Personal Mod - Points System
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Forum Description: Mod's and Add-on's for Web Wiz Forums.
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Topic: Personal Mod - Points System
Posted By: vracicot
Subject: Personal Mod - Points System
Date Posted: 18 September 2006 at 3:37pm
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Hi there! First of all, I would like to mention that this is by far the most solid and easy to manage board system I have tried yet and it seems that all our members agree. We'll definately stick to it if the possibility of coding the following is possible. For version update's sake, I would like to code all of this in a Mod and I would like if its doable or not. We are running a puzzle game and instead of displaying the number of posts of a user, we would like to display his points. We also want players to be able to transfer their points to "buy" hints and clues. No problem there... or so it seems. I could hard code everything in the ASP files, the problem we will have to face later on is when a new version of Web Wiz will pop-up, I will have to recode everything. I'm not very familiar with Mods but from what I understand, it would be the best way to code our point system. Am I right? Is it possible? What should I be aware of before I venture into "modding" ? Thank you kindly for all the information you can provide me. Vincent |
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Posted By: vracicot
Date Posted: 18 September 2006 at 6:25pm
| Nevermind my latter post... I've read through the forums and read how users are offering thier mods... Seems that my idea of exporting all my code into a file.asp was good but absolutely not how this mod thing works. |
Posted By: wistex
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 5:31am
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Option 1:
Well, all you would have to do is change the word "posts" to "points" in the language file, and that's it as far as WWF goes.
Then you modify your game so that they can earn points, buy and trade points, etc. on pages completely outside the forum. You would simply have those pages do database calls that add or subtract points from the posts field in the WWF database. This would automatically update WWF with the correct number of points.
Option 2:
Create a seperate database field to store the points.
In WWF, you would add a line under "posts" that displays the "points." You would have to have it do a database call to get the points from the database.
Then you modify your game so that they can earn points, buy and trade points, etc. on pages completely outside the forum. You would simply have those pages do database calls that add or subtract points from the points field you created in the database. This would automatically update WWF pages with the correct number of points. ------------- http://www.wistex.com" rel="nofollow - WisTex Solutions http://www.caribbeanchoice.com/forums" rel="nofollow - CaribbeanChoice Forums |
Posted By: wistex
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 5:33am
And don't worry about how everyone else does it. There are more than one way to build a mod, and not all mods work alike. ------------- http://www.wistex.com" rel="nofollow - WisTex Solutions http://www.caribbeanchoice.com/forums" rel="nofollow - CaribbeanChoice Forums |
vracicot wrote:Posted By: vracicot
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 9:09pm
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I like the ideas you suggested. At first, I thought mods were distributed like a game mod. I think I'll do like everyone else and hard code it... or maybe use the <!-- include... from javascript. Your suggestions also gave me the idea to "attach" points to the PM system. That way, a player could send points to bribe another player and the latter could accept or refuse. |