Re: RES: [PHP] Game development approach

Check PHP-CLI ( Command line interface ) You can run php script without client request. For example : /usr/local/bin/php -f /path_of_your_script/game.php arg1 arg2 & --- Alexandre <mech39@terra.com.br> wrote: > Robert Restad wrote: > > I suggest you write a 'tick' engine, which i.e. > games like Planetarion > > use. > > > > This should be written in C or C++, compiled... > You can run this using > > PHP of course, and run it from command line/shell, > but PHP isnt ideal > > for this. If you have a decent server and not too > much players (i.e. > > more than a hundred simultaneous players), then > PHP will do. Any more > > than this, and I doubt PHP can handle without > choking the server. > > > > Hello Robert, > > First thanks for your answer and your help. I would > like to explore this concept > of using the PHP. I mean, I've already coded some > small games in C++, and > implementing a game loop is kinda easy, since you > have the control of all the > data being processed. But PHP scripts, as I > currently know of, are only run when > requested by the client, and the when they finish > execution then they're gone. I > never tried, but could it be done a game loop in > PHP? I mean like a script I > would start and it would keep running constantly, > checking for new commands in a > queue, updating objects status, can it be done or > the server would kill it? > > Kind regards, > Alex > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com