chess.php is a PHP chess library that is used for chess move generation/validation, piece placement/movement, and check/checkmate/stalemate detection - basically everything but the AI.
NOTE: this is a port of chess.js for php
use composer with composer require ryanhs/chess.php
or put in your composer.json
"require": {
"ryanhs/chess.php": "^1.0"
}
if you doesn't know composer, its a really usefull tools in php for package management,
try to learn composer here
about coding style, naming system.. because this is a PHP, i try to stick to use PHP-PSR, like game_over() become gameOver()
just keep in mind, any function name transformed into camelCase
The code below plays a complete game of chess ... randomly.
<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use \Ryanhs\Chess\Chess;
$chess = new Chess();
while (!$chess->gameOver()) {
$moves = $chess->moves();
$move = $moves[mt_rand(0, count($moves) - 1)];
$chess->move($move);
}
echo $chess->ascii() . PHP_EOL;you can check original chess.js here
you can check it here: https://ryanhs.github.io/chess.php
actually i made this, when i need to use some validation in my chess game (college project) haha..
main purpose is for validation, we not try to make an engine in PHP :-)