Ok, I admit it - Im totally pants at writing coding, but I have decided to give it a go!

What Im looking at doing is using php (think its php, anyway!) to pull details from a high score list of an MMORPG I play regularly (runescape, if its any help - www.runescape.com) and into a mini application to calculate the number of times you have to do a particular skill in order to increase your level.

However, as I have pointed out, my coding skills are virtually non-existant! :-( I know it can be done (as there are other calculators out there that can do this task, but I would like to give it a go for myself), but as a coding noob I really dont know where to begin!

Anyone got any ideas? I was hoping to use MS Visual Studio to do the coding work, and I can set up all the forms etc from there.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hmm... If you're thinking of using PHP, then it's possibly because you want this information to also exist online in a webpage?

Otherwise depending on your Visual Studio programming (what language by the way?) you could just do it within that program and create a desktop application for it or even use it to write the page to put online. Many ways to do it.

You say there are already these calculators, if there's any particulars ones that you know of do what you want (select as many of them as you like). Then it'd probably help me understand what the aim of this idea would be to do and I might be able to help with telling you how to go about it and whether the language you want to use would be suitable, etc.


Cheers,

MC

http://www.zybez.net/calcs.php

That's one of the most complex, but there are a lot more on IRC.

On that forum (you'll need 50 posts) there is a php script that does what you want.

Huh.... First of all, u're intending to make a runescape-like online-game, right?
Then, your work would consist of 2 parts:
1)Static part, can be Java or Flash. It would be on each user's computer ant it will be only sending data(variables, etc) to the server. And will also get data from the server and convert it to suitable for user view.
2)Dynamic part, would be placed on server(PHP,c,c++,Perl,ASP etc...) would be getting data from users, proceeding it, storing, and giving respond to the ser.
So, you gotta know all these;) I't not that easy, man)

In response to the last post. I don't think this is what he requires. Re-Read his post and mastercomputers post. I believe he wants a calculator to retrieve statistics and numbers from the game. I would have to see one of the calculators in action to fully understand the project.

If you want it for personal use then perhaps an app coded with VB or something would be more appropriate. I like web programming with php, but how would you retrieve those numbers? How would someone have access to those or do you know tha algorithm to generate the numbers? The more insight to the project we have the better we can evaluate the scope giving you a better project definition.

Good luck with it.

Hmm... Another runescape help website... I find it funny that there are more runescape tutorial sites than there are phpbb forums on the web. You could just find a site that already has a calculator for runescape and link to it (assuming you follow all copyright laws). But if you wan't to make your own code, it will take a while and you would pretty much have to beat the game so good that it wouldn't even matter to make a calculator (to get all the exp info). Good luck though could you please P.M. me your site url (I always like to look at new sites and see how there going).