Small games does not equal lower quality. Many small games have very high quality precisely because they are small and a lot of time (relatively) can be spent on polish, testing etc.

IMO, if your intention is to flood Steam with games of questionable quality, you should feel at least a little bad.

Use $_GET.

Probably something like <?php         $plSector = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(*) AS num_planets FROM planets WHERE sector_id='$sector"); //assuming $sector is the sector id of the ship         $numPl = mysql_fetch_array($plSector);         $num_planets = $numPl["num_planets"];    ...

Probably something like <?php         $plSector = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(*) AS num_planets FROM planets WHERE sector_id='$sector"); //assuming $sector is the sector id of the ship         $numPl = mysql_fetch_array($plSector);         $num_planets = $numPl["num_planets"];     ...

Yeah, you'll need javascript.

jameshutchings wrote:i) Where can I learn about mysqli?

http://php.net/manual/en/book.mysqli.php

jameshutchings wrote:ii) For now, what do I do to get id, firstname etc?

Do what Chris showed you.

jameshutchings wrote:I forgot to add that there should only be one result for this SELECT.

Your game will only have one character?

Use mysql_error to see why the query is failing.

It's also a good idea to output the query itself to see that it actually looks like you think it looks like.

Looks like a byte order mark (BOM). It's being added by your editor so check your file encoding settings.

SFC wrote:

Winawer wrote:You're missing a call to mysql_connect().

Where?

Before you call mysql_query. You'll also need a call to mysql_select_db.