This product is built for PHP/MySQL web developers, who are passionate about creating a Xiangqi game for online playing.

There are 4 options: Play with friend, Play with AI, Play in room, and Set up the board

1. Play with AI: Users play directly on the front page. There are 4 levels: Newbie, Easy, Normal, and Hard.
2. Play with friend: Users press on the button "PLAY WITH FRIEND" on the front page and practice with friend. 
3. Play in room: Users press on the button "HOST A ROOM", host a new room with random Room code, and create a password for you and your friend, also capable of Inviting friend to play by sending the link. Users can also access the page "Rooms" to enter a hosted room. Users can choose Red Side or Black Side, Red moves first.
4. Set up the board: Players press on the link "Set Up". In this option, players can arrange the chess pieces and press "CAPTURE THE BOARD" to challenge friends.

1. AI feature with 4 levels: Newbie, Easy, Normal, and Hard. The AI is based on Minimax Alpha Beta algorithm.
2. Hosting Room feature: user can host new room with a password.
3. Set up board with Board Capture.
4. Share Board feature: user can Share the board with others.

Server Requirements:

• PHP >= 7.2.5
• BCMath PHP Extension
• Ctype PHP Extension
• Fileinfo PHP extension
• JSON PHP Extension
• Mbstring PHP Extension
• OpenSSL PHP Extension
• PDO PHP Extension
• Tokenizer PHP Extension
• XML PHP Extension

I. Requirements
  - PHP >= 7.2.5
  - BCMath PHP Extension
  - Ctype PHP Extension
  - Fileinfo PHP extension
  - JSON PHP Extension
  - Mbstring PHP Extension
  - OpenSSL PHP Extension
  - PDO PHP Extension
  - Tokenizer PHP Extension
  - XML PHP Extension
II. Installation
After you've downloaded the product and extracted the contents from the ZIP package, you can start the installation process.
 1/ Importing the database
  - Create a new MySQL database (optional).
  - Create a new MySQL username and password (optional).
  - Import the Database.sql file from the MySQL folder into your MySQL database.
 2/ Setting-up and uploading the files
  - With a text editor open the Script/.env and update the values of APP_NAME, APP_URL, DB_DATABASE, DB_USERNAME, DB_PASSWORD with your own information.
  - Upload the contents inside the Script folder on the location where you want the product to be installed at, i.e. root folder (public_html or htdocs or www).
III. Web Server Configuration
  - Apache: You should leave the .htaccess in root folder and public folder as is.
In root folder:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
        Options -MultiViews
    </IfModule>

    RewriteEngine On

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
    RewriteRule ^ ^$1 [N]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (\.\w+$) [NC]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ server.php
</IfModule>

In public folder:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
        Options -MultiViews -Indexes
    </IfModule>

    RewriteEngine On

    # Handle Authorization Header
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
    RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
    RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]

    # Send Requests To Front Controller...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

  - Nginx:

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name example.com;
  root /srv/example.com/public;
  add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
  add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
  add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";

  index index.php;

  charset utf-8;

  location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
  }

  location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
  location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }

  error_page 404 /index.php;

  location ~ \.php$ {
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    include fastcgi_params;
  }

  location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
    deny all;
  }
}