I’ve just had my first experience programming in PHP. What was it, you ask? Well, about six months or so ago, I created a World of Warcraft Private Server on my computer, using a piece of software called MaNGOS. The “Massive Network Game Object Server.” MaNGOS uses MySQL to store all of it’s data.

One problem. The only way to create/delete accounts, or to change the passwords, is to either directly manipulate the SQL using something like SQLYog, or to use the server window to issue Admin-level commands to the server. That was unacceptable. There are also no good PHP frontends for MaNGOS, to do this for you. So, in my infinite wisdom, I decided that I would create my own. I created a HTML/PHP/MySQL script that, when used correctly, is able to create/delete/ and change the passwords of accounts.

Eventually, I will set it up to sanitize the database inputs, so that malicious code can’t be run using it, and then I will post it up here, so that anyone else who cares to create a MaNGOS server won’t have to deal with all the crap that I have.