PHP in Verge3d Development

Thanks for the tips Yuri. What I ended up doing (so I can test locally) is I changed the configuration file in Xaamp to point to my document root being my Verge applications directory, instead of the default c:/xampp/htdocs folder

Directions I found here: http://www.javadtaghia.com/clam/xampp-linux-windows/howtochangexampplocalhosttoanotherfolderoutsidexamppfolder

I then add some PHP code instead my projectname.html file and rename it with a .php extension. For testing I have xampp running and chrome (via xampp) open pointed at the file I am working on, and have firefox (my default browser for verge3d app) open where I can experiment in puzzles. Then I just tab over to chrome and refresh to quickly view the results.

Seems to be working great so far. The reason I had to get into PHP (and Mysql) in the first place is to be able to make content available only to registered users (via a login and registrations pages)

I wish there was a puzzle and ‘easy’ button for that shit!

My experiments so far show that trying to ‘envoke’ php code (even on via a local server) within puzzles isn’t going to work. I am I correct there?

For now, the code (PHP + mySQL) I am using (more like tweaking as I am not smart enough to write it) to manage logins creates a few Session variables like username and user id. I’d like to be able to access those in puzzles so for example, when a user clicks a 3d cube object,I have some HTML based puzzles that conjure up a modal window that gives a personalized message like “Great job <username>!”

To do that, I need to access the Session variables in puzzles.

Is there an easy way to do this?

So far what I have figured out, is that after the user logins I assign the Session variable value to a hidden html element, like this

<?php echo “<input type=’hidden’ id=’username’ value='”.$_SESSION[‘username’].”‘/>”;?>

Then in puzzles, I use the html get attribute puzzle to get the value of the element with id “username” and assign it to a new variable inside puzzles.

Which works, but is there a better way of doing this? Like any way to capture Session variables via puzzles or custom javascript?
Thanks