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Well, almost two years ago I posted a topic here asking for help for my text based game. I was told to go actually learn the language (go figure) so i familiarized myself with php between school and work. At this point I can mostly read it, but I can't write. My friend, however, actually know the language and decided to help with my project, so I can learn as I go.Now, here is a dilema we have reached. Almost all of the basics are functional, except for the forums. At the moment we have an off-site forum working, but that requires seperate registartion, and has no links around the site. I want a message board, doesn't need to be anything fancy, for the members to come and chat, so on etc. I would like it to be on-site, with all the game headers etc. still there so that they are still playing the game while in the forums. I am pretty sure you all know what I am talking about.Most text-based games have this, but I cannot find a file for this anywhere on google. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough or I totally missed it, most likely the latter since i pent about 2 hours yesterday trying to find a php file to use for the message boards.Anyone have a link to a free php file that would suit my needs? Or willing to share theirs? I would like to allow use of BBCode.

Well, I tried re-installing and it did say that two prts were in use (port 80 for apache, and prt something or another for mysql).How do I clear up these ports? I don't seem to see anything that xampp has to offer to clear them up on its own. In fact, xammp seems completly different then the first time I used it a few months back.

Well, it's been a few months but I found a free version of a game and downloaded it. I would now like to upload it to a program and test it out, so I re-read through this thread and came across a small problem.Both wampserver and Xampp are not running properly. Wampserver won't open, so I kept reading and saw to use xampp. When I try using that I click on the "admin" icons only to be brought to a "page load error" screen.Are these two programs outdated now?

I do not have a ready-for-use environment, and I do want to write up my own programming, but I would like some basic codes to familiarize myself with the programming itself before just jumping headfirst into it.

Okay, sweet. How can I start up a game folder? I was advised not to go to McCodes, and so far all my search results have brought me there.

I got it up and running.Now I am working on collecting some codes to get a basic version of the game running on my computer. ow do I get these codes put into the sytem, and then how do I do a test run to see if they worked?

I am on Windows Vista. :mellow:Wampserver? Is it a free and legal program I can download and use? And is that all I will need to rite up my game and upload it to the host?EDIT: I found wampserver and downloaded it. Now it won't open. The computer acts as if it opens the file, but nothing happens.

That sounds great, thanks! :mellow:Also, can I test all my coding on my computer as if it were a browser based text game before uploading the files? That would seem most appropriate to... experiment and play around with.

I have read Convictlife's guide, and still don't know where to start. I made my own thread because some of the other threads are a little older so I had no idea if I would get help or not.I will ask my questions one post at a time, and only ask a new question. I am doing it this way since making a game is very intimidating.First off I need a host to start putting codes onto. I signed up here because this site is a host if I am not mistaken. How do I get started to put up some codes?

I should probably start off with how I found this siteI found this site when I used ask.com to look up methods of making an online text-based RPG. I had no idea where tobegin, so my search for answers eventually brought me here. I am quite pleased with the site, and look forward to getting started here.If anyone has any experience and can help me out than drop a message. I have NO idea where to begin. If you don't know how to help me, just say hi if you want. I won't bite... much.