For a game..

[DragonFate]

Hey guys, I stopped by for a bit of help form the community. Hope someone can help.

To make a long story short.. I found an open source game engine and I have been modding it for the last few days. However, I let one of my friends play it and he doesn't seem to like the way the fight system works.

At the moment, the script is setup to randomize fights using random event (1-5) chance of fighting a monster.

As of right now, the script is setup to where users have a (1-5) chance of fighting a monster. I would like to change the script to where users can fight monsters on command.

Like for instance, have a drop down list that displays a few monsters and then the user can select it and click "Fight", which would take you to the fight function.

The thing is, I don't know where to begin.

I know you guys won't be able to help unless you see the code, but the code is available to all at: http://dragon.se7enet.com/dev.php

If anyone has any experience with this source, please reply?

I know I am probably not going to get any help just because most people have never even used this script, however I am willing to test my luck.

[johanafm]

Without looking at the code, I'm guessing that the user clicks a button or a link to activate the random chance of a fight. If it's a submit button, it's wrapped in an html form element

<form action="url to script (possibly empty if posting to the url that displayed this page)"
method="GET or POST">
	<div>
		<input type="submit" name="name corresponding to $_GET or $_POST array element" value="text of button" />
	</div>
</form>

The processing script most likely somewhere contains either rand(1, 5) or mt_rand(1, 5), or using the parameters 0, 4. This is used to decide if a fight takes place or not.

What you need to do instead is create a form element with a select element and a submit button, or use several links, one for each option.

<form method="" action="POST">
	<div>
		<select name="option">
			<option value="1">Text for option 1</option>
			<option value="2">Text for option 2</option>
			<option value="3">Text for option 3</option>
		</select>
	</div>
	<div>
		<input type="submit" value="Fight" name="submit" />
	</div>
</form>

And in the script that recieves the post request

# Check if the submit button (which was given the name "submit") was clicked
if (isset($_POST['submit']))
{
	# Use the value from the select element named "option"
	$option = (int) $_POST['option'];
	switch ($option)
	{
		case 1:
			doStuff(1);
			break;
		case 2:
			doStuff(2);
			break;
		case 3:
			somethingElse();
			break;
	}
}