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I am really new to making an async game and I would like to know if you could just get the current gamestate and save it as it is or if I would have to grab all code seperatly and organising them into tables. It would be very useful if there was some kind of function that could save everything at once as I am building a pretty big game and it would take a long time grabbing every last piece of information.
So to summarise: I would like to grab the existing gamestate and put everything in a database, then grab everything again and restore that gamestate.
Thanks in advance!
You'll need to submit (or retrieve) the gamestate data to a server with JavaScript. You can use something like JQuery's ajax function for this.
For the server to do anything meaningful with your data, you'll need to use some kind of scripting language. PHP or Node.JS might be a good place to start if you're new to this.
Once the server gets the HTTP request, you can have it send a query to your database (like MySQL) and send back some kind of response.
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I wish to know the following: Which one of the following is faster- passing variables to a javascript function and then passing it on to a php file to carry out some operation or running a MySql query to fetch the variables in the php file without passing them? ..Thanks a lot!
For pretty similar request .. if the related value are already available to te client and you need this to some other page then tecnically
the javascript ajax request involve only the internet transfer of the call and the transfer of the result .. the use of database access in addition to sending the request and receiving data also implies the access to the database so normally should be more fast ths ajax method
Unless you have a specific reason for using Javascript, for instance, updating displayed records without reloading the page, use PHP directly. You can always run the php function in a class on a separate file if you wish to keep your html and php separate.
My personal experience of ajax, which you should remember still has to access PHP in order to execute server-side requests, is that it can appear slow. Whether or not it actually is slower, it leaves the page in place whilst executing the code and so might present that illusion to the user.
Also, I think the simplest solution is the best, so if you don't need ajax you shouldn't use it, but if you do need it then there is no reason not to do so that I am aware of.
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I wrote a small code in c# that reads files from the hard drive and outputs that info to a webpage using asp.net.
Information about those files is being changed in the codebehind.
I managed to create variables to read and display the info on the webpage, but they change only after a refresh. When I used setTimeout it would always read the same variable, leaving me thinking that the codebehind does not get re-executed.
How would it be possible to have them updated live without needing to refresh the entire page?
This is somewhat vague but if you want updates to the values on your page after loading, you'll need to use some javascript to grab new values and then more javascript to update values on your page.
There are some great frameworks out there. Unless you have a lot of front-end logic you need to perform through javascript, I'd keep it as simple as possible and throw jQuery in there for the AJAX calls (fyi, this is not the only solution, there are 10+ different ways to skin this same cat).
If you want a bit more efficiency, you could look into using SignalR - which wraps long polling or web sockets (depending on browser capability) on the front end and signals those subscribing pages on the backend only when changes have occurred to data.
Link: http://www.asp.net/signalr
There is no "right" answer to your question so the best I or anybody can do is guide you in a direction. Hopefully this answer helps you.
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I am creating a PHP application, where I want one user make a database entry. It should be reflected to all the users whoever have this app open on their browser will get instant notification that some data has been updated on the database or with whatever data has been inserted.
Is there any way I can get real time notification of data inserted or updated? On all the opened browser without any delay.
We use AJAX for now. But it seems like our application is now working slow due to continues request. Any other way? Which is free.
Thank you!
Take a look at Pusher (https://pusher.com/). It does what you want to achieve and it works like a charm.
I don't know what do you use on your server side but even if it isn't Laravel, take a look at Jeffrey's Laracast about implementing real time notifications in Laravel (PHP). https://laracasts.com/lessons/pusher-awesomeness
Have a fun! When I did it, my app became extremely sexy. Real time notifications, DOM manipulations etc.
You can use web sockets. One existing library example for PHP is Ratchet.
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Hi I am trying to develop a mobile app. The problem I am having is this, when the user fills in a form on the html page I want the data to get written to an unordered list on the same page. I want when the next user fills data for that dat to get written to the second list item in the list and so on
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Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to give with this problem
If I understood correctly, you're trying to make an app that stores the data of each submitting of the forum and returns them to all users that come across the page?
For such tasks you'll need, at least:
A web server that runs PHP, Python or other language to your liking*;
A database to connect the server-side with (MySQL or PostgreSQL usually);
What you need to do:
Learn about HTTP POST and basic SQL input/output if you haven't;
Learn AJAX if you haven't;
Store the user input in the database and have a server script retrieve it on call;
Update the dynamic page bit (the unordered list) with AJAX (loading a XML file with the PHP script that writes the database info into it should do) every minute or so using a timeout function.
I'll post links to all I've mentioned in a minute.
*NodeJS is getting popular for being asynchronous (making it easier for dynamic pages to interact with the server) and allowing programmers to use the same language client- and server-side, but I have never tried it to tell you how it fares. Edit: says John NaN: NodeJS is not recommended. Again, I don't know it myself; that is why it's on a note and not upper in the post. Good luck!
*Bonus note: don't trust W3Schools most of the time. The AJAX tutorial I linked to, however, isn't that bad and it's easy to follow.
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I want variables from my Javascript functions to be recorded in a database on my server and then posted back onto the html page. I know this may be easy with the POST and GET method, but I've been reading and I'm stumped. So if anyone could lead me to a sample that shows how to do this or show me here in an example of one that would help.
You need to use some form of server-side scripting language (such as PHP) to capture the data sent from JavaScript (presumably via means of AJAX's XMLHttpRequest object) and insert it in the database.
i.e.: There's no means of directly communicating with MySQL from JavaScript itself - you need to use a server-side scripting language to do this.
You might wanna read into Ajax which uses the XMLHttpRequest object to do exactly that.
Using this you can send data to and from a server side script. So that way you could "insert variables into database."