Zugg Software :: View topic - how to build a stuff database and inter-access with zmud?

Beginner Joined: 27 Mar 2004 Posts: 27

hello all, I am intereted more in using zmud programming than play the games:) Here I have an issue without any idea to work out. Could anyone show me a clue please?

The problem is that, I always see some good guys to help newbie in my Mud to find out where NPC and Stuff is. Instead of doing it by themselve, they have a system or program to help them deal with. Once anyone types "ask NPC/Stuff" in SOS channel, it automatically reply with answers.

To make the desription clear, if I don't know where sword is, the only thing I do is to type "SOS ask sword" to SOS channel, it will feedback with "Sword is in the centrel park" on SOS channel automatically and immediately. I guess they use "ask" to triggle the check system and "sword" is used as key figure to search.

How these guys achive this magic functions? Thanks in advance.

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 6:14 am

There are a couple of ways. The simplest is with a bunch of #if statements:

#if (%1="sword") {SOS Sword can be found...}
#if (%1="haddock") {SOS Haddock can be found...}

and so on. You could use a database variable to make this much more simple, though:

#if (%iskey(%1,@Help)) {#exec %db(@Help,%1)} {SOS Sorry, I don't know where you can find %1}

And then you add items to the list by doing #addkey Help {item to add} {whatever you want it to do}.