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I’ve been working with PHP for some time now, and I’ve become spoiled with the rand() function for generating random numbers. It’s so simple – pass a min, pass a max, and get the number you want.

While I was working on various game-related scripts this weekend, I was left wondering how to create a random number in Javascript. It’s not quite as simple as the rand() function – we’ll have to go back to the old C-style random number generation.
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In a recent post, I sketched out how to use Javascript to build a gameboard for a browser-based game – specifically Tic Tac Toe. After a little tweaking, I’ve worked this into a functioning Tic Tac Toe board.

In this post, we’ll explore the code used to set up this board. Once that’s done, the next step will be to create a php script to evaluate some of the game’s logic.
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A thorough knowledge of Javascript can give you tremendous control over what happens on a website. Combined with PHP through an AJAX request, you can make some pretty nifty browser-based games.

This tutorial will focus on the first part of making a basic board game – creating a board. The end result will be a three by three game board suitable for use in developing a tic-tac-toe game.
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A few weeks ago, I installed the “Per Post CSS and JS” plugin for Wordpress. This allows you to add a custom field to your post and include extra .css or .js files to link to that individual page.

I only realized today – while testing something else – that the plugin had been firing off warning messages because of an oversight in the code. Warning messages annoy me, so I decided to fix it up.
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