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Build Gamified Websites with PHP and jQuery

By : Detrick DeBurr
Book Image

Build Gamified Websites with PHP and jQuery

By: Detrick DeBurr

Overview of this book

Gamification involves the process of leveraging the features of real games into real life. A gamified website has the potential to increase user engagement, ROI, and learning. This book will help you build gamified websites with PHP and jQuery by making you understand the gamification design process to implement game mechanics in practical applications. Gamified websites are very popular amongst Internet users. The gamification of a web content draws users into action to empower them and help them develop new skills. Games engage user attention into the task and each task accomplished will mean the development and enhancement of new skills. This book will help you to apply the essence of games into real word applications such as business and education. Build Gamified Websites with PHP and jQuery aims at empowering and educating the users with an educational gamified website. The book walks through the process of developing a gamified website. Through the course of the book, you will learn gamification development process. The book emphasizes on the application of game mechanics to motivate the user. You will then use the Fogg behaviour model to influence the user behaviour. By the end of the book, you will see yourself building more engaging yet simple websites based on rational principles.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Third party plugins


In our e-learning application we wrote a lot of code. We wrote code either in our database in MySQL, in PHP, on the client side, or in JavaScript specifically, or in particular, we worked with jQuery wherever possible, which is just a library of JavaScript functions that helps us to do things but there are some things that we could have done to spruce up, or to make the application a lot cleaner and a lot nicer. We could have found a lot of that functionality for free in the jQuery plugins.

An important factor that we might want to take a look at is a plugin that helps us build dialog boxes, for example (Alertify.js), which is freely available on the Web. We might also possibly consider working with icheck.js, which is a jQuery plugin that enhances form controls. It is completely customizable and even works in a mobile environment. We are able to make our buttons and our checkboxes a lot nicer-looking.

We could have possibly also used one jqueryfileupload object, which...