Web Service

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#1

I was reading the tutorial from J Beebe on ‘Facebook Friends Leaderboard’. I want to have my users post to a leaderboard on Facebook for my Ipad/Iphone app., and it seems like this tutorial should be helpful.

But it gives way to couple of questions for me:

  1. Do I need a web service to accomplish this? Isn’t there a way to link user directly into facebook where the ‘score’ can be posted? Why a need of a web service, just to hold the php scripts? Can’t I imbed those directly into the lua/corona code files when I build the app?

  2. His tutorial linked to Kodingen.com web service which is now Koding.com, (supposedly free). But looks like it has evolved into more then just a place to store a small database for my app… so my question is, what web service is recommended? especially low cost ones!
    I would like to use Corona Cloud, as I would like to use all thing Corona, but it is in Beta, and I can’t use that till it is a stable release, so until then I would need some other service?

Thanks

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#2

Its going to take me a while to decode what he is doing here. His PHP scripts are not talked about in the tutorial and hopefully someone in the community has done this and can explain it a bit more, but to answer your immediate questions.

Yes, his code is going to require a web hosting solution (can be under $4 a month if you pre-pay for a year or so). You will need a database and a place to run some time of web scripts (PHP in his case) if you’re going to follow his model.

Facebook has some “score” feature, but I think it just tracks your high score and posts on your timeline. I’ve not really dug into it. You’re best bet is to google for facebook api score and see what comes up.
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#3

Thanks Rob. Appreciate you thoughts on this. [import]uid: 77237 topic_id: 35280 reply_id: 140293[/import]

#4

Its going to take me a while to decode what he is doing here. His PHP scripts are not talked about in the tutorial and hopefully someone in the community has done this and can explain it a bit more, but to answer your immediate questions.

Yes, his code is going to require a web hosting solution (can be under $4 a month if you pre-pay for a year or so). You will need a database and a place to run some time of web scripts (PHP in his case) if you’re going to follow his model.

Facebook has some “score” feature, but I think it just tracks your high score and posts on your timeline. I’ve not really dug into it. You’re best bet is to google for facebook api score and see what comes up.
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#5

Thanks Rob. Appreciate you thoughts on this. [import]uid: 77237 topic_id: 35280 reply_id: 140293[/import]

#6

It really depends on what functionality you’re looking for. If it’s just leaderboards and achievements you can do this now with scoreoid and the upcoming corona cloud. If you’re looking to add more functionality there is parse.com (their free option includes 1 million pushes and API calls per month. ) All of these options are better than building your own since you don’t have to worry about scaling up or out.

To be honest, I would have preferred if CL had partnered with a mature back end service instead of re-inventing the wheel with gameminion, particularly as that product is still very much beta. [import]uid: 9035 topic_id: 35280 reply_id: 141039[/import]

#7

It really depends on what functionality you’re looking for. If it’s just leaderboards and achievements you can do this now with scoreoid and the upcoming corona cloud. If you’re looking to add more functionality there is parse.com (their free option includes 1 million pushes and API calls per month. ) All of these options are better than building your own since you don’t have to worry about scaling up or out.

To be honest, I would have preferred if CL had partnered with a mature back end service instead of re-inventing the wheel with gameminion, particularly as that product is still very much beta. [import]uid: 9035 topic_id: 35280 reply_id: 141039[/import]