Abstract: CYOA Outline

CYOA stands for Choose Your Own Adventure. It is a creative endeavour that allows the reader (or user, in this case) to work their way through a series of prompts given that are dependent upon user input. Each prompt (or page) is supplied with 2 choices. The user is able to build their own adventure out of the groundwork (i.e. the prompts and choices given) that I have lain in the following project. This is for sheer enjoyment of the user and allows the creator (i.e. me) to express themselves in a media that may have not been explored before.

This project is intended for entertainment purposes. It allows me to express myself and my knowledge of writing creatively in English in varying genres, and it allows me to explore more of what can be accomplished using a combination of HTML, PHP coding and mySQL databases, which will help me out in the future, when I'm out of school and looking for a job in Computer Science.

Besides keeping my creative writing sharp, I intend to:

• Build a secure user system based on a mySQL database
• If the user forgets their username and/or password needed to login to the system to access various CYOAs, they will be able to utilize a form in order to recall that information from the user database
• Allow the user to change their password at will
• Allow the user to delete their CYOA account
• Allow the user to look at their user statistics -- that is, the user will be able to see how many CYOAs they have started, how many times they have 'died', and how many they have completed, which is kept track of in their user record in the mySQL database
• Allow the user to reset their statistics back to 0 in all categories

Ready?