I’m starting work on a script for something to do during freetime. I’m gonna be hosting people’s DnD character sheets on my computer, and I’m going to eventually code this thing to be able to update it on the fly, etc.
I was wondering if, given about a week or so for me to become much more formal with PHP and SQL itself, if there would be any willing testers of this, how many people would use this… etc. Please only post here if you’re going to not be an ass. I’ve already got the very basics down, and I’m starting real work on this scripting tomorrow. I (eventually) hope to support the following:
[ul]
[li]Registration and login support for individual people (asap)
[/li][li]Individualized character sheets on a per-user level (asap)
[/li][li]On-the-fly updating of temp modifiers
[/li][li]Auto-calculation for such things as skills, feats, AC, and other temp modifiers
[/li][li]A generally good layout
[/li][/ul]
Thanks for your time
I’ll edit this when I think of other things I might wanna do.
This is less of an “I LOVE DND :D:D:D:D:D” thing and more of a “hey… I should actually do something with the days on end that I sit on my ass.”
Also, I must reiterate:
<b>Please only post here if you’re going to not be an ass.</b>
Sounds doable, definitely. Depending on how important security is, though, programming that part might be a bitch. Designing and using a database isn’t terribly difficult, however designing a GOOD one can be trying. You want to make sure you get a good design down first, otherwise you’ll want to kill yourself when you’re working out all the programming nuances.
I can help with any of the coding if you need it, as I use PHP and mySQL at my job. Dunno too much about IIS, but you probably don’t need to mess with that too much (if at all).
Yeah, IIS is just there because I need some sort of hosting software.
The system I’m using is (actually) similar to the way ragnarok online’s account system works. It assigns one ID per registrant, then characters are tied to that ID once created. The account ID auto increments with each new account created, so there’s not too much worry in terms of security, I’d presume.
I could probably find a way to md5 the passwords in the SQL database, then do so with the passwords themselves as they get checked, but that’s definitely for much later on in the scripting.
This is mostly just me becoming much more familiar with coding things, really. You have to remember that the only formal work I’ve had with programming was my senior year in high school taking a basic and pascal programming class
I was doing something similar to that for Eva, just using ASP and ADO (.NET) for the technical side, and no actual system for the RP part. We could talk and compare some ideas.
For all you’ve said, I think the layout part is the hardest one.
Yeah, that’s definitely the hardest.
I have a little thing going right now that’s working wonders for checking everything. I’m about to do a quicktest using some things I have setup, then I’ll get working on a registration system. Could be the easiest part, or maybe the hardest, depending on how I intend to do it.
Chances are I’ll manually edit the userdb myself, just to make things much easier in short term, and work on the registration once I get better at it.
I’m not sure I’ll be THAT much help, inasmuch as all I know about DnD is what I got from an out-of-context (and possibly, with third edition, out-of-date) “what’s wrong with DnD” page, but I figure, what the hey. I’ll test too.
Lawl. I won’t be done personally-testing this script before monday, kor.
d20 modern will be the first I add. It’s not radically different from d20 ‘regular’
Although I have noticed one thing I’ll need that i seriously lack: d20 knowledge. I need some people to give me the ‘calculations’ needed with regular d20 stuff. Just like PM me or some shit.
Login-scripting is basically done, I’m gonna consult with some people about it, but otherwise it should be completed once I do one last quick test.
I’ll then begin the process of fetching the character sheets, etc. and putting them into tables all neat-like.
Alright, here’s where you guys come in.
I need you to post ANYTHING you think should be on the character sheet display page(s). Name, gender, etc. Just post it all.
I’m not sure what I should omit or what to put in… what to keep… etc. =\
