[3.2][3.3][DEV] Hangman - Resurrected

[Mike-on-Tour]

Extension Name: Hangman Game



Author: Mike-on-Tour
Extension Description:Since users in one of the boards I manage kept asking (the Hangman mod was installed back when we used phpBB 3.0.x) I've worked a little bit on dmzx's abandonded extension - after I got his approval, thanks again.

What is new or has changed?

• I changed the layout
• There are no longer hard coded quotes, instead every user can enter terms or quotes which are stored in a database table
• Every term or quote is used only once so your users will not see a riddle already solved (which means that they should enter a new one after playing)
• Users will not get their own terms or quotes to solve
• A term may consist of letters (characters) and spaces, the latter to enable sentences to be quoted; the term must not contain punctuation marks, special characters and digits
• Since some languages have additional letters it is possible to define the available letters for the game within the language file
• The number of points a player will gain by solving or losing a game, for guessing a correct letter, for entering a new term into the database and the number of lives to be used in a game can be defined in the ACP
• Every player is logged in a highscore list
• Letters can be chosen by either keyboard or mouse pointer

Requirements: phpBB 3.2.11: PHP 7.2 + / phpBB 3.3.x: PHP < 8.3
Download: https://www.mike-on-tour.com/mot/mot_hangman.php
Languages: de (formal und informal), en
Styles: prosilver
Github repository: https://github.com/Mike-on-Tour/hangman
Screen shots:
Game tab:

Hangman_Game.png

Input tab:

Hangman_TermInput.png

Highscore tab:

Hangman_Highscore.png

Hall of Fame:

Hangman_HallOfFame.png

Summary:

Hangman_Summary.png

ACP Settings tab:

Hangman_Settings.png

[Midway]

Hi Mike-on-Tour,

Glad to see that you have taken over this extension, but how do you get rid of the Highscore ?

[Mike-on-Tour]

Why would you want to delete it?
Right now only by purging the table with phpMyAdmin.

[Midway]

now I have only two member, imagine if I have 50 member with score ?

[warmweer]

Glad to see that you have taken over this extension, but how do you get rid of the Highscore ?

That depends on what "getting rid of the high score" implies.

1. do you want to stop recording high scores and remove that field completely, or
2. do you want to reset all players' scores to 0, or
3. something else?

The first requires edits to the extension (and would defeat one of the purposes of the game).
The second is just a matter of purging the table (as Mike-on-Tour mentioned) and is independent of the number of records in the table.
The third calls for more info.

[Mike-on-Tour]

I have nothing to add to what warmweer already said, but:

now I have only two member, imagine if I have 50 member with score ?

Why is that a concern to you? Because of the length of the table? Don't worry, with more than 25 users in the highscore list the pagination will set in.

[Midway]

with the hangman extension of dmzx version 1.0.0
I didn't need to go through phpMyAdmin
to empty the table, it was necessary to go into the acp to do it
do you understand me better?

Edit: as you requested the link to the mod on phpBB.de, here it is
http://area53.die-muellers.org/dm_eds/showcat.php?id=5

[Mike-on-Tour]

Thank you for the download link, I will take a look into this mod.
It shouldn't be too hard to insert a button to clear the highscore table, I will take this into account when preparing the next version.

[Midway]

Okay thanks a lot

[Miri4ever]

Looking nice so far even much better design style than the old version I got before. I like those tabs.

The only bad thing are the hardcoded colors inside the CSS File so that it only works with prosilver white themes and I need to adjust first for my dark style before I can test it closer.

[Mike-on-Tour]

I'm trying to change the css with the next version.

[Miri4ever]

Thanks and I may can do some more fixes for users using PBWow Style if I got time. First I need the new design and the old one before with this hardcoded answers was really. . . . This all here looks so far much better and save me a lot of work with the styling.

[Midway]

Hello Mike-on-Tour,

I have installed the latest version since github and it's great I can empty the hangman table
thanks you for your work

[Miri4ever]

I was trying to work a little bit with this version.

I entered some words to play and also got the 8 points and it told me it's successful saved inside the database. But if I hit the play button it always tell me I need to enter some words first. But I did at least 4 times and all got the same result.

[Mike-on-Tour]

@Midway
Good that you like it, but the honor isn't mine, that is a pull request from rmcgirr83 - you should say thanks to him

@Miri4ever
That is normal behaviour, please read the text in the Input tab, it says that you will not be offered your own terms. If you don't have one already, create a test user and input some terms via this account and you will be able to start a game