Server Daemon.... Or PHP Driven?

Adarmo

I am currently researching on how to make a small-scale MMORPG.

Could anyone give me a short list of the differences/advantages and disadvantages between using PHP driven pages with built in logic, and having a server daemon?

Thank you for any and all help.

dalecosp

You mean a "Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game"??

What language would you write the daemon in?

Adarmo

I don't know.

Since then, i've found server daemon hosting unaffordable, so is it possible to make a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game using PHP driven pages with built in logic?

Would it cause any problems?

greg252

Seems like a logic problem.
"Massively" and "small-scale" cannot exist together, can they?
If you plan on big and get small, you lose money.
If you plan on small and get big, you lose patrons.
What a problem!

I would write the whole thing in C++ and make patrons d/l client.
PHP is great for data processing, but for an RPG with a ton of graphics, I wouldn't use it.
Look at client/server solutions.

Adarmo

What about something browser-based, with little graphics, similar to KoC?

Also, i believe i may have been confusing when i mixed 'MMORPG' and 'small-scale'.
Drop the first M, and i think you'd arrive at what i'm thinking of.

I don't know how to write C++, either. (Only BASIC, and i want to learn PHP programming, one thing at a time, then maybe C++)

I've also had problems when making a d/l client before, in the way it crashed the PC i was testing it on. (Which is seperate to the one i wrote it on)