[G_yoshi]

Originally posted by Falcor
For NPCs Server:

There are few ways to store data on the server, and all of them can be erased quite easily. The ones that can't are inaccessable. My proposal would be a way of storing information on the server in text files that you can call up server side to be read. The following commands would be needed.



addline textfile,text; adds a line of text into the textfile on the server
insertline textfile,linenumber,text; Inserts a line of text at the line number in the text file (every line is ended by a return character)
replaceline textfile,linenumber,text; Replaces the text at "linenumber" with "text"
removeline linetext,textfile; remove the first line of text that is equal to "linetext"
deleteline textfile,linenumber; Deletes the line of text at "linenumber"

#l(linenumber,textfile) Gets the line of text in the textfile at "linenumber"


All these commands would be serverside ofcourse. Maybe stored in another directory named "Serverdata" or something along that lines... It would be good for storing perminant data that can be accessed by NPCs on the server, the posibilities are almost limitless. Additional (yet optional) commands that could be added are...


gettext textfile; downloads the textfile off the server for offline use (if under 64k)
#l(linenumber,textfile) Same as above, only the clientside version will search on the players computer for the textfile


Note: when I say line number, every line of text in the text file is seperated by a return character, much like every token is seperated by either a comma or a space.

the only problem I can see is the clientside message code...suppose the player edits the text file?