[Trilite] New Contest

A new contest has been released. In this newest challenge you are to play a game head to head with other scripts. The game is like Tic-Tac-Toe, but with a higher degree of difficulty. We also have a new sponsor for the contests, NuSpehere - the makers of PHPed. Macromedia has also upgraded their prize from Dreamweaver MX to Studio MX! Below is a list of all prizes in the contest:

a copy of Zend Studio 2.5
a copy of Macromedia Studio MX
a Zend T-shirt
1 month free hosting from TheHostingCompany.us. (Platinum Package)
2 domain names (.com, .net, or .org) for one year each from Dom-Daniel.
a one year subscription to php|architect
A Codewalkers PHP Coding Contest Winner t-shirt from CafePress.
Any book from O'Reilly
A copy of Sourceguardian Pro. The runner up gets a copy of Sourceguardian.
The third place winner will get a Developer's Edition of Template Tamer.
Best Judging Script gets a copy of PHPEd.


Good luck to all! The deadline for submission on this one is May 5, 2003.

Excuse me, I'm just a beginner in PHP.

Could you tell me, how should script save data about board between executings (As I understand all data not saved in file will be flushed after running script and when next move will be asked for the script will have no info about board)

Or I have to use files?

Best regards

Your script can write to the directory in which it resides. So, you can write data to a file.

Yeah, I know it.

I ask whether there is any other opportunity to do this.

Great contest!

Will my script be in the same dir as an opponent's script? (I assume not, because otherwise our scripts might overwrite each other's files.)

No they will be in different directories.

OMFG!

NICE Prizes Matt! I think I'll do this contest. I gave up on the last one because I couldn't implement the collapse fast enough. Luckily, this time we get 30 seconds per MOVE! Not as much to worry about the implementation speed now.


However, for the judging script prize, how do we submit it? Do we submit it in the PHP code area? We did that for the Capture-the-flag one, but then someone might copy-and-paste someone else's code, so we might have to email it to you separately.


And one more suggestion:
Can there be some way we can store the results of the games we've played. IE, if we realize we've tied for quite a bit, we might want to try a more risky move, etc.

The judging script should be submitted just as another script would be.

I am currently thinking about allowing some more persistent data to be saved. I will make a decision later this evening.