Setting up a leaderboard using PHP/MySQL

Games are more fun when there is a leaderboard of high scores that the players have achieved. Even single player games can communicate to a shared web-based leaderboard. This recipe includes both, the client side (Unity) code, as well as the web-server side (PHP) scripts to set and get the player scores from a MySQL database.

Setting up a leaderboard using PHP/MySQL

Getting ready

This recipe assumes that you either have your own web hosting, or are running a local web server and a database server, such as XAMPP or MAMP. Your web server needs to support PHP, and you also need to be able to create the MySQL databases.

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