Tutorial 1: What is MD Script

[Chewett]

MD Script is the custom scripting language written for MD by Murry and Rendril. It is in essence PHP and shares most of the sytax and functions that PHP can use.

If you know PHP, then you probably should skip to this post (not yet written) which has a list of notes and differences between PHP and MDScript

If you know some programming already but not PHP, you should probably look at this post for a quick overview of PHP and MDScript (not yet written)

MDScript allows you to do a lot with the clickables around, the most used application is for quests and games. Also at higher levels you can script code onto items.

Each Tutorial post is designed to be kept small, and to encourage testing with various features of MDScript. [url="http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/forum/166-md-scripting/"]These Forums[/url] are the main sections where you can discuss and ask questions about MDScript.

MDScript is a language to manipulate and store data. The main way of displaying it is HTML. The "code" for HTML is relatively simple and you dont need to know much.

Before you start looking at MDScript it is recommended to read through [url="http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/11910-tutorial-15-html-reference/"]Tutorial 1.5: HTML Reference[/url]

If you are ready to begin learning some MDScript then continue to Tutorial 2: Not Yet Written

Edited March 19, 2012 by Chewett