Re: [PHP-DB] Best way to have virtual objects do something? From: Leif K-Brooks (eurleif <email protected>)
Date: 07/19/02

Can someone please help me? I know I should figure it out myself, but
it's pretty urgent.

Leif K-Brooks wrote:

> First of all, I'm sorry if the php general list would be a better
> place to do this. Anyway, I am making a game website with a friend.
> Among other things, it will have virtual objects that can be used to
> do things. My database structure idea is something like:
> item_actions(id int,displaycode text,code text)
> item_types(id int,actions text,name text)
> items(id int,type int,owner int)
>
> The action display code will control how the action text is displayed,
> it's code will be run when it gets used. The actions field in
> item_types will have the ids of what this type of item can do. The
> thing is, I want to be able to pass values to the actions so that I
> won't need to add a new action for every small difference. I have
> considered using funcctions for each action, but I want to store them
> in the database so artists can add items without knowing php. Any
> ideas? Thanks.
>
> 

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