opinions/suggestions

[Anon]

Hey!

Okay, im making a gaming system. The gaming system is based on star wars games. It uses a map and 4 teams compeating against each other! The map has neutral zones, and zones that belong to a team.

The map is made up using a table and images in the table cells to make it look like space. The system will be automated therefore the team leaders will submit their next moves on the map each week.

I would like to know what's the best way to achieve this? At first I wrote a function, with help from grumbler (thanc Grumbler) that took two paramaters... $cellsdown and $cellsacross. This worked fine untill I realised that some cells would have the neutral images, and other cells with team images in them. So, as it is now Iv'e written the map in HTML. There must be a better way to do this, right?

Another problem I'm having is giving each table cells a unique ID so that I can refer to it when the team leaders decide to move.

So, there's two problems im having and I would be very greaful if anyone could suggest ways of accompishing this task.

Regards, Stezz.

[van__]

<form>
<input type="image" name="map" src="/image.jpg" border=0>
</form>

look for:
$POST['map_x']
$POST['map_y']
in your GLOBALS.

Per the HTTP FORMS spec, images used as inputs will operate as a submit and include the images x and y coordinates clicked.
So if the user cliked the very upper left hand corner, the post data would be 0,0.

You can use the image functions to use this data to move pieces around on the image, thus using your image as a screen 🙂