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 ]