Need a book

Dummkopf

Hi,

I´m searching for a highly advanced PHP-Book.

If you know one, please give me the adress, where I can find it or an ISBN-number.

That alone would be great - but if you find one giving special information about game-development or project-management, you would make me really happy !! 😉

Thx!
Dummkopf

BuzzLY

Try here. I really don't think you will ever find a book on Game programming with PHP -- it's not exactly practical, unless you are developing Zork 4 😃

rklapwijk

I've got PHP Bible, a really good book. For the things i can't find i visit php.net and phpbuilder

rpanning

I've also got PHP Bible and like it very much. I'd recommend it to anyone. ISBN: 0764549553

Myrkul

Originally posted by BuzzLY
Try here. I really don't think you will ever find a book on Game programming with PHP -- it's not exactly practical, unless you are developing Zork 4 😃

im not sure what Zork is .. but i know you can use PHP for online web based games 🙂 (planetarion is a good examplebut there are hundreds others)

drew010

Professional PHP 4 from Wrox Press is a pretty advanced book. You can download the code samples from the book here: http://web.wrox.com/professional/6918.zip. The book is the second link in my signature.

BuzzLY

Originally posted by Myrkul
im not sure what Zork is ...

OMG... and you call yourself a computer geek?????

You must be fairly young 😉

Zork is a text adventure game from the very early 80's. The great thing about it was that you could type in commands in regular sentences, and it would respond to you, sometimes in very funny ways (especially if you swore).

You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.

_

Ah, the memories 🙂

Elizabeth

OMG my brother and I loved that Zork game... you actually had to picture stuff in your head and not see it graphically- imagine! There was also a "pirate" one I think -although I'm a bit fuzzy. I vaguely remember playing it from a tape cassette.

Ah, Buzz... just realized our digression has once again taken us WAY OT. 😃

<- Trying to stay focused, but it's impossible, I think LOL.

Weedpacket

Hey, I think I might have one of the original FORTRAN versions around here somewhere ... no, I'm thinking of ADVENT (a game I've been thinking about porting to PHP and making multi-user).

But yes, Zork was originally written in FORTRAN, a language designed for scientific processing, and later ported to C when that language was invented. Once you get into high-level software design (like writing a game) the precise choice of language starts to become secondary to the higher-level architectural stuff. That's not to say you'd write Quake III in PHP any more than you'd build the Eiffel Tower out of mud bricks, but in the end programming is programming whatever language it is you're using.

How's that for a subtle segue back on topic?

dalecosp

Originally posted by Weedpacket
How's that for a subtle segue back on topic?

Nice.

*Kopf, I assume that you've read Welling/Thomson's "PHP and MySQL Web Development", then? Crash course from zero to 90 in a few hundred brief pages.... 🙂

<ot>FWIW, Zork is now "Dungeon" in BSD land....."; no idea the date on that one...

dalecosp

Welcome to Dungeon.                     This version created 11-MAR-91.
You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded
front door.
There is a small mailbox here.

Elizabeth

FWIW, you can still buy Zork here at Amazon.

Of course, you can also buy advanced PHP books here at Amazon.

Gosh, I'm really getting better at the whole "segue back on topic thing". 🙂

-Elizabeth

rklapwijk

@ Elizabeth, keep up the good work 😉

I don't know Zork (please don't slap me!), but i used to play Larry in the land of whatever it was called on my old 86, used commands as well. Man that game was GOOD.

Elizabeth

Originally posted by rklapwijk
... but i used to play Larry in the land of whatever it was called on my old 86, used commands as well. Man that game was GOOD.

That wouldn't be "Leisure Suit Larry," would it? Although I remember that as having relatively good graphics for it's time... especially if you played it on the "naughty" version. LOL

-Elizabeth

rklapwijk

Could be the name, english isn't my native language and i played it while i was around 10 or 11 so my english was bad, somehow the strange name i wrote stayed in my head. O well.
The naugthy version was great, ever walked on the street after having sex and forgot taking your rubber off? Just one of the great things that were in the game.

Myrkul

Originally posted by BuzzLY
OMG... and you call yourself a computer geek?????

You must be fairly young 😉

Zork is a text adventure game from the very early 80's. The great thing about it was that you could type in commands in regular sentences, and it would respond to you, sometimes in very funny ways (especially if you swore).

Ah, the memories 🙂

actually you are right i am failry young.. born in the 80s..

But would Zork be anything like a really simple one player MUD? (now those i play often love them.. even though they are before my time)