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mateuszwolski2
mateuszwolski2
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Posted by mateuszwolski2
mateuszwolski2
5,504 Points

Confused about what technology use for saving data on web game.

Hi treehouse ! I'm planing to start a small project of simple web game. The thing is I would like to use HTML5 / CSS and JavaScript. But I have been wondering what technology should I use for storing the data (like attributes of heroes, charackter levels etc ...) Now I know about PHP and MySQL and that would solve my problem hovewer is it good idea to start work with those technologies ? Is there any other frameworks which are solving this problem and are more recent or maybe dedicated to work with stored data for web game dev ?

1 Answer

Austin Whipple
Austin Whipple
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Austin Whipple
Austin Whipple
29,725 Points

PHP and MySQL will do the job and are still used fairly often for old or new projects. Essentially what you need is:

  • A place to save the data.
  • A programming language that runs on the server and can interact with that data to pass it to the browser.

A database will address the first bullet and MySQL is a sure bet. Some server-side languages you can use (that are a little newer and trendier than PHP) include Python, Ruby (or Ruby on Rails), and even Node.js which is JavaScript run on a server rather than browser.

mateuszwolski2
mateuszwolski2
5,504 Points
mateuszwolski2
mateuszwolski2
5,504 Points

Perfect ! I just want to be sure I'm not wasting a time for learning a framework witch is ancient. I'm still newbie in this area of programming or it's better to say querying. Thank's a lote Austin !