PBW Emergency Site ver 2 Development

[Ruatha]

So far joint effort by Fyron and Ruatha, anyone else is welcome:


Here are betafiles:
betafiles
(Latest change: removed $date from deadline.php and moved $timezone from gaminfo.php to deadline.php
(Forgot deadline_check.php at work...)

---- In bold = Exists.
ELSEWHERE (OTHER DIRECTORY)
PASSWORD.CFG - Password for autoturn utility and main admin (Setup new games)

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main Directory (Whatever name)

INDEX.PHP
Start page, choose game if more than one otherwise autodirect to MAIN.PHP

MAIN.PHP Main page where everything happens, display players, empires, uploaded, deadline, news, history.

GETTURN.PHP
Getturn script

PLAYERUPLOAD.PHP
Sendturn Script

DEADLINE_CHECK.PHP
Displays deadline in different timezones, each player can check his timezone.

ADMIN.PHP
Admin script, change player names, empires, e-mails, number of players, admin password, news, turns to backup.

AUTOTURN.EXE
Checks if turns has expired or all has uploaded and then autoexecutes them if needed, updates deadlines, checks all subdirectories for DEADLINE.PHP.
Creates new games by setting up subdirectories and placing the appropriate files there.
Password used to access this program is stored in PASSWORD.CFG
Can be used to customize the sites, i e colours and any page image (Same image all pages).
Program is trayable.


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Game Directories (Name = Gamename, subdirectories)

GAMEINFO.PHP
Used to store game variables;
// Name of savegame file, minus .gam.
$gamename = "name";
// Full title of the game.
$title = "title";
// Info on the host.
$host = "name";
$hostmail = "email";
// URL of alternate forum. If you do not have one to use, just leave the default pointing to Intel Forums.
$forum = "http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum;f=23";
// Number of turns to keep backups of.
$numbackups = "1";
// Player information. Each player has 3 variables, name, email and empire. Do not worry about filling in info for players that do not exist (such as playername10 if you have only 9 players. The numplayers variable keeps track of the number of players in the game, so extra player info is ignored.
$numplayers = "13";

$playername1 = "SN";
$playermail1 = "email";
$playerempire1 = "empire name";
(repeat - to 20 players)

DEADLINE.PHP
File defining deadline and turn type (Manual, all uploaded and auto), Used in both PHP script and in AUTOTURN.EXE.
Date stored in Central European time, altered to the set timezone when displayed in each game.
// Date of the deadline.
$deadline_year = "";
$deadline_month = "";
$deadline_day = "";
$deadline_hour = "";
$deadline_minute = "";
// Default timezone.
$timezone = "";

TURNFILES
Directory for player turnfiles (PLR)

GAMEFILE
Directory for Gamefiles (ZIP)

BACKUP
Zipped old PLR and GAM files

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[ October 25, 2003, 11:00: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Ruatha]

An idead is to split up the Main.php into:
INCLUDE ("Header.php")
INCLUDE ("menu.php")
INCLUDE ("News.htm")
INCLUDE ("Deadline_check.php")
INCLUDE ("Show_players.php")
INCLUDE ("History.php")
INCLUDE ("Footer.php")

Where menu contains buttons for:
Get turn
send turn
mail host
mail all
Admin
Forum


???

[geoschmo]

Need a button for the host to get all the .plr files.

[Ruatha]

Geo, will this do:


On the Admin page:

(Password protected??)

Change player names and e-mails and empire names.
Change number of turns to backupp, turn execution type and deadline length.

Button to download all plr files and one to move all plr files to backupp.
Upload of Game file.
Add news.

In deadline.php we must add
$deadline_lenght (interval in hours of deadline).

[ October 25, 2003, 13:27: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Ruatha]

Fyron.
I think will add all variables in one PHP file to b eincluded.
The make almost all functions into seperate php files and make the main file almost only include.

I'm aiming to have it ready at the next PBW down time, may it never come.
It will have about the same functions as the current emergency site but be able to run turns automaticly aswell.

And have much easier code to read and edit!!

[Ruatha]

Fyron >
I'm doing a total rehaul, everything is changed.
It's based around your PHP variable file.

se here the example;
ver 2 example

The index page is almost done.
It searches the game directory for all directories, pulls out config data and displays it so that one can choose game.
What is missing in index? An Super_host admin page to set up new games, delete games and change info text on the index page, and set mail info (SMTP, account, on/off).

Everything else is game_host controlled (main.php and below)

New betafiles:
Beta 0.1 for ver 2
Work continues......

[ October 29, 2003, 06:37: Message edited by: Ruatha ]