Re: PHP telnet server

It's actually derived from tinymud. XML is another option, however I've had people tell me not to use that because it's horrifically slow, even though I've used it extensively, through AJAX before and never had a speed issue; although perhaps when dealing with more information it does become an issue? On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Robert Cummings wrote:

On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 13:27 +0000, Luke wrote:

The current system also uses some kind of strange text based database, I was wondering if using MySQL for the database would slow it down too much?

Which MUD engine are you using? Chances are it's DIKU, or Circle, or Merc or one of the many derivatives. I converted ours years ago from that horrible text format to XML... not that everyone thinks XML is the bee's knees, but it's certainly more flexible than DIKU flat file. MySQL can work, but I don't suggest it as a straight up format. I suggest something like XML (or any other flexible markup language) which is then housed in a MySQL database. You may enjoy the pain of managing 60 different tables though for an object... or not :) Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php