Welcome

[Noelle]

Welcome to php Horizons, a fair, friendly community dedicated to the support and understanding of our fellow programmers. Our communal stance is simple, we love code and value the company, conversation and knowledge that like minded people can bring to the Horizons community. We believe there is an answer to every question and a solution to every problem. At Horizons you will never be directed into the dark, cold realm of thoughtless search engines. We believe a forum is a place to learn, share thoughts, and help others in the same quest to better ourselves. No topic is to big. No thought to small. No problem to tough, and no person insignificant on the Horizon.

[Floydian]

Hey folks. I'll keep my introduction short

I'm the guy that runs PHP Horizons and is programming the Horizons Game Engine. I got my start with these online browser games when I found a random link on a forum somewhere that referred me to Torn City. I'm 526 days old over there today and have about 150 million sitting in the bank lol. Feel free to drool if you're a poor person on tc and feel free to mock me if you're rich.

I got to thinking one day that I could do a lot better with a game site than these other folks, so I decided to make a game. I didn't know about mccodes back then and I'm glad I didn't. I just started learning PHP (already knew HTML) and got to work on making a login page. Of course I had to make an account by directly editing the database lol. Since then I've made 10 or so complete login/registration pages. Each one better than the last. The culmination of my efforts is the Horizons Game Engine. It's the small things that really set it apart. For instance, suppose your registering for a game, and you put in a password that is too short. Normally, you'd see an error message with a link to go back. With the Horizons Engine, we automatically take you back to the previous page, highlight the form field that was in error, and display a nicely formatted error message. In fact, if three or four form fields are in error, each one of them will be highlighted, and an error message will tell you what's wrong with each of them.

But that's not all! (insert cheesy infomercial music here) The login and registration forms have the first field set with "focus". That means a cursor is already in the text box. If you have your browser set to auto fill in login forms, then after loading the login page, all you have to do is hit enter, and you're logged in. Yes, on Opera, the wand negates any advantage that that gives, but that is not the case in firefox and internet explorer. And the last thing I'll mention about the login/reg page is that once you have registered, most games require you to fill in the login form and login. Well, you've already filled in a registration form, why not just log the user in? Well, that's what horizons does. However, if the config setting for "require email validation" is set "ON", then users will not be logged in automatically, but they will be required to activate their account first.



Anyways, if you really want to know someone, I think that knowing what kind of work they do says a lot.

Enjoy the forums, and see ya around!

[blue]

Hey all! Im Will. Most people know me as blue. I have owned numerous games, I first started with a paid copy of mccodes i bought from coldblood. I was a Admin on Torn City and Criminal Country for a long time before _Eagle (Rob) told me about MCCODES. Which i contacted ColdBlooded and Dabs and bought my copy. My first game was Nation Wars. Which at this time was one of the few games like this out. Shooting up the charts on all voting sites NW become listed as #3 on most voting sites, Right below Torn City and Hobowars (We all know they both have hundreds of thousands of players). I pushed NW to its peak having anywhere from 150 to 250 people online within 15 minutes we was rocking. As time went by it died down and i ended selling NW to a lady admin that had played NW for years. NW is still standing today, But is a ghost town. Now i own http://www.chaoticworlds.net and http://www.worldofconflict.net. Both offer a different look, feel and game play.

Thanks for allowing me to sign up and check out your forums.

[Floydian]

Sure thing blue

Nice to meet ya and I'll cya around.