cjCardDeck

A couple of php-classes that implement a playing card deck. There is 1 base class and 2 different flavours (normal card game and a tarot-game).

Class card

Properties

• public $suit : The suit of the card
• public $color : The color of the card
• public $name : Name of the card
• public $symbol : The number or symbol of the card
• public $ranking : The overal ranking of this card in its suit
• public $image : The image for this card
• public $backimage : The image of the backside of the card

Methods

• getImgTag() : Gives back an image tag for this card
• getBackImgTag() : Gives back the image tag for the back of this card

Class cardDeck

Properties

none you will have to use directly

Methods

• cardDeck->shuffle: Shuffles the deck
• cardDeck->drawCard: Draw 1 card and removes it from the deck
• cardDeck->getRemainingCardCount: Get the amount of remaining cards in the deck
• cardDeck->countTotalRanking: Get the total value of all the cards that are still in the deck

Acknowledgements:

• Credit to Anthony J Clink for the card pictures he provided in his implementation. http://www.phpclasses.org/package/4976-PHP-Manipulate-decks-of-cards.html
• Orphalese.net for making a great tarot-dealing program and making it possible to create and share new tarot-decks.

Contact Jo Giraerts [email protected] for more information