PHPoker - Concepts and ideas

[Mr Macro]

Ok, I'm thinking of making a text based poker game.I was thinking about this and was actually thinking is it possible.The most daunting task i think is randomly out-putting the cards.I don't think I could really do it using rand();

Another thing is connecting the players together on a 9 seat table.If their is more than 9 players then somehow they will need to be sat at another table and other players seated at that table until its full then moving onto another table.

Then comes the actual problem of the game being text (and image) based.They all won't refresh with the new content at the same time.This isn't really the biggest of problems, as it could be overcome with a little time and effort.

So, what do you guys think.Hw would i get round these errors.

Thanks,
James

[RichardKnox]

PM me your MSN. I may have somewhere you can try this.

[Dentafrice,]

ajax? ..

[Mr Macro]

Can you be more specific please ?

[Invent]

Would be rather easy to update the stuff using AJAX.

Just run a javascript function every 10 seconds or so and then just use document.getElementById("").innerHTML to update the information.

The project shouldn't be amazingly hard.

[RichardKnox]

I think what you forget Simon, possibly because you don't play poker, is that you have to create a database of every single combination of every single poker hand for each suit and for cross suits. It's not going to be hard, just a pain in the ***

[Tomm]

You need to make the script "intelligent" as you can't code you every possible outcome. Also rand(); is perfectly capable of what you want to do (Number each of the cards in the pack and then use rand to randomly select cards in the pack).

I think what you forget Simon, possibly because you don't play poker, is that you have to create a database of every single combination of every single poker hand for each suit and for cross suits. It's not going to be hard, just a pain in the ***

[Mr Macro]

Thanks, I'm going to start coding when i break up from school.

[Oni]

Should be good , although im sure there are many out there, what makes this unique?

[Luckyrare]

Dealing the cards randomly is easy, making sure they are unique is the hard part. I can think of a way of doing it but it would be pretty heavy.

EDIT: The best way of making sure that you dont deal the same card would be to have each game a "game_id" then logging each card with the a collum with the "game_id". Then before each saving of the card checking if it had been dealt in that game.