

[Delta]

Anyways... why would you need to store it on the net... like I'm sure it'd be kewl... but dude... just store it on the local computer... if you don't want ppl cheatin' and editing the files... encrypt it.

[the_short1]

but then the highscores etc wont be updated... ppl will manually have to tell u (like for my pacman game) and then u have to recompile....


i think i got how to do it for badblue.....

i isolated it within 15 lines of code... its a form thingy in HTML...

i not that good in html so i dont know...
.

its all about upload.dll...

and their is a forminput variable.. if u can auto make that into a file name then BAM.. ur done...


and if that cant be figured out....

well... u can make a smaller file from within turing with the new high scores (encryted), then just ask the user to upload that file using the little upload file pag.e... then u can uncrypt and ad the new high scores to the highscores file thats hosted on the net.... still better then re compiling..

[the_short1]

no matter what, host ur highscores file on the net and get turing to read it.... that way u ont need encryption at all.. and it can be updated without hving to recompile the whole program!!!!