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Introduction

This tutorial, unlike some other tutorials, goes on a test-then-explain basis. Because understand everything about PocketMine plugins require a deep knowledge in coding, this tutorial attempts to explain everything and make everything sensible, but sometimes I'll simply say Put it into your code, I won't explain. At these points, it would be because you don't have enough foundation knowledge. I'll explain once you have enough knowledge to understand.

Requirements

This tutorial is written for "general public", which means that it is expected to be read by everyone. However, there are some very basic things that you need to understand:

• How to run a basic PocketMine server that is joinable
• How to install plugins in PocketMine
• Basic knowledge in computers, such as the definition of files

Introduction to Coding

So let me explain what coding is. What comes up into your mind when I talk about "coding"? A programmer with a computer showing a black screen like that of a PocketMine console? A lot of meaningless characters and symbols?

Let's get the correct idea for "coding", at least in terms of PocketMine plugins. Here, we are going to write PHP code, which is a language fairly easy to leaen. Coding is a very logical and human-readable process. For evidence, let's take a look at this example line of code:

$player->sendMessage("Hello world!");

The above line means to sendMessage (send a message) to a player $player (we will look into variables later), with a message Hello world!.

So you can see, as long as you don't have phobia to monospace (the font type usually used for coding, which is also the font type used on PocketMine consoles), coding can actually be very easy and a lot of fun. It is just like working with redstone in Minecraft; you can make a simple lever-to-open-door setup, while you can also make a complicated Minecraft "calculator" or mob arenas. The only difference is that we don't have that much graphics, but words and symbols instead, in coding. However, obviously coding is much more powerful. 😀

The PHP official documentation said somewhere,

... is very dangerous because it allows execution of arbitrary PHP code. 

Being able to write and execute code brings you to the top of the world. After finally finishing a piece of software after a long time of trial and error, it would feel like you have flown through the stars, and now you are there, actualizing your dream. Are you ready for that?