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Hi I was considering the benfits of moving area and player files into a mySQL database for storage. Because mySQL's PHP API, it wasn't long before we were thinking about creating p-files on our web-site. Now, this doesn't REQUIRE mySQL for p-files, because it wouldn't be hard to pump the necessary input directly into the MUD via a simple socket(). I just wondered what kind of experiences people have had with this. My biggest fear is that everyone's gonna want to experiment with this feature leaving a bunch of zombie characters in ...

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02-22-2003, 09:31 PM	#1
xanes New Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 29	Hi I was considering the benfits of moving area and player files into a mySQL database for storage. Because mySQL's PHP API, it wasn't long before we were thinking about creating p-files on our web-site. Now, this doesn't REQUIRE mySQL for p-files, because it wouldn't be hard to pump the necessary input directly into the MUD via a simple socket(). I just wondered what kind of experiences people have had with this. My biggest fear is that everyone's gonna want to experiment with this feature leaving a bunch of zombie characters in the DB. Thoughts?

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