starting real 2

ok so. looked at real 2 today… and did the obvious.. now. i need to learn to do the programing stuff. i looked into PHP and it looks pretty complicated and i want to keep downloading new software to a minimum if possible. what are my options? i've heard PHP and rumors of javascript? info would be appreciated. thanks

anyone?

im doing it with java

I did it in VB, bit slower than others, but it worked

GAR! soz double post

I wrote it in C++, but if you're really lwant to avoid downloading stuff you could write it in Batch :happy:

Or in VB, using the functions built into office

Press Alt F11 to access it i think, if not it is in the toobars somewhere.

i already have c++ and i always learn some try something else, forget what i learned and almost start from scratch again. c++ is mad complex. im considering getting a few books to help me. but until then VB sounds interesting and less complex. I'll look into that. and batch would be amazing basicly because i like the fact that i can make batchs anywhere w.o downloading. great accessability. but everytime i look at a tut it always starts with echo and ends with how to make a gay pride screen

i did it with cURL. piss easy, and sets you in good stead for some of the other reals

tried cURL couldent find the part of it i was looking for

I just completed it…believe me, cURL is the easiest way

yeah IMO cURL is the best…. though i only did it with curl ages after i did it for real….

lol the first time i did it was with a massive angry javascript loop that mae truly billions (well not really) of popups… and then i went filtering though them for the right one..

i guess in some ways that's easier…. i mean you do less complex coding… but do more work at the end… and how much do you really learn from that?

But i'm comfused. How can a scripting language like javascript or VB help with this one? What do we need to program the language to do exactly?

javascript all the way :D lol

mechanical:

on what level is PHP NOT a scripting language?

and we know the format of the filename… and we know what directory it's in… (we DO know that.. right?)

so we just need to fill in the blanks.. starting with 00000000 then 00000001

and yes i know there were probably not the same number of zeros, just illustrating a point

yep I did it with javascript. I didn't think of it then but you may be able to have it check the title of the page (document.title) and if it's equal to "" (or null or something) then go on to the next loop, otherwise stop there and tell you it found it. although I don't remember if the .sql file had a title or not, so it might just go on past it. I dunno, just an idea.

why not try it in c# its relatively simple and very powerful thats how im doing it. you might have seen my post with the php script a couple of days ago. it turns out that i cant configure my apache properly cause theres compatibility issues with the newest releases of apache and php. c# is alot simpler to set up and configure and very powerful for web or desktop development with literally thousands of built in classes to do most of the work for you and the syntax is almost identical to c++.

if you decide to solve this in c# and u need any help dont hesitate to pm me

P.s. im sure after this post someones going to think i have a job doing merketing for microsoft.

I did it in VB.Net… with the WebBrowser object and mshtml to grab the source of the page you load, and a loop, it's cake. C# would be the same. Really, though, just pick a language you know and learn how to do it… everyone has their preferences.

with intellitamper i cant see any sql files. where are they?