/searchGames

web project to search games from a database

Primary LanguageJava

searchGames

simple Web project to search games from a database.

Game search website
  • using Servlets, JSP, Java and MySQL

A user can login, register, search games and see their description

Description of main files

Web Pages Servlet/Java code Model/Java code View/JSP
Login Login.java LoginForm.java login.jsp
Registration Register.java RegisterForm.java register.jsp
Search Search.java SearchParse.java search.java
Search Result SearchResult.java N/A searchResult.jsp
Specials specials.java N/A specials.jsp
Details Details.java N/A Details.jsp

Create the Database

The java file Database.java is using the .xml files to create a database called a1_soen387 and tables called gameData and user important: if the database is already created, you can't run this file again ( or you can update the code to make it work )

If you need to change the user and password to access your database, you need to change USER and PASSWORD static String in several files.

  • line 86 and 87 in LoginForm.java
  • line 225 and 226 in RegisterForm.java

XML files content

Information is from the open source website GameDB API

each folder contain information for 5 games

  • zelda
  • fish
  • mario
  • miami
  • myst
  • rabbit
  • red
  • sky
  • tokyo
  • batman
  • boy
  • car
  • creed
  • diablo

In each folder there are 5 full descriptions and 5 artifacts description

Cheers!