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[BorisPD]

So,I wanna learn to create browser game,but I have very low knowledge in MySQL and PHP...I know HTML and CSS...I know that I need to learn mysql and php,but I dont know what to create,I wanna learn while creating interesting things....
Can you give me some "missions" on what to create with mysql and php...

[BlackScorp]

Hey welcome to the forums,

i dont would suggest you to make a Browser Game as Newbie, i would suggest to make a small homepage and extend it.
First make the homepage with a guestbook , including BBCode and Captcha. After it create an admin control panel to edit the guestbook entrys. if youre done with it you learned somethink about security of userinput, and authentification.

once yove got your page i would suggest to take an open source script, install it and try to modify somethink ingame.
(here is a nice RPG OpenSource Script http://sourceforge.net/projects/worldofkallen/)

if you think you can understand the code which other ppls made, i would suggest you to install an OpenSource PHP Framework and remake your homepage with that Framework to learn basics.
(Kohana Framework http://kohanaframework.org/ seems to be a good and powerfull framework)

and if youre done your page with that framework, you can beginn with your first Browser Game.

Best regards BlackScorp

[andrewjbaker]

Check this out BorisPD... http://buildingbrowsergames.com/tutorials/

And welcome to the forums.

[Kyle]

I honestly learned PHP by using wampserver to run a pbbg script.
After I got things set up, I started making random small changes to the code just to see what things did.
Trial and error my friend, and trust me...there were lots of errors..it takes a LOT of time and ever more patience to learn PHP, and mysql, but once you get it down it's a breeze.

I used PHP.net as a reference a lot, as well as w3schools. Both are helpful.

If you want my recommendation on what script to use, mccodes lite. It is free, it is small so you won't get lost in the pages, the code is pretty self explanatory once you gain a minimal understanding of how things work, and lots of successful games have been created with the mccodes engine. You will learn how to connect your script to a database as well as executing queries and a few simple server side commands. Plus lots of good functions to get the ball rolling on seeing how things work.
I believe it's in the downloads section here