Multiplayer game is it possible?

[denby]

hi

is it possible to make a multiplayer game on a website using PHP SQL etc

just to keep things simple for example a game of rock paper scissors between 3 people

and if it is possible would you expect much lag from the databse thats running the game?

thanks

 

[denby]

i was looking at websites like madbid when you make a bid everyone else see it

how is this done without flash?

i wouldn't need anything more complex than this for my game to work

 

[denby]

I've never used madbid, but I'd guess the page is polling an AJAX request result every x seconds to get the latest bidder.

looking at it closer when you click to bid it starts a javascript

javascript:auction_bid('1662865')

hmm