PHP help?

Hi there.
I'm currently working on a project that stores all kinds of parameters and eventually output a script to the user containing those parameters. At first I was just dumping everything to chat, but since it was too large for a single line it didnt seem the qway to go (people would need to disable timestamps etc.) So im trying to do it via httprequest, which i've seen done in other applications. I managed to send the data to a basic php script on my server and echo it back to the object, but thats about as far as my php knowledge goes. I'd imagine I need to write the data to a file that contains the rest of the script to display, and also somehow make sure each user gets a unique link containing their key etc. Is there anyone who is willing and able to assist me with the php side of this project?

no need to disable timstamps... use newline characters to move the begining off the object say, or even use comment wrappers to contain breaks in the stream...

if you are sure you want to use php, instead of having it reflect the variables you feed it, instead make a page that takes preconfigured variables and builds the content within the php, and then have the script spit out the URL to that script along with all a reference list to chat and let the use open that url to get a script spit at them...

eg
script builds url http://some.com/script.php?ABCDEF
where abcdef are the options the php script reads and replaces with code segments to return

granted it's not very updateable but it'll save you from dealing with SQL just yet.

you could also save each option as a flat file, so that the php can read those. but at that point you might as well take the time and use SQL to store them.

With newline character I assume you mean "\n". Which I use allready, but when dumping the info (either by speaking the string or speaking llDumpList2String(data,"\n"; ) The string is cut off before the end.
What do you mean by 'comment wrappers'?

If I can avoid the script being dependent on remote server i prefer to do so

if you copy the output of the following script from the chat window to a script it'll run, even with the name of the original object or timestamp in the middle of it. (it's just the default hello avatar script) a double beginning newline, and a trailing one gives whitespace around the script to be copied

/*
this is a wrapped comment
but it could just as well be
an object name with a time
stamp, or some other mess
*/

default{
    state_entry(){
        llOwnerSay( "\n\ndefault\n{\n    state_entry()\n    {\n        "
                    + "llSay(0, \"Hello, Avatar!\";\n    }\n\n/*" );
        llSleep( 0.1 );
        llOwnerSay( "\n*/\n\n    touch_start(integer total_number)\n    {"
                    + "\n        llSay(0, \"Touched.\";\n    }\n}\n" );
    }
}

I only recently found out they they finally instituted multiline comments so don't feel bad.

If it turns out that you do end up needing remote storage, you might want to take a look at stuff like this: http://aubretec.com/products/sldb/

I prefer to roll my own storage, but SLDB is free, and looks pretty easy to set up and use.


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Now THAT is something NOBODY knew

Thanx a lot this should do it

Unfortunately Luc forgot about mac ppl

I don't think I understand why you'd say that, since I don't see anything on that page that is OS-specific in any way, but let me say that I'm happy you found a solution


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I don't get it either. MySQL, PHP, and even Apache should work fine on the Mac OS. I seem to recall that configuration of them might not be all that simple compared to other OSs, but it's certainly possible.

Ooops, thats me judging a downloadlink by it's .zip extension
thanks for making me look closer!