*Save Game*

[boredaholic]

ok i want to save like hit point and happiness points to a file on my server. to where they login and they start from where they were at.

What im doing is making an online feedable pet. but i need it to where the click the pet to login *no pass* and then feed the pet, play with the pet, click the pet to save what they did then come back later to find they need to feed it again. i dont have knowlege in php to do that but i figured i could make a save file for flash... how do i do that? i know it can be done... i just dont know how.

Please explain step by step.

Thank you.

 

[kennethkawamoto]

Are you talking about SharedObject?
If so: AS2 <

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00002118.html>

AS3 <

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00002118.html>

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[kennethkawamoto]

I meant: AS3 <

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/net/SharedObject.html>

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[boredaholic]

YES EXACTLY!!! please help me set it up... im a little stupid at the moment lol...

 

[kennethkawamoto]

Say you want to store a pet name in a SharedObject "petStatus".

The following reads a SharedObject - but if there isn't one it will create one. Then try reading "petName". If "petName" isn't set, it will set it to "Bob":

var so:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("petStatus");
if (so.data.petName == undefined) {
	so.data.petName = "Bob";
	so.flush();
} else {
	trace(so.data.petName);
}

The first time you run this code you'll get nothing because the SharedObject does not exist. But the second time onwards you'll get "Bob".

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[boredaholic]

ok so for the hp bar i would have to do this

var so:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("petStatus");
if (so.data.hpbar == undefined) {
so.data.hpbar = "HPB";
so.flush();
} else {
trace(so.data.petName);
}

???

and then the same for the happy bar? if so then how does this.... uh... how does this save it on the server?

 

[boredaholic]

oops i forgot to change the last petName to hpbar... oh well you get the idea. I understand it says local... that mean it finds it on the persons pc's cache or w/e? or would it be on the internet? like my server's file?

 

[kennethkawamoto]

SharedObject is a local text file, just like a browser cookie. If you want to store data in the server, you have to write a server-side script (PHP, Perl, etc)

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[boredaholic]

where do i put that local thing? that local stuff will work fine... thanks

 

[kennethkawamoto]

Do you mean the code? You can put it anywhere.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[boredaholic]

yes the code... and thanks ill check to see if it works.