[Trilite] For Beginners

OK ... here goes ...

I know I'm just a beginner, but this Trilite
thing fascinates me ... so bear with me.

So I create a program called trilite.php

If I want to test it out using your program
judge.php, I would need to duplicate it so
it would emulate there being two programs
against each other. Each program would be
in it's own directory. Each program is named
trilite.php

Now, how does judge.php work? Would I run
judge.php and it handles the initiation and
sending moves etc to each program?

Looking at judge.php, I'm just not sure how
it knows where the programs are located and
how it actually sends the variables.

I must be way lost on this ...

Help us PHP beginners on getting a grip on
this using this post. All other PHP experts
can use the other post for their questions.

Thanks

In the judge.php script there are two variables you can set:

$player[1] = 'http://localhost/etc/player1.php';
$player[2] = 'http://localhost/etc/player2.php';

This is where you set where the two scripts are.

The start judging, call the judging script with ?start=1 attached to it, like so:

http://yourserver.com/judge.php?start=1

Then, the judge.php script will produce a next link for you to click and step through each move...

I get the following failures on the line 80
with the implode().

My player1.php does get the variables and then
I echo my lastmove. Maybe that's where I'm
going wrong ... or, is it something with my
webhost that won't allow this to work.
(www.netfirms.com)

Warning: php_hostconnect: connect failed in /mnt/web_a/d13/s46/a000kg5t/www/judge.php on line 80

Warning: file("http://www.abcfireprotection.com/player1.php?start=1") - Bad file descriptor in /mnt/web_a/d13/s46/a000kg5t/www/judge.php on line 80

Warning: Bad arguments to implode() in /mnt/web_a/d13/s46/a000kg5t/www/judge.php on line 80

Probably safe-mode restriction; that or old version of PHP without http:// handler

I would recommend you install PHP on your home computer and turn off safe mode. Then you won't have to worry about that.

It does take some time to install apache, though... not super-ez, but maybe a couple hours total (mySQL is a breeze to install as a service on Windows and PHP has a windows binary installer)

Oh yes, that darn time consuming apache installation...

Honestly, after executing the installer and answering some questions in the setup wizard you have to manually copy two files and add 3 lines to your configuration file to get your PHP working. Which is very well documented in the readme of PHP.

I just cannot see the difficulties in installing apache on windows machines. Compared to the complications that occur after just altering the default installation path of mysql or the choice whether to use PHP as a SAPI module or CGI and following the according instructions the apache setup is absolutely painless and straightforward. Maybe the most demanding part of installing apache is finding the right file to download at apache headquarters.