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Showing posts with label future plans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label future plans. Show all posts

Monday, September 28, 2009

Adding Quick start

I'd like to have something on the Gamevault that gives the user a different opportunity for browsing games than using a list. Therefore I introduce the quick start button!

currently you can find the test page here: http://the-gamevault.com/quick.php
So, how does it work? It's pretty simple as it is now. The script takes every checked box and find a match in the file databases. Then it adds all the "good" games up in a string and takes a random game, which I'll redirect to with some Javascript.

But I have bigger plans! Currently the game database runs on a couple of simple text files, because my old host was without mySQL databases. When I get that database converted to SQL, I'll implent the quick start system as it really should be!


It should work like a clickable matrixsystem, where you can click everywhere in this square to get a game. Also, I plan to add a rating parameter which means you should could specify that you only want games with a rating better than 4 etc. This combined with the current system with game genres should provide a nice quick start where users quickly can get what they want.

Now I just need to convert to whole database to mySQL, and I don't really know the SQL language yet...