Hi there, well I scanned the forums and it seemed there is not much in the way of attempts on making a MMO, there was a dll I did come across but its implementation seemed a little buggy to say the least upon following the instructions. Thus I asked why not use encrypted, no extension appended, text files server side which would transfer data to the player client side according to details they give logging in and once they disconnect to update new values server side. That way there is no 'stress' on the server of continued data flowing only on logging functions and the text files are as easy to back up as simply right clicking and copy/pasting. Not to mention using PHP Include you could display the resulting data as a online player list ^_^ and if they went to 'view source' it would only show the resulting data not the file itself.

I have already got a functioning login system based of this theory and will post the 'basic' version of the system once I am done most likely in a few hours, please feel free to critisize and point out security gaps/flaws you see with this in comparison to the mysql dll.