Lost in the Sauce

beanman1

Don't even know if this is gonna make much sense, but here it goes anyway.

I'm wanting to make a dice roller for a message board based RPG my wife and I run. I'm VERY green when it comes to working with php and MySQL. (Have only done some basic form handling with php.) What I'm wanting to do is basically have a form with only a few fields (name, number of dice, description) and have that information archived in a table below the form.

(Here's a shining example of what I want to do.)

Problem is, I don't have the foggiest idea where to even get started. Can anyone possably help me out some?

NogDog

Don't know how close it is to what you want (since I can't view it in the link you posted without logging in), but here's something I did at least a couple of years ago. It includes a link to view the source code.

http://www.charles-reace.com/Hobbies/PHP_Dice_Roller/index.php

beanman1

That's nice lookin'. Now the only thing is that I'd need to archive all the rolls in a database and have them listed in a table below the roller.

madwormer2

There are two 19s on your dice NogDog 😉

beanman1

Here's another example of what I'm wanting to build since the last one needed ya to log in to see it.

NogDog

It's unlikely that anyone here is going to walk you through (or simply write) an entire application for you. If you have no idea at all where to start, then you should probably start by getting a good learning PHP & MySQL book and spend a week or two with it; then come back to us with specific questions for parts where you get stuck.

Alternatively, you could search the various on-line code repositories and see if you can find a 3rd-party app that does what you need. Or perhaps you contact the people who operate the sites you've provided as examples to see if they'd be willing to share their code with you.

(If I've misunderstood your level of PHP knowledge, then let me point you to the [man]mt_rand/man function to get you started.)

beanman1

Well, my php knowledge is fairly limited. Like I said in the initial post, I've only used it to do some simple form handling before and really haven't delved into the writing of functions yet.

With that said I did know anout the mt_rand(1,10), but I'm not sure how to write it so that you can have the function run a specific number of times.

Say I want to have it roll 3 dice - How would I get it to loop so I get 3 seperate values rather than a total?

I'm fairly confident that I can butcher my way through the coding eventually, it's the auto updating table I have not clue 1 how to manage. Any pointers there would be greatly appreciated.