English Word Guessing Game Players Tutorial
Yesterday’s English Word Guessing Game Primer Tutorial‘s “English Word Guessing Game” suited one player. Today, we allow the user to set the number of players to …
- each nominated player plays within an HTML iframe element with an overall HTML table element within an HTML body element … meaning …
- until tomorrow’s work, it is “dog eat dog” as to who controls which player’s textbox has the focus … but …
- scoring is asynchronous
- until tomorrow’s work, the use of the tab character to tab out of a textbox clicks the “Correct?” button to go off to assess that player’s answer
<?php
$score=0;
$goes=0;
$blurb='';
$dblurb="Score: 0/0";
$totalj=0;
$fortyeight="48";
$fortyeighti="";
$fortyeightj="";
$ob="";
$sh3="";
$aic="Am I Correct?";
if (isset($_GET['fortyeight'])) {
$fortyeight=$_GET['fortyeight'];
$fortyeighti="<input type=hidden name=fortyeight value='" . $fortyeight . "'></input>";
$fortyeightj="&fortyeight=" . $fortyeight;
$aic="Correct?";
$ob=" onblur=\" if (this.value.trim() != '') { document.getElementById('subm').click(); } \" ";
$sh3=" style='display:none;'";
}
if (isset($_GET['numplayers'])) {
$preifs="<html>
<head><title>What Is The English Word - RJM Programming - February, 2022</title>
</head><body style='background-color:yellow;'><table style='width:100%;' border=20><tr><th colspan=2>Player</th></tr><tr><th>Number</th><th>Game</th></tr></table></body></html>";
for ($ih=1; $ih<=$_GET['numplayers']; $ih++) {
$preifs=str_replace("</table>", "<tr><td style=text-align:center;>" . $ih . "</td><td><iframe src='./what_is_the_english_word.php?fortyeight=24' style='width:100%;height:200px;'></iframe></table>", $preifs);
}
echo $preifs;
exit;
}
?>
… the idea of the “fortyeight” code is to reduce the font size in order to fit in more player iframe display into the one shared screen, with the user interfacing code being …
<?php echo ”
<h3" . $sh3 . ">RJM Programming <a title='How many players?' style='cursor:pointer;text-decoration:underline;' onclick=\" var hm=prompt('How many players?','1'); if (hm == null) { hm=''; } if (hm.trim().replace('1','') != '') { location.href=document.URL.split('?')[0].split('#')[0] + '?fortyeight=24&numplayers=' + encodeURIComponent(hm); } \">-</a> February, 2022</h3>
“; ?>
… for the changed what_is_the_english_word.php‘s English Word Guessing Game.
Previous relevant English Word Guessing Game Primer Tutorial is shown below.
English Word Guessing Game Primer Tutorial
Ever so simple! Is that what you want in a Word Game? We like that, but we also like to learn words that might be new to us. How about a …
- English word game …
- based on Linux or unix or macOS dictionary list …
- randomly choosing …
- word length between 5 and 12
- a letter in word
- that letter position in word
- and a clue, thanks to https://crossword-solver.io/clue/
… basis for our word game, today? Well, it’s just “first draft” time for what_is_the_english_word.php‘s English Word Guessing Game, but we think you might like to try it?!
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