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September 30, 2010
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Flash Game High Scores Board

  • September 30, 2010
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Hello everyone,

I know this is a subject that gets covered a lot as i have found a ton of tutorials that show a million dfferent ways to create a high scores board on a flash game.  So i decided to go out on a limb and pick a tutorial out to try.  Well I have now tried 3 different ones and have yet to get a working high scores board with my game.

http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Games/How_to_c-Nick_Kuh-771/index.php

That is the link to the most recent attempts to creat my high scores board.  When i finished everything the way the tutorial said it seemed like everything would work and then it just didnt.  After spending oh about 40 plus hours trying to make a high scores board i am getting very frustrated.  My game is scripted in AS2 and i have access to mysql and can set up unlimited databases.

Can anyone please help me by sending an easy to follow tutorial that will work with AS2?  I would just like any kind of help right now as I feel ALL of my valid ideas have been ehausted.  Thanks in advance to anyone that can help!

kapelskic

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Correct answer Ned Murphy

Look into using the LoadVars class instead of the loadVariables method.  Try searching Google using "AS2 LoadVars tutorial".  Here's one link from that search...

http://www.flash-here.com/tutorials/flash_loadvars_sample.html

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Ned Murphy
Ned Murphy
Brainiac
September 30, 2010

If you have a non-working attempt where you can show the code that is failing, then somewone here may be able to help get it working.  But why do you say you went out on a limb by trying a few of a ton of tutorials you found?  You need to try more until you find one that you can understand.  To expect that someone here is going to create/find and provide a tutorial for you that will somehow prevail where others have failed is a further stretch than that limb.

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Anonymous
September 30, 2010

Okay not a problem.


This is my code on the very first frame of the game that initializes the the highscores.php script

command = "init";
_root.loadVariables("highscores.php?"+int(Math.random()*100000), "POST");

This is the code that I have on a submit button, next to the input text box where the user enters their name for the scoreboard.

on (release) {
if(name ne ""){
command = "update";
_root.loadVariables("highscores.php?"+int(Math.random()*100000), "POST");
gotoAndStop ("highScores");
}
}

In every place the code says _root. I have also tried this. and neither of them work.  I have also tried a million other things.  So far the game plays through, goes to the game over screen where it asks for a user name and tells them their score.  Then once they press submit the game goes to the highScores screen but the name and score are not there.  The high scores screen cosists of 2 dynamic text fields one named "players" and one named "scores".  I hope this helps because I spent another 5 or so hours after my initial posts trying more tutorials with still no luck.  (the problem i am having is that i am new to flash, however not to PHP)

kapelskic

Ned Murphy
Ned Murphy
Brainiac
September 30, 2010

That looks pretty straight forward.  Will I need to change my PHP script at all to use that method?  Or will it work with what i currently have provided i use all the correct variable names?

kapelskic


I'd lean toward the latter, though I have no idea how you script is written.  Your best bet is to try it first, even as a separate focused test to see what works.  Then see about working it into your game afterwards.

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