Speedfreak is a new server for Need For Speed World, written in PHP. It is effectively a port of nilzao/soapbox-race, however this is unique in quite a few ways:
- A sort of modular system: there's the server, the chat server, and the UDP server that currently does not exist.
- The web-app handles the database and stuff, as well as an API. The web-app does not handle chat at all; that is up to the Java chat server.
- There is a special launcher, which allows players to add their own servers to play on. In the future, there will probably be a server list site. The launcher also has some preset servers.
Before you can begin using the server, please ensure that you have the following things installed:
- Memcached
- PHP >=7.0.0, compiled with XML, MySQL, curl
- The PHP 7 memcached extension
- The PHP 7 mcrypt extension
- Composer
- Homebrew (ONLY if you're running the server on a Mac; it makes installing PHP and stuff MUCH easier)
To install the server, you should run the following command:
composer create-project speedfreak/server
This will create a new project with the server code. If you get any errors, you probably did something wrong. Here is a guide that may help you.
After that completes, change your current directory to that of the server by running:
cd SERVER_DIRECTORY_NAME
Basic information about the server can be found in the .env file, towards the bottom. It should be fairly straightforward.
** more coming soon **
The Speedfreak server is open-sourced software licensed under the GPL v3.0 license.