Eric the Red

Alright so my tetris game is done. Now I want to add a little "bang" to the game. So I came up with a great idea. I just need your help in telling me if this is possible and can be done in Java. Here's how my idea plays out.

So you go to this website, which I created from cogeco and your able to play tetris through an applet. So far This can be done.

Now on the website I want to have a highscore list for "top ten highscores". Now depending on if your score is good enough, I want to be able to upload this score to my website and update the highscore page (what do I use to do this? php? just a guess.). or can java do this?

Note: I'm really bad at this website stuff. But I know this much. I update my website through FTP using "FileZilla", where I can add a .html file to my folder online. However, is it possible for a java applet/ application to be able to connect to this website and update it?

I'm a complete noob at this website stuff, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Just put it this way, before yesterday I didn't even know how upload to my website.

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titaniumdecoy

The easiest way to go about this would be to have the Java applet store and update the high scores in a text file. A PHP (or other server-side language) script could read from this file and extract the data to display on the website.

Eric the Red

Thanks a lot. Now i'm with cogeco internet and I get 10 mb web space. One of my friends have told me that they may not allow me to use PHP, does that make any sense to you? Because apparently that may charge you extra money.

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Booooze

Yup, the sounds about right. ISP's sometimes give you a certain amount of free web space, but rarely give you php, asp or some language support. If you do, I bet they would charge you for it, in which case, you might as well spring for a website hosting package somewhere else.

As for doing your high scores bit, the way titaniumdecoy recommended is the best for your situation. I was thinking db, but thats too much.

titaniumdecoy

A possible way to circumvent this problem would be to save only the highest score in a text file, and include it on the webpage you want to display it on using SSI. This may or may not work, but it's worth a shot.

nnxion

Or just get another host that does support PHP, there are plenty around that are free too. Check this out.

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