Thread: Store information

Hi, i'm building a quiz. How should i store my information about the highscore?
Maybe in a textfile on the net, but i'm not good at C++ yet, so i don't know.

I want that everybody can have their own copy of this program, so i figured, i must have the highscore on the internet otherwise everybody aint gonna have the same highscore, right?

Right.

First thing to do is to save it to a text file or something, then you could use putty (That it?), to upload it to your site or something. I'm sure it has command line arguments which you could manipulate.

You have a PHP backend that logs highscore data sent by the players in some format, xml, your own format, whatever, and then also serves queries to get the high score list. You can use a library like libcurl http://curl.haxx.se/ to ease this part of your program on the client side (it's very easy to use)

>> I want that everybody can have their own copy of this program, so i figured, i must have the highscore on the internet otherwise everybody aint gonna have the same highscore, right?

My gameboy only has my highscores for Tetris. I think it's better for my esteem that it is that way.

>> putty

Mm, I can only think of very impractical ways to use PuTTY for this app.

Hmm, i think i prefer PuTTY even though i'm great at PHP. Is PuTTY hard to code?

But how do i get recent data from the file before i overwrite the recent file?

Use curl to download the high scores too.

Or you could use a database (mysql or something), which the php script, when a score is uploaded to it, adds elements to, so you only upload your current score. Store them in the DB, and print the high score on a page on the net in ascending or descending order according to your preference. Then download the contents of the high score using curl if you want do display them in your program. It's more of a PHP problem then, the high-score table that is. The C problem would be uploading/downloading the webpage highscore, which shouldn't really be problematic once you get to grips with curl.

This seems a bit tricky. I think i'm changing how to store the ifno. I want to have a different highscore for different program. So i can skip cURL. How is this possible?

Good idea. Once you have that fixed you might consider looking into curl.

Just store the info to file, and then when you read in the score sort them in memory. It's much easier to do that than it is to reformat the file.

Say for example this was your highscore table:

twomers 1447
Livijn 54
Tonto 1306

You could read the files into a map<string, int> and sort with respect to the int part, then display it if you want.

If the question was "How do I save and read from and to files", look at the faq or the tutorials on the mother site.

Okey, i think i need more help.
I've read the tutorial on the mother site, and i now how to open files. But after that,
how do i read from them? It doesn't sais how.

Code:

Code:

void file_read()
{
       string fs;
       
       ifstream the_file ("highscore.txt");
       if ( !the_file.is_open() ) {
            cout << "Error opening file!";
       } else {
              // Read anc cout text!
       }
}

There are a number of options for reading in a file. We'll say you want to read them to a map of strings and ints, for the name and score.

This is probably going to look like a handful, but it's not too hard to understand!

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <map>

int main( void )
{
    std::ifstream in( "scores.txt" );

    if ( !in )
        return 1; // or something

    std::map< std::string, int > scoresheet;
    std::string str;
    int score;

    while ( in >> str >> score )
        scoresheet[str] = score;

    std::map<std::string,int>::iterator iter;
    for ( iter=scoresheet.begin(); iter!=scoresheet.end(); iter++ )
    {
        std::cout<< iter->first << " got " << iter->second << " points!" << std::endl;
    }

    return 0;
}

it works for me, with the test highscore that I gave earlier. Try it out and see if you understand it. If not come back.

Can someone explain the code. I don't just wanna paste and copy if you understand.