PHP Gaming
 

Any one here created an online PHP game or have ideas of putting one into motion.

By online PHP game i mean actually a big game that has a community and everyone plays this PHP coded game?

This just really interested me, would be good to see if anyone here has played them or had ideas to make one :-D

Flash and Java (not JS) plugins are for games and rich content, PHP is a scripting language.

Well flash and Java are both scripting languages aswell and can be used for both games and web based applications alot like PHP. Flash being Action Script. :-P

indeed dont forget java runs through a virtual machine.

By PHP he means games like Outwar MMORPG - Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. where it is primarily text and image based.

Travian - Browser Game - Romans, Gauls & Teutons = PHP game.

And it's quite successful too.
However, I think that to make a really good game, you would have to use flash or java.

Best games is ofcourse coded into a .exe file. But internet games can be successful aswell, if you're lucky.

Yes, but they output far differently. PHP compiles, runs and thats it, flash and java are interactive.

There's no reason at all why PHP can't be used in conjunction with Flash, JS, Java, etc. I've never really looked into creating online games in any detail so can't be of use in locating examples.

I've been hoping to do one within the future years for a while now :D

And like salathe mentioned above, Flash, JS, & PHP can easilly be used together :p

Yeah i agree and i think i will look into it to be honest, might be a good thing to try and do :-D

In my Opinion, Flash, Javascript, and PHP is the perfect combination for making a Web Based game!

I created minesweeper in PHP and Javascript once. Although it's a while ago and the code is quite bad, but it works perfectly - and everything is randomised!

I'm currently (again) into OGame. OGame.co.uk, OGame.nl, OGame.be, it all works. Even Czech and French versions are out already. Next to that, I've played a lot Kings of Chaos.

A mate and myself where once thinking of putting a game like that together. It's a modern warfare, iraqi based wargame called Operation Takedown. We've put together a large flowchart but never really came around to making it.