CEVO Developer\’s Zone

Intoduction

One aspect that is very vague and not known very well throughout the gaming community is… how to make a clan website. Most players are very unfamiliar with websites and how they work. Many teams don’t have anyone on their roster to "make them a website", let along make it functional and good looking. So we the CEVO developers thought it might be useful to show how to install some common Content Management Systems (CMS) for video game teams or clans.

We rate different solutions off ease of installment, configuration, admin and user use, and clan specific functions. While some people would say use PHP-Nuke, e107, or others which have thousands of reviews, we’re looking at some more gaming specific solutions that have things built in for rosters, matches played, server information, etc. Like always, if you have a tip or solution please let us know at devzone (AT) cevo (DOT) com.

webSPELL

This week we’ll be reviewing webSPELL, a CMS designed for clans/teams and gaming communities. It appears to be from germany, but everything anyone needs to know can be found in english.

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There are hundreds, if not thousands, of written tutorials for PHP on the internet. However, we thought we would try something out. We wanted to try something different with two twists: First, make a video instead of a written document. Gamers are much more visual, and we thought this would help. Second, apply it a little more to gamers. Try to gear the terminology, examples, etc. to gamers. Hopefully you will enjoy these videos. You can view them with a flash video viewer.

Topics Covered

1. Brief Introduction
2. Basic Syntax
3. Fixing Errors
4. Variables
5. Strings (a type of variables)
6. Operators (how to add, multiply, and compare variables)
7. Challenges (Things to try out on your own)

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How to get started

So you want to be a web developer? Professional or as a hobby, PHP can be a fun experience. However, if you don’t know where to start off, it can be a total pain in the butt and a huge headache. We hope to help give people a good shove off into PHP programming world. However, we want to avoid technical jargon (words) and keep it easy for gamers to understand.

In this tutorial we will accomplish the following:

1. Get a basic understanding of what PHP does.
2. Install software (XAMPP) to run a personal web server on your own machine.
3. Learn how to make simple script files and where to save them.
4. How to view your website.

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