Re: [pbmserv-dev] gamerz.php

[John Williams <williams@tni.com>]

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Paul van Wamelen wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, John Williams wrote:
> > I think I would like to help port some of the wamelen games to work on
> > gamerz.net.
> >
> > Could someone give me a few pointers as to what needs to be done to get
> > them working?
>
> Currently you will need an account on Richard's machine. Looks like you
> do, so you are all set there. Now look at the .php files in the
>   /home/PBM/pbmserv/public_html/
> directory (and game specific subdirectories). You will need to know some
> php. Fortunately it is a very easy language to learn with very good
> online documentation:
>   www.php.net
> Now look at the code at
>   http://www.math.lsu.edu/~wamelen/gamerz/files.php

Actually, I was looking the stuff in
/home/wamelen/public_html/gamerz/gamerz, which I saw mentioned in a
Makefile somewhere.

> and start making the translation...

I noticed the parameter lists to some functions have changed.  DoGame no
longer has the $Match parameter, for example.

So I was wondering what prompted that change, and what areas of the code I
should be concerned about changing (as opposed to the areas which probably
still work).

> To set up a "test server" just copy the php files to your own public_html
> directory and start debugging!

Since I'm still shooting at a black box, I decided to start a game from
scratch.  Following some of the examples, I now have a XiangQi board
displaying using the CSS stuff.  Still need to work on the clicking part.

> When you get something working let me know and we can figure out a sane
> way to integrate the make process...

The one Makefile I looked at was just copying files from /home/wamelen.
Do you do anything more complicated than that?

~ John Williams