how to go about this...

[sanderson]

hi,

sorry if i sound a bit stupid. i'm creating a simple text based game and i'm planning to make it all flat file. i need to create a timer for eggs to hatch e.g.

user buys a egg > gets put in incubator (page) for 10mins > then moves page (because its hatched)

i was planning to when a user buys a egg add a bit to the users txt file so, || egg || type || time left = 10 or somthing..

sorry if im explaining this badly, but i need the time left in the text file to update even if the user is offline so is this possible?

[djjjozsi]

why don't you use database?

You can store the user's details in well planned tables.
if the user has an egg, and you cold store he egg's status as well.

if the user is offline , then he/she will get a message if the egg last incubator time and the logging time is bigger that 10 minutes.

If you use files, then create egg file for every user. and you could compare the times with time funtions (www.php.net)

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