{"author_link":"\/users\/neowhoru","author_name":"neowhoru","author_uid":"neowhoru","comments":[],"epoch":1571250805,"event":"LD45","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":175917,"likes":15,"metadata":{"p_key":"137311","p_author":"neowhoru","p_authorkey":"1022345","p_urlkey":"353587","p_title":"How to find a game by a platform ? 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Why ? \nBecause i can :) Just kidding. I had this idea since my first ludum dare and i was not satisfied with the search. You cannot filter by platform or do a fulltext search or something to find interesting games. \nAlso i hate infite scroll (if you click on an entry you must scroll again).\n\nSo i build this little tool WITH pagination :)\n\n#### 2. How ?\nOk so this is a technical question.\nThis is written in PHP with the Symfony Framework. Doctrine is the default ORM layer and the games are stored in the MySQL Database (with a OneToMany Relation to the GameLinks and a relation from Link to LinkTags).\n\nThe Knp Bundle provides Pagination. The Layout is simple Bootstrap 4 styles.\n\nA Symfony Command is the Crawler that runs on the CLI and crawls the public ldjam API.\n\n#### 3. Will it have more features?\nI don't know. 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Why ? \nBecause i can :) Just kidding. I had this idea since my first ludum dare and i was not satisfied with the search. You cannot filter by platform or do a fulltext search or something to find interesting games. \nAlso i hate infite scroll (if you click on an entry you must scroll again).\n\nSo i build this little tool WITH pagination :)\n\n#### 2. How ?\nOk so this is a technical question.\nThis is written in PHP with the Symfony Framework. Doctrine is the default ORM layer and the games are stored in the MySQL Database (with a OneToMany Relation to the GameLinks and a relation from Link to LinkTags).\n\nThe Knp Bundle provides Pagination. The Layout is simple Bootstrap 4 styles.\n\nA Symfony Command is the Crawler that runs on the CLI and crawls the public ldjam API.\n\n#### 3. Will it have more features?\nI don't know. It plan fulltext search and crawl older events (but not now).\n\n\n","title":"How to find a game by a platform ? HERE is the answer :)","wayback_source":[]}