PHP - Simple Php Based Countdow Timer

Hello,

I'm working on a very simple strategy based game site (mainly to expand my knowledge).

What I basically want it to do is, you send a solider to an area which takes, say 20 seconds. After 20 seconds, he battles for 30 seconds, and then arrived back home which takes another 20 seconds.

All the user is going to be seeing is a 'status' echo'ed text saying "Arriving in 00:??", "Battle Over in 00:??", and "Home in 00:??".

So its just using a time counter. But what makes it more complicated, is that I want the time progress to be saved (datebase), so say I have to wait 50 seconds, I can sign off, go on another computer, sign in and still see my timer going down according to the time that has just passed.

So, what I've done so far is, have 4 variables:

$realTime - Holds the actual time in seconds.
$waitingTime - Holds how long I need to wait. (this is stored in my DB)
$differenceTime - Difference between real time and my waiting time. (loaded from my DB)
$soliderProgress - Progress of the solider, so: Arriving, Battle ... (stored on DB)


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$realTime = date("s");

//soliderProgress is 'Starting' by default
if(soliderProgress == "Starting"){
   //solider is moving to area
   $differenceTime = $realTime + $waitingTime;
   $SQL = ("UPDATE users SET differenceTime='$differenceTime' WHERE username='$username'");
   soliderProgress = "Arriving";
   $SQL = ("UPDATE users SET soliderProgress='$soliderProgress' WHERE username='$username'");
}

if(soliderProgress == "Arriving"){
   echo "Arriving to area";
   if($realTime >= $differenceTime){
      //timer is complete
      soliderProgress = "Battle";
      $SQL = ("UPDATE users SET soliderProgress='$soliderProgress' WHERE username='$username'");
   }
}

This kind of works, but sometimes my $differenceTime is higher than 60 which messes it up, and also the timer isn't live ... so I have to keep refreshing the page

Hi,

i dont know how to explain this so ill start with what i want to do.

Id like to create a simple text based game in php for learning purposes but im stuck on 1 thing, making a page refresh based on a server timer. Basically every 2 minutes is a server tick and at such time your character gets +gold based on resources etc.

im just not sure what such a thing would be called so i havnt been able to google it, obviously the ticks need to be server controlled so a user cant just refresh a page to get a new tick.

i would also need the page to display how long left till next tick.

the only way i can see it possible is to have a server side application controlling timers, and the php page requests time remaining or something.

Any help would be muchly appreciated, thanks.

Hello there,
I'm quite new on PHP language.I'm trying to make an simple Phone book apps.I added insert & show options in Phone book.Now i want to add "update & delete" option.How can i do that.
This is add code:
Code: [Select]
<?php
mysql_connect("localhost","admin","");
mysql_select_db("simphp");
//Get Values from form
$name=$_POST['name'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$number=$_POST['number'];
mysql_query("insert into phonebook(name,email,number) values('$name','$email','$number')");
echo"Saved Sucessfully";
echo "<br/>";
echo '<a href="index.php/">Homepage</a>';
echo "<br/>";
echo '<a href="select.php/">Show Data</a>';
echo "<br/>";
echo '<a href=update.php>Update</a>';
mysql_close();
?>Show.php=>>
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<?php
mysql_connect("localhost","admin","");
mysql_select_db("simphp");
$query="select *from phonebook";
$result=mysql_query($query);
$num=mysql_numrows($result);
echo"Number of records Stored:$num";
$i=0;
while($i<$num)
{

$name=mysql_result($result,$i,"Name");
$email=mysql_result($result,$i,"Email");
$number=mysql_result($result,$i,"number");
echo "<br/>";
echo "Name  :<b> $name </b><br/>";
echo "<br/>";
echo "Email : <b>$email</b> <br/>";
echo "<br/>";
echo "Phone :<b>$number</b><br/>";
echo '<a href=update.php>Update</a>';

$i++;
}
?>
 
How can i update and delete data?? :confused:help me

Hi

This should be pretty simple but I can't figure it out. 

 

I want to create and simple forward to different URL based on the user entry.

 

For example..

If they enter ABC in the box they go to www.11.com

if they enter ZXC in the box they go to www.22.com

if they enter CCC they go to www.33.com

If they enter anything else they get an error message.

 

Thanks for any help!!

 

 

i am looking for simple php mysql base event calender..that shows upcoming events...i would very helpful for your help.any tutorial.video.or helping link..??