how to you make a send score??

[SetroGamer]

EVERY time I ask someone how to make a send score, they either don't answer or say "figure it out yourself". So, can someone PLEASE tell me how to make a send score? I just don't understand how you're supposed to do it! (I don't mean the send scores that take you to a new page either because then people can change their score)

[awligon]

first thing's first... This requires support for some sort of server-side scripting. Does your hosting service offer such support? ie.. php , asp, perl, etc... Also, you're going to need some means of storing information, ie.. mysql, or writing a file. From there, you should decide how you want to process and store the information. I would use php/mysql and write the score to a database, from which you can extract the values and their corrosponding submittors and order them in a high score list. There are many tuts out there and some php/mysql tuts here if you SEARCH!!!!

If you run into problems or have a specific question, feel free to reply or to PM me, but no, I will not "Just write it for you." Give a man a fish.... Teach a man to fish... You get the point.

[SetroGamer]

okay.....lol :P I use PHP and MySQL for my site.

[awligon]

ok, well, what do you need to know then? I don't understand. Didn't mean to imply you were a n00b. :sigh:

What's the question then?

[SetroGamer]

lol. I just don't understand how you use PHP with flash since you can't use PHP in flash and have to put it on the outside. I just don't know how to get the PHP to be part of it. Like, how to get it to know when to do the function and such.

[awligon]

loadVars();

There's a tut about it in the flash mx section I believe.
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/flash_php_mysql.htm

[SetroGamer]

yay! thanks! Just one problem-its not registering what their score was...

[awligon]

yeah, you have to send that data from the game to the db.