User scripting in Galaxia Reborn

June 9, 2005 by Oliver
Filed under: Galaxia, Games, MPOGs, PHP 

Well I've been playing around with it a little and the easiest complex data to parse seems to be XML. So the scripting engine will be XML based. The following is how a script will (hopefully) look:

<onFleetEnterSector>
  <IsEnemy target="$fleet">
    <ExectureOrder order="attack" target="$fleet" />
  </IsEnemy>
</onFleetEnterSector>

Just in case you can't tell what it does, when a fleet enters the same sector as your own it checks to see if is an enemy and if is, attacks it.

Firstly a bunch of variables the script can read are passed to it. After that all the processing works using callbacks. When each tag is encountered, it just calls some specified function with the attributes passed as arguments (probably as an associative array to easily handle a variable number). If it's a conditional (like "IsEnemy") the function must return true or false. If it's an action (like "ExecuteOrder") then it returns nothing. There is also another type - one that returns an arbitrary value (i.e. a function - but I've used the word function too much already).

I'll put the code up once it's tested a bit more.]]>

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  1. kevin on Tue, 14th Jun 2005 9:34 am

    2. great blog. i like it.