I’m sure if you’re reading this thread you’ve seen my footer. How would I have something that would save the highscore (like in your game)?
Sorry buddy, didn’t see that post. I was busy changing crap on my site. Okay, here we go: Coppertop asked me about this once, and I went into great detail about the PHP script that I used, but nothing about the movie part. It’s here:
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=217&perpage=15&highlight=high%20score&pagenumber=1
The thread kind of died because I went to my high school reunion and have been drunk, I mean, preoccupied ever since…
Just kidding!!
If you want, because it might be a smart thing to do seeing that others were interested; maybe I’ll write another tutorial explaining it. Mods? Kirupa? I’m thinking again… In either case, post questions, I’ll answer them to the best of my ability.
Ok, Firstly (this is gonna sound really dumb) what is PHP and what program do I need?
That’s not dumb. No more than about 8 months ago, I didn’t know what pre-processed hypertext was either (I’m a dork…:P) PHP, along with ASP, JSP, CGI, etc, are all server side scripting languages. Basically, it uses your server that holds your webspace to run programs for you. Check out the server/side scripting section of the forums here or www.php.net for more info on PHP.
MySQL is a database that can be acessed easily using scripts in PHP. You’ll need some understanding in the language and also have to make sure your server supports PHP. Most do for free and it’s already there. PHP is used a lot, like this forum for instance is written entirely in PHP (see address bar).
It’s pretty easy to learn (I think). It’s a lot like any of the other languages out there except your vars all start with dollar signs and there’s a bunch of cool commands you can use to read IPs and create/destroy text files/MySQL enteries, etc.
I’m stepping away for a while. I’ve been playing with the car thing you have. You have the right idea (drawing API), but needs a lot of tweeking and targeting. I’ll play with it further when I get home.
If you have qs. lemme know. 
Thank very much for the explaination and for having a look at my car thing. I’ll research PHP first and I really do hope you can get the car thing going. Thanks again
