Button Question for php

[dave3460]

HI Guys just have a question about a click button i am using for a game i am making.
Works the same way as hall,s forsaken attack button.
what i want to do is make the button loop so when your press it .it will just go through fight process till you or the creatures die,s so you dont have to keep pressing fight again .you will be able to eat so you can reheal during fights.
just not 100% sure do i use a loop or some other piece of codes

[Jackolantern]

Without knowing exactly what you are wanting to do, here is likely how you would want to do a fight loop:

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do {
//fight code
//fight code
} while (monster != dead && player !=dead)

Of course you may have to exchange the end references depending on how player and monster death work, but that is the loop. A "Do-While" loop is guaranteed to execute at least once, whereas a "While" loop is not.

[hallsofvallhalla]

i would use functions instead

psuedo code

button="attack" onclick="playerattack()"

function playerattack()
{
attack code goes here

then at the end
if (creaturehp > 0)
{
creatureattack()
}
}

function creature attack()
{
attack code goes here

then at the end
if (playerhp > 0)
{
playerattack()
}
}

but remember this will go super fast so you need to add in a delay or sleep function between each attack.

[dave3460]

I understand the delay function but what is a sleep function?
I think you guys just add functions to confuse me well it doesnt take much

[hallsofvallhalla]

delay is all you would need

[mrmajic]

can you please give an example containing the 'delay' code..

thanks.

[hallsofvallhalla]

i am sorry i meant sleep()


getting my coding languages confused

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.sleep.php

sleep(5);

[Jackolantern]

i would use functions instead

psuedo code

button="attack" onclick="playerattack()"

function playerattack()
{
attack code goes here

then at the end
if (creaturehp > 0)
{
creatureattack()
}
}

function creature attack()
{
attack code goes here

then at the end
if (playerhp > 0)
{
playerattack()
}
}

but remember this will go super fast so you need to add in a delay or sleep function between each attack.

Wouldn't the function calls take up more server resources than a loop?

[Falken]

Wouldn't it be posisble to calculate the whole fight first in the php, then just let a javascript present it nicely?

Would save alot of power.

[hallsofvallhalla]

Wouldn't it be posisble to calculate the whole fight first in the php, then just let a javascript present it nicely?

Would save alot of power.

that is actually the way I do it Falken. I need to get my first video of my javascript tutorials out.


@Jack
I wouldn't think so. At least not enough to affect anything. Depending how you run your battle the functions would use less because they can be run at anytime and a loop would have to be written over and over. I am not going to lie, I really don't know the answer to that but I would assume it wouldn't be enough to even see or feel the difference.