PHP calculator . . .

[bpat1434]

Okay... updated it a bit.... should have everything...

[ldf]

Looks i'll have a LOT of work if: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110102580135 is (about) all the SNES games ALONE. Now the NES, N64, Genesis, & Turbo probably also had 100's of games. Oh joy, a heck load of edits.

[madwormer2]

Heh, I was surprised to see this on the front page of qj.net

[ldf]

i'm susprised at all to find articles about it.

[bpat1434]

Have fun with that.... but now it shoudl be easier... if you read the questions on the ebay listing, you can get complete lists there 😉

[ldf]

I update when the games are out for the North American players. I doubt Nintendo would release all those games in a week or month. They'd spread there games out over several weeks, months, years.

[ldf]

Probably asked enough but would it be possible to add a 'comment' filed (small text area) that would send 'comments' about the caluclator to my e-mail? I do not anything to be saved to the database . . . .

[madwormer2]

You can learn a lot by reading the PHP mail function pages.

Ref Page: http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php
Function page: http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

[bpat1434]

You can check out my demo (bpat.homeip.net) to see a semi-working copy of it. I don't have the mail() extension enabled, so it won't send, but it works none-the-less. And here's the code to accompany it:

[ Code Removed - See source at site ]

You'll see I added a function (sanitizeHTML) that takes at least 1 argument, the text to sanitize. The second, and optional, argument is an array of allowed tags like: array('b','i','em','strong','p','a','script'); The third, and optional, argument is whether or not to make URLs links. If it's true, it will take any URL and make it a link, otherwise it will leave them alone.

[ldf]

Did you mean for it not send a comment if you didn't select any games? Or is that a bug?

Also i've seen "requests" wanted the amount of Wii points converted to dollar (amounts) like Your selections would cost 4000 Wii Points. would cost $40 (American) dollars.

[bpat1434]

It won't show it as an error, rather just the form to fill in again. I guess you could call it a bug, but it's not that hard to add the functionality. Just another if(){} statement.

As for the actual cost, I don't know the current valuation of points to dollars. Microsoft does like 850 points for $14, and then when you get to 1000 it's like 12.95 or whatever. So there's no steady 500 points for $5. That's something you'd have to link to.

What you could do (I guess) is to constantly update the prices manually, or get an RSS feed. Then just get the Least Amount Needed to have a larger supply of points (i.e. if it would cost 875 points, you'd be best to get 1000, or 850 and 100).

Since you don't know what each person is going to want, and I'm sure that it's a sliding scale of prices, it'd be tough to do.

[ldf]

Actually the price is very simple. Unlike Microsoft, 500 wii points = 5 dollars, 1,000 points = 10 dollars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Console#pricing Shows the price(s) & what-not.

if I think of more later i'll probably post.

[bpat1434]

Well, since it will be "static", then you could just take the number of points, divide by 100 (as each point is $0.01) and then display the price.

So if I'm over by 440 points, divided by 100 is 4.40, or $4.40 (or 440 cents).