09-18-2008, 04:08 PM
Well, I'd like to see what we were hoping to achieve with the SA-MP LVP 3.0 update on the website (registration of gangs, usercp) with 2.90. As you said, a per-user preferences system would be neat. I've already created the system, however it is quite limited due to SA-MP's restrictions, and I don't like it too much. Everything has to save as a string in order to avoid bugs and have a more generic handler to have wider support. I was thinking of actually importing the user files into a database - faster. But then, we wouldn't be able to edit them easily.
A MySQL database can easily be accessed remotely, and would mean we can use ONE server to save all of LVP's data, as 3.0 on MTA does. Meaning local and remote servers alike can both use the same databases. Perhaps even a sync of properties every few minutes? Perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself here..
In a nutshell: I'm all for this. I'd be happy to help script in either Pawn or PHP, and I think that we needn't wait for a 3.0 which probably won't be released in order to add some cool things.
What I'll do with the current database is commit the base code for others to see and stuff, but they'll be unused for now. If we go ahead with this MySQL idea, I'll simply remove the code. I'm not going to continue with the database as .. it's probably pointless.
A MySQL database can easily be accessed remotely, and would mean we can use ONE server to save all of LVP's data, as 3.0 on MTA does. Meaning local and remote servers alike can both use the same databases. Perhaps even a sync of properties every few minutes? Perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself here..
In a nutshell: I'm all for this. I'd be happy to help script in either Pawn or PHP, and I think that we needn't wait for a 3.0 which probably won't be released in order to add some cool things.
What I'll do with the current database is commit the base code for others to see and stuff, but they'll be unused for now. If we go ahead with this MySQL idea, I'll simply remove the code. I'm not going to continue with the database as .. it's probably pointless.