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So you want to build a PHP game and are just now learning how to do it. You fired up your browser and began searching for various game articles and perhaps you have found very little. What you did find might not explain a flexible way to apply magical spells to units you create. After all, what is an RPG game without enchantments you can cast on your (or enemy's) ...
Welcome to another exciting episode! Today we will be discussing a topic that seems to be a bit of a confusing one for everyone... storing BLOB images in MySQL and then showing them again using PHP. While it is always advised against, we will show you a little demo code for how this can be done and discuss why/why not do this. We will then talk a little about the ...
Historically the question "How do I login to a website from X Language?" gets asked from time to time on Dream.In.Code. The answers to this question has not been the greatest and these questions tend to be largely ignored. I intend to put an end to this for the Java language with a simple example. The answer, while simple, does expect the reader to be at least familiar with how ...
The other day someone on the board had asked about histogram equalization and it had sparked some thoughts about how it is applied to picture correction and enhancement. Then of course it hit me like a ton of bricks (ouch!), why not make this into a blog post? So here I am telling all you fine people about using PHP to equalize the histogram information in pictures. Now we all ...
When talking about any kind of server-side language, like PHP or ASP, you will often find the term "database" not too far behind. It is the preferred choice for storing data on the web after all. Another option is to use a text file. The problem with text files is that they are not typically secure, can be easily read, and don't offer any of the features like referential integrity ...
You may or may not have heard about "Lightbox". This script is well known for creating the effect of dimming out a page and showing an element (like a picture or page) in the foreground at full illumination. Against the dark background this makes the element pop as well as disables the background temporarily for the user. The effect is nice for things like photo galleries or showing text snippets. ...
