PHP Engine comparaison - Google Drive


1			McCode V1	McCode V2	McCode Redux	McCode V3	NWE	ezRPG	GL Script
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3	Release date		2005	2007	May 2011	Not released (1)	May 2012	2010	2001
4	Price		Free	100 $	120 $	-	100 $	Free / Open source	Free / Open source
5	Prefered game theme		Mafia / Gang	Mafia / Gang	Mafia / Gang	Mafia / Gang	Medieval content (11)	None (15)	None
6	3rd party plugin available		Some (2)	Loads (3)	Few	-	Very few (4)	Very few (16)	Nearly none
7	Official support		End of support	Slow	Slow	-	Very fast	Community only (17)	Community only
8	Time required for a patch		End of support	6 Months	6 Months	-	1-3 days	Community only (17)	Community only
9	Community support		Good	Very good	Ok(ish)	-	Ok	Not very good	Nearly none
10	Customization without changing main code		Nearly impossible	Nearly impossible	Some is possible	Should be modular	Nearly all	Nearly all	Nearly impossible
11	Easy to install		Basic (10)	Basic	Basic	Easy	Easy (18)	Easy	No installer
12	Security		Some security (5)	Some security (5)	Ok(ish) (6)	-	Best (7)	Good - Best (19)	Not secure
13	Module installation		Need to modify files	Need to modify files	Need to modify files	Maybe auto ?	Auto-installing	Manual (9)	Need to modify files
14	Documentation		None	None	None	-	Wiki documentation	Doc directory	Really poor
15	Module upgrade from within engine		No	No	No	-	Yes	No	No
16	Requires crontab		Yes	Yes	Yes	-	No (8)	No (20)	No (20)
17	Offered modules (out of box)		26	50	51	-	120	~5	~10
18	Edit all texts without editing code		No	No	No	Should....	Yes	No	No
19	Edit all content directly from admin panel		No	No	No	-	Yes	No	No
20	Check engine / module version from admin panel		No	No	No	-	Yes	No	No
21	Game performance & SQL profiler		No	No	No	-	Yes	No	No
22	Included bug tracking system		No	No	No	-	Yes	No	No
23	Embeded code viewer / editor		No	No	No	-	Yes	No	No
24	Disable module		Not possible	Not possible	Not possible	-	From admin panel	No	No
25	Included live stats system		No	No	No	-	Yes	No	No
26	Template system		No	No	Yes (limited)	-	Yes	Smarty	No
27	Development status		Development stopped	Security fix only	Security fix only	? No updates	Frequent updates	Project forked	Development stopped
28	Module development (21)		Plain PHP	Plain PHP	Easy	Complex	Easy	Ok	Plain PHP
29	NB database tables		49	58	60	-	91	2	?
30	Stat changes requires DB & Code structure edit		Yes	Yes	Yes	-	No	No	Yes
31	Comment in code (core)		Minimal	Minimal	Minimal	-	Good	Decent	Minimal
32	File structure		Flat	Nearly flat	Some directories		Good structure	Good structure	Some directories
33	Lines of PHP		12,723	16,065	18,617	17,780 (13)	21,725	3,291 (14)	13,165
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35	Notes:
36	(1) First announced in 2009, yet delayed a huge number of times.
37	(2) Can easly port V2 to V1 module
38	(3) Many mods are basically variations of the same feature, or just small changes over another mod.
39	(4) Can port V2 modules to NWE, also with the help of an helper tool. However some things need to be re-thought as the engine is really different.
40	(5) Lots of CSRF issues. Modules need to check all themselves as the engine do not provide a good infrastructure.
41	(6) Potential CSRF issues. Modules need to check all themselves as the engine do not provide a good infrastructure.
42	(7) (in comparaison to the other engines) CSRF, SQL Injection, XSS security handled by the engine.
43	(8) Not required, but supports it if enabled (vai admin panel)
44	(9) Usually involves in directory copy, and some template modification. You may need also need to edit manually the DB structure.
45	(10) A lot need to be done by hand like editing files directly.
46	(11) Comes with a medieval content, but content can be modified via admin panel
47	(12) NWE code contains about the same number of lines of PHP as McCodes V2
48	(13) Current status as alpha release, which doesn't contain all the features of even V2. Therefore V3 is expected to be huge.
49	(14) Without counting smarty and htmlpurifier. With both included the total lines of PHP are 54,864!
50	(15) The engine doesn't come with any game content, you could basically do whatever you want as you get the the bare bone engine.
51	(16) But you can port modules from other engines, however some features need to be re-thought as the engine is different from McCodes.
52	(17) Quiet a few people on MWG will help you here, and will do it very well.
53	(18) NWE offers multiple ways for the installation.
54	(19) Depends on the "fork" you download, you may have more or less embeded security.
55	(20) Is not required by the engine.
56	(21) How easy it is to develop a module for the given engine
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58	Redux last update: 13th Jul 2012
59	McCodes V2 last update: 15th Apr 2012
60	McCodes V1 last update: 21th Nov 2012
61	McCodes V3 last update: 15th Mar 2012
62	ezRPG last update: May 2012
63	glScript last update: 3 Jul 2011
64	NWE last update too frequent check here:	Last module update