PHP - Strategy For Keeping Development In Synch With Test?

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)


Code: [Select]
$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

I am refactoring entire collective scattered SQL from my legacy codebase, and into separate classes, and looking for some structure to put it into.

Right now I have folders effectively called `DataFromDB` - contains classes that accepts whatever parameters are given, and returns pure data back to the user `DAO` - Data Access Object, which takes that raw data from DB and makes sense out of it and prepares it for consumption by the model/business logic layer objects. That is:

    - src (folder)
      |- DAO (folder)
        | - ProductADAO (classes - take data in, return consumable objects out)
        | - ProductBDAO
        | - ...
        | - ProductZDAO
      |- DataFromDB (folder)
        | - ProductAData (classes - contain methods to query pure result sets from DB)
        | - ProductBData
        | - ...
        | - ProductZData

Whenever I need to make a new SQL or refactor an old one I do this: What is this SQL doing?  Is it operating on `SomeObjectX`?  If yes, find/create class called `ObjectX`, and add a method to it, extracting pure data from DB, put it into `DataFromDB` folder. Write the `DAO` object if needed to transform data into a consumable object. Use the object as is in my code. Does this look like a good strategy?  Is there a better one?   My problem with this one is that before (now) all the SQL is tightly coupled and is included into the multiple business classes.  Using the above strategy will mean I am to be creating many many classes, a lot of classes, most likely one for every few SQL statements.    The pros is that it seems like I will achieve a level of code modularity that I wanted.

Sooo i got this idea but i dont know the line of code i should write +im an amateur coder. Anyone know how to make
the 123d catch into a web application. Just gv me a start and ill modify the code slowly. And 1 more thing..
Does anybody know how 123d catch was able to combine the pictures into 3d.
Like if you know can u also gv me the code.. appr3ciated alot. and also do u know how to make like if someone press the pic and moves to the left the 3d picture will move to the left also

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but it seems to be acceptable. Please let me know if it's out of line, though.

I recently started learning PHP and am going through PHP and MYSQL Web Development. It seems like a pretty good book so far. Currently I'm working through the code in chapter 1 and am running into an issue.

From what I can tell, the code I should have at this point is as follows:


<html>
<head>
  <title>Bob's Auto Parts - Order Results</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Bob's Auto Parts</h1>
<h2>Order Results</h2>
<?php
  // create short variable names
  $tireqty = $_POST('tireqty');
  $oilqty = $_POST('oilqty');
  $sparkqty = $_POST('sparkqty');

  echo "<p>Order processed at ";
  echo date('H:i, jS F Y');
  echo "</p>";

  echo "<p>Your order is as follows: </p>";
  echo $tireqty.' tires<br />';
  echo $oilqty.' bottles of oil<br />';
  echo $sparkqty.' spark plugs<br /'>';
?>


</body>
</html>

Within the PHP script, two particular blocks of code seem to be giving me problems:

  $tireqty = $_POST('tireqty');
  $oilqty = $_POST('oilqty');
  $sparkqty = $_POST('sparkqty');

and

  echo "<p>Your order is as follows: </p>";
  echo $tireqty.' tires<br />';
  echo $oilqty.' bottles of oil<br />';
  echo $sparkqty.' spark plugs<br /'>';

Without these two blocks, the rest of the PHP executes but when I add one or both of these the PHP doesn't show up at all; instead it only executes the HTML and the output from the PHP doesn't show up. IF I remove these and only keep the "Order processed at" part of the script, that part executes fine.

I've gone through the code in the book and it seems like what I have is correct. As soon as I try to define or call any of the variables, it seems to break the code.

Any ideas? Sorry to bother you with such a basic question but I can't seem to locate a problem with this code based on what I've been taught so far.

Thanks!

If any of you have developed mobile apps before I could really use some advice, please. I have never made one, and would like to for my website. I just need to query my database and display the information. From what I have been able to put together so far, I know that I can use css and jquery fine. My main question is: can I use php to query the mysql database? Pretty much I am a novice, so if using these languages together will not work, please feel free to suggest combinations that would be better. Although, I am trying to avoid as much object oriented stuff as I can, because I just don't get it entirely, but I'll still take the suggestion. Thanks.

  Hi all,

  Php and web development wannabe, started HTML in about 2006 for my ebay listings, CSS came shortly after but it wasn't until maybe 2009 when I used my first 'someone-else's-php-script' to implement a dynamic breadcrumb.

  Although I have trouble reading volumes of text, a lot of discussions on code draw me in. I end up taking in a lot but in a totally non-structured way.

  After lots of googling, reading and some more practice of putting 'other-people's-php' into action I found I understood that breadcrumb... Sort of. I merrily tore out over half the code and refactored using ternary operators - I can't see why people remove those to increase readability?? OFC I lost every hint of error management! Now I've heard of error management I try to envisage what might go wrong and print messages to screen if "something unexpected happened".

  So I've been bumbling along solving problems for specific tasks and asking a lot of questions - But I've never joined a php forum! Formulating a question that's not embarrassing to ask, usually ends with me answering my own question and when I do want to put something out there, I'd rather fill up Yahoo Answers (A few very good and very generous users on there!) with my gibberish than contaminate someone's proper, serious, scripting forum.

  So anyway, I had a question to ask earlier, YA seems to be running out of steam and I only half answered it myself so here I am...   Hi!

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Hi all.

Does anyone use Localstack to for local AWS development? I'm currently developing on a system that uses numerous AWS SQS queues, AWS ElasticSearch, AWS Redis, and many, many S3 buckets with about three dozen PHP-based micro-services; I've built a local development environment consisting of containers using several Docker images, one of which mocks AWS using a Localstack image. This works, for the most part, but I find that the Localstack instance just ... stops working. It - after a random amount of time, and intermittently if more often than not - won't process any of the queues that the system uses, or will drop bucket contents despite being set up for persistence (the `DATA_DIR` objective is set to `/tmp/localstack/data` as instructed in the README).

I get the impression that Localstack is fairly widely used for local AWS development, so I have to assume if this was a normal situation I'd've found it in my searching, but so far it doesn't seem to be a big deal. I'll post the docker-compose file here if it helps, but does anyone have any experience with a similar situation and feel like sharing tips? Did it work, did it not, do I need to convince my company to pay for the pro version, do I need to do a modified rain dance, etc?

As always, thanks in advance for any thoughts or advice.

Chrome? Edge? Other? Had a bad experience with Edge.

If development tools make one better than the other - what tools?

And if you are using PHPStorm maybe the choice of browser is less important? No?

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