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[Normero]

Hello,

For my cardgame I'd like players to be able to login with a username and password.
I figured QuickConnect would be a convenient way.

But I don't get how I save data for these users.

I would like to save simple extras like experience, matches played, times won etc.

Can someone turn me into the right direction to do this?

Thanks.

[Henrik]

You need to use BigDB, and if it's simple extras the easiest way to do it is to use the PlayerObject. There are two simple examples on that page that should get you started.

[Normero]

Thanks for the reply.

Is there a way to combine Simpleusers and bigDB?

I don't really get how the playerObject works, it isn't password protected, is it?

I'd like to have a user database with password protection, if the playerObject is, I just don;t get it and have to dig in deeper i guess

[Henrik]

They are already "combined", i.e. you get a separate PlayerObject for each SimpleUser.

If you read a bit about BigDB you'll see that it consists of tables, objects with keys, and access rights. The most common usage is that you want to store some data for each user, users shouldn't be able to read or modify each others data, you need a table to store the objects in, you need a unique key for each user, and you typically want to load the object when a user logs in. The PlayerObject feature gives you just that as a convenience.

What you want to do is to use SimpleUsers for registering and logging in. That gives your players a username and password. When a player has logged in to your game, you get a Client object back that is tied to that player. On that Client object you can then call loadMyPlayerObject to get the PlayerObject that is tied to that user. On that database object you can then do the regular BigDB operations such as set, get and save to manipulate the data for that user.

Does that help?

[Normero]

Yes yes, that helps a lot. Thank you!

I needed the part where you call the loadMyPlayerObject with the client object, I missed that.

Thanks alot!

[Normero]

How do I retrieve someone's facebook name after loging in with facebookOAuthConnectPopup?

And someone's username after loging in with simpleConnect?

[Oliver]

You have to query the facebook platform for information about the current user, for instance you can use our AS3 graph API. Be warned though; the facebook platform is huge and complex and it takes time getting into it.

http://http://developers.facebook.com/
https://github.com/playerio/Facebook-Graph-As3

Best,
Oliver

[Normero]

Thanks for that. I might dig into the facebook API.

But how about retrieving someone's simpleUsername? Can I retrieve it somehow or do I have to make a name attribute in the BigDB for the players PlayerObject?

Thanks

[Oliver]

you can remove the prefix "simple" from the connectUserId

[Normero]

Sounds logic :p

[Benjaminsen]

When you have initialized the FB api Oliver linked you can get information about yourself by this FQL query.

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FB.Data.query('SELECT uid, first_name,last_name, pic_small FROM user WHERE uid=me()' ).wait(function(rows:*) {
   for( var x:String in rows){
      trace(x, rows[x])
   }
})

[Normero]

Awesome, I'm going to try that then, thanks.

Got to give kudo's for being helped by 3 people in 1 topic

[Normero]

When you have initialized the FB api Oliver linked you can get information about yourself by this FQL query.

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FB.Data.query('SELECT uid, first_name,last_name, pic_small FROM user WHERE uid=me()' ).wait(function(rows:*) {
   for( var x:String in rows){
      trace(x, rows[x])
   }
})

When I execute this query I get this:

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FB: REST call result, method=fql.multiquery => {request_args=[{value="fql.multiquery", key="method"}, {value="c", key="callback"}, {value="{"v_0":"select uid,first_name,last_name,pic_small from user where uid=me()"}", key="queries"}, {value="json-strings", key="format"}, {value="114583408608649|2.jKgIESYrKR6THtmP1Mj0Qw__.3600.1292515200-670020629|ZdrtZflUB1JBOcUYnk2asZp1dPQ", key="access_token"}, {value="null", key="api_key"}], error_code="101", error_msg="Invalid API key"}

I tried some stuff But I really can't figure it out

What API key?

[Benjaminsen]

Hey, the API key is your facebook API key (It needs to be defined by the code)

I suggest you watch this video toturial that shows how to configure the API and facebook
http://playerio.com/showcase/seedlings-sitebox-example/

/Chris

[Normero]

Ok, I'll do that, thanks.