This is a PARTIALLY COMPLETE game for practicing the use of the most common PHP functions. (More languages coming soon ... ish.)
It is based loosely on Tetris. To play the game, visit http://patrickmaynard.github.io/code-plunge
The game pulls functions to practice from https://www.exakat.io/en/top-100-php-functions/, starting with the most commonly used functions.
The game uses https://github.com/uniter for transpiling PHP into JavaScript.
Apologies for the terrible JavaScript and HTML. I am not a frontend developer these days, so I'm hoping to eventually get some help refactoring.
- Add 2 more PHP functions, bringing total function count to 8
- Make scrollable the area of checkboxes for functions in pause modal
- Use jQuery UI or some other resource for the pause modal, which is pretty bad now
- Lock the gameplay area to a specific pixel size so scores are competitive
- Clean up CSS a bit
- Add 2 more functions from https://www.exakat.io/en/top-100-php-functions/ for the top 10
- Add a collapsible area that shows the previous answer
- Move question retrieval to dexie, as part of a preparation for an eventual move to MySQL
- Add more functions -- try to get up to the top 20!
- Get help from someone on refactoring the frontend code
- Get help on seeing if there's a better transpiler to use, since the current one seems to use an old version of PHP. One possible option: https://github.com/seanmorris/php-wasm
- Fix the bug in which people can just type a literal or boolean to "answer" the question
- As preparation for the move from github.io to your personal server (where you'll need to pay for infrastructure), modify the pause screen to show a simple ad
- Create a "(re)start game" button at the bottom
- Move this to your personal server --so you can hook it up to a database for logins, recording of high scores, times, etc.,.-- actually, as having a reliable score that couldn't be fiddled with in the frontend would involve running
eval()on user-supplied code the server side (which is obviously very unsafe), we'll do away with storing high scores. But we can still maybe serve this from somewhere to de-bloat the github repo. (See below) - Now that the code is no longer being served directly from GitHub, exclude the NPM package folder from version control
- Fix bug that causes blocks to occasionally fall through other blocks
- Add logic that allows the player to see how much time they won the game in
- Fix bug that causes falling blocks to push the pause modal into the background
- Add a method for generating a screenshot and posting it to social media along with a score (again, acknowledging somewhere that the scores might be hacked on the frontend)
- Add 5 more functions to get up to the top 25 PHP functions
- Add Python equivalents of the PHP functions you currently have
- Gradually add more PHP functions in groups of 5 until you have all of the top 100
- Consider integrating some of this material as well: https://www.exakat.io/en/top-100-php-classes-that-you-should-know/
- Get help from some devs in other languages on adding support for those languages
- Add any remaining multibyte string functions - https://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mbstring.php
- Add any remaining string functions that don't have multibyte equivalents - https://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php
- Add any remaining array functions - https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.array.php