New to the site - Interested in meeting people

[kaos78414]

First off, hello all! My name's Jonathon. I recently began (mostly as a hobby project) the planning phases for a browser based MMORPG. So far, only a few of my ideas are concrete, but I'll get to that later.

I stumbled across one of the tutorial videos on youtube and I so had to check out this website. I have a few questions though; firstly, I was hoping to be able to use this site to meet like-minded people, and discuss things like feature sets, classes, game mechanics, frameworks, platforms and other aspects of a browser based, or any MMO game for that matter. And, if at all possible, maybe get some people on board!

A little about me: I'm a (somewhat) experienced PHP developer. I've been using CodeIgniter for the past year, and I absolutely love how much it speeds development. I'd like to utilize it in my projects. I am pretty fluent with Javascript, and I mostly use jQuery and plugins to provide me with functionality that I need (for speed purposes).

Anyway, hi all! Just wanted to introduce myself!

[Jackolantern]

Welcome! I have never used CodeIgnitor before, but after looking at the website, it looks pretty neat and I may check it out. Thanks!

[Jony]

Hi,

First of all Welcome to the site.

2ndly, you are in the right place, there are some strong programmers here with who you can discuss all those matters that interest you.

[kaos78414]

@jackolantern:
Yeah, CodeIgniter is an awesome framework. It really speeds up development. Once you start using MVC and active record queries, you can't believe you ever lived without it.

I will say that it's not as feature heavy as some of the other PHP frameworks. It doesn't have an auth. library, but to me that's perfect because features like that it seems to me you'd want to build yourself.

BTW, you're from Houston I see? I'm from Corpus Christi! I hear its raining in Houston right now

@Jony
I browsed the site abit and all I can say is YAY! I think I've found a forum I'll actually stay with! Just small enough where your posts don't get ignored, and large enough for constant activity.

[Jackolantern]

Nice, another Texan! It has been storming off and on up here, but seems to have stopped now!

The only PHP framework I have actually used is CakePHP, but it was really more than I needed for simple browser game making so I stopped using it. PHP doesn't seem as clunky or verbose and doesn't have the incompatibility problems that Javascript has, for which I use jQuery religiously. However, after using jQuery and seeing what a revelation that was (it makes JS into what it always should have been), I am interested in checking out some other PHP frameworks.

[kaos78414]

Well, I don't know if you've heard of Ruby, but it has become popular simply because of its framework, Rails. (you almost never hear about Ruby without hearing about Rails). I think that's the best way to describe what CakePHP and CodeIgniter do for PHP. Though, I didn't like CakePHP because I hate the automatic table generation and console stuff. But that's just me.

[hallsofvallhalla]

welcome, glad you are fitting right in glad to have you. Sounds like you will be a wealth of knowledge and we love that.

[kaos78414]

welcome, glad you are fitting right in glad to have you. Sounds like you will be a wealth of knowledge and we love that.

Thanks hallsofvallhalla. After watching some of your video tutorials, I actually got to work developing some of the framework for my game. I've already got an AJAX registry component, and some basic Authentication library functions I'll need soon. We'll see where I get in the next few days.

[SpiritWebb]

Welcome!

[hallsofvallhalla]

awesome, anxious to see what you come up with,