Hi everyone, my name is David and I'm new to PHPBuilder.com forums, but I hope to stick around for a while. Looks like a great place to learn. Anyway, I'm mainly interested in building my sites with PHP5 now. I'm new to PHP overall and I need some help with my current site. I wanted to make a game rpg kind of site and I just wanted some input for how long and depthy of a project it will be.

I want
-Login and Register page for my users
-A high scores page which displays everyone's scores from greatest to least.

I just wanted to ask you all on your opinions on this project. Do you think it would be hard to design using PHP? Or just hard no matter what?

    I don't know about the RPG stuff, but the registration and high scores bit is an absolute doddle.

    As soon as you learn a little SQL getting the list of high scores would be as simple as running the query

    SELECT score FROM playerscores ORDER BY score DESC LIMIT 10;

    That would also limit it to the top 10.

    Do a search on finding form variables with $GET and $POST, as soon as you understand that then try and set up a database and put values in and pull them out again. Might sound hard at first, but within 2 weeks you'll be laughing at how easy it all is.

      I would guess by 'doddle' that Drakkie means its all be done before!

      Make sure you check out the tutorials, libraries (PEAR) and script sites (www.hotscripts.com). It has all been done before and you dont need to be re-inventing the wheel.

        Thanks for the help. I'll check out both of those things, and post back to let you know how it's coming along. You guys just saved me a whole bunch of work.

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