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| dog199200
Guest | | Flat File Server Help :-/ (26th Dec 09 at 12:41pm UTC) | | Hi everyone,
I'm juts wondering, but does anyone here know how to read and write to a flatfile system The company that is developing the game engine i'm using to make my game has decided to completely void out the use of a MySQL database and it turning their whole system into a flat file server system, and honestly I have no idea how to write to it  and no one there will even give me an idea how to go about it. With MySQL i could just take the submitted values and send them to my servers database for the game to call off of, but i can't do it anymore i'm so confused on how i'm going to get the accounts for my game to be sent to the game server lol | |
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pmvForum | | Re: Flat File Server Help :-/ (26th Dec 09 at 8:24pm UTC) | | If you use PHP then you can use a simple fread() and fwrite() etc. Functions. What I don't get is why they'd do that. Is there not an alternate game engine that you can use?
Would be better perhaps to write your own.  | |
| dog199200
Guest | | Re: Flat File Server Help :-/ (26th Dec 09 at 9:38pm UTC) | | Ok that work if I know the binary encryption they used..... and they wont tell me.. Also the reason why they are doing it is because is "Using a MySQL database is less secure then a using flatfile systems. MySQL cause cost more and is a big waste of resources. Decreasing the performance of the software."... As for alternative game engines. Professional game engines are not cheap. I paid $300 for the one i'm using now, and thats very cheap. I haven't found any free engines that are even worth using. But honestly I find MySQL be to more secure then flat file. Yes MySQL is a big flat file, but it is encrypted, here the flatfile can just be read, flat out when looking at the files. Plus the MySQL database has its own password, so even if the server got hacked into it wouldn't matter, cause they would have to crack the database to get the information. Plus with MySQL you can call information from it to internal and external sources, plus its very easy to write to. Where using a flatfile server that has a special writing encryption, it makes it hard to write to it, let alone even just calling the select data that your looking to call.
As I said before, i'm not comfortable enough with my .Net programming skills unless I would. Building the GUI would be easy. I would do all that in Visual C++ and then hard code all the features and functions. I'm sure I could at least get a good start, but i'm just not sure If I'd be able to finish it. I've considered using the one built into Blender, but I haven't coded in Python much, and what I have coded was a long while ago.
Edit: If you want I can upload one of the files and send it to you so you can see exactly what I mean by they have made it extremely hard to work with. | |
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