I just got into this a few months back, and once you get going, it's really not hard at all, and provides oodles of functionality (I'll list some examples later) :D I don't remember where I got the initial kickstart from for my help, but I believe it was from an old posting on the subject in the mudconnector forums, just go there and search for mysql... I use 1 connection to the db for the entire mud process, and leave the handler open during all of gameplay, instead of reopening and closing it each time I need to update or add something to a db... so far I've got pfiles in, socials, notes, help files, and most of the structures for the *_index_data so that I can start working toward saving area and world state data across reboots... plus, this way, I can have a mud that is truly able to interface with a web site once I get that going, as php and mysql are quite friendly together, so I can have people querying for who's online from the web, or logging into the site to check or leave notes, or the entire help database, or whatever, maybe even a web version of OLC at some point... so I'd start in mudconnector to get the initial function calls and learn how to attach to a db, then I'd spend a bit of time on the dev.mysql.com site searching for what functions you need like mysql_fetch_row and mysql_free_result and whatnot... hope that helps some :)
Richard Lindsey -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 11:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: MySql Someone please help lol, I'm so lost.... I need a decently detailed explanation on how to integrate mysql into ROM. I learned a bit of Oracle SQL in school, atleast enough to know about queries and whatnot, so I basicly am just looking for a detailed explanation how all the steps involved in getting the connections and what files I need and whatnot, I'll download a snippet for ban or helpfiles or something then custimize from that point, I'm hoping to get atleast pfiles in, hopefully one day I'll get areas and whatnot. -- ROM mailing list [email protected] http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom
