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Posted by Amaris Moore
Amaris Moore
30 Points

How can I send points?

Hello. I am currently designing basic web pages, and I have been doing it for 3 years. The only thing I wanted to know is sending data from one webpage to another. For example, I wanted to make a game website to where you play games for points, and when you get the points, it goes to your account. Does this make sense. Another example: This website called Neopets has a feature to where you play games and earn nepoints from it, and you can use them to buy items for your Neopet. That is what I want to know, how can I put points, money or whatever I call it into my account or others for playing games? Thanks.

1 Answer

Emma Willmann
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Emma Willmann
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Emma Willmann
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Emma Willmann
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Well, this is a bit beyond what I have learned so far, but my thought would be you would need a database to keep track of accounts and points. Then you would also need to use a server-side language like PHP so your game could communicate with that database.

Amaris Moore
Amaris Moore
30 Points

Oh ok, that makes more sense.

Amaris Moore
Amaris Moore
30 Points

Also, do you know any PHPs that I can use

Emma Willmann
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Emma Willmann
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PHP is a language itself and there are courses on here for that. Other options might be Ruby or Python, which there are courses for, too. I've only learned a little bit of PHP so far and none of the others, so I'm not sure what might be best.

Amaris Moore
Amaris Moore
30 Points

ok. Thank you!