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Posted by Alexandre on 03/25/05 16:37
Robert Restad wrote:
> I suggest you write a 'tick' engine, which i.e. games like Planetarion
> use.
>
> This should be written in C or C++, compiled... You can run this using
> PHP of course, and run it from command line/shell, but PHP isnt ideal
> for this. If you have a decent server and not too much players (i.e.
> more than a hundred simultaneous players), then PHP will do. Any more
> than this, and I doubt PHP can handle without choking the server.
>
Hello Robert,
First thanks for your answer and your help. I would like to explore this concept
of using the PHP. I mean, I've already coded some small games in C++, and
implementing a game loop is kinda easy, since you have the control of all the
data being processed. But PHP scripts, as I currently know of, are only run when
requested by the client, and the when they finish execution then they're gone. I
never tried, but could it be done a game loop in PHP? I mean like a script I
would start and it would keep running constantly, checking for new commands in a
queue, updating objects status, can it be done or the server would kill it?
Kind regards,
Alex
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