Step by step guide to set up an online flash game site

This post attempts to show you step by step how to easily set up an online flash game site just like the one below.
Visit the site -> Sleek & Free Online Flash Games

With a site like this you can make money from the site through pay per click programs and affiliates related to the gaming industry.

I will cut the crap and begin to reveal how to create an online flash game site just like the one at SleekPage.com.

Steps to create an online flash game site

1. Just go to eBay and purchase the scripts for this flash game site. Hahaha… and you must have thought I’m a hardcore game programmer.
2. On the eBay site, you can either choose to bid or buy the codes for $5. Read through the site to find out more about what you’re about to bid or buy.
3. Assuming you’ve purchased the scripts, you’re now ready to set up the flash games script on your site.
4. You will be sent a url to download the scripts.

Download the scripts

1. Download the first link which is the PHP Game Website Script (72.1MB)
2. You can choose to download the second link later. It’s just a big database of 1300 Games for you to add in. Wow!
3. Proceed by unzipping the the first link. You should see the following files.

Set up the environment on your local machine

1. The requirements to run the game site is PHP, mySQL and Apache. This is the so called LAMP environment.
2. If your machine is not set up with this environment, simply download and install XAMPP. XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl.
3. Once your environment is ready you’re ready to set up the game database.

Set up the game database

1. Open the file allgamesbackup.sql and copy the content of the file.
2. Launch PHPMyAdmin from XAMPP console.
3. Create a database called GamesDB.
4. Click on the SQL tab.
5. Paste the content of allgamesbackup.sql to the textarea.
6. Now for the moment of truth… click GO! Your games database will be populated with games. Yeehaa! Games database done sir!
7. To check if the sql script went well, click on the database GamesDB, you should see four tables.

• Categories
• Games
• GamesToday
• Playstats

Set up the php scripts

1. Go to your htdocs folder. This is where you should place all php scripts.
2. Copy all files and folders (screenshot above) into the htdocs folder.
3. You now need to configure some settings. Launch the file db.cnf.php
4. This is where you put in your database’s username, password, host and its name.
5. Once that’s done, you should be ready to view your very own Games Site.
6. Launch your browser. The url of your site should be http://localhost/gamescript150games/index.php
7. Assuming everything went well you should see your games site.
8. Wait a sec… why does the top looks like this?

instead of this?

This is where your creativity comes in!

Overall game site design

1. To modify the top banner, open the file index.php and search for the script [div class="head"]. This is where you should put your top banner codes. You can also place any form of advertisement here. In the case of Sleekpage, I placed adsense code but blue links.
2. To change the overall colors of the site, open the file styles.css
3. If you need to change a specific color but do not know where to change it in the styles.css, you can try this trick!
4. Download ColorPic. It’s a free download. After installing it, what you do is select the color that you want to change. Colorpic will reveal to you the color code, for example #FF0000.
5. Go to styles.css and search for #FF0000 and replace it with the color code that you like. Save the css then refresh the page. You should see the colors changed.
6. To modify the right sidebar, open the file index.php search for the script [div class="right"]
7. To modify the footer, open the file footer.inc.php
8. To modify the main content of game site, open the file templates.tpl.php

Upload to web host