[phpesp-general] Re: Is ESP right for me?

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

Well phpESP would probably get you half way there. You
could certainly use it to get the information you want from
the users. You can use the authorized survey feature to
prevent ballot stuffing, as long as you have users login
with HTTP authentication.

However, you would have to write your own custom statistics
page to generate the format you need for scores from the
collected data.

I'd suggest you go to the online demo, and try out phpESP
yourself. Make a survey with the kind of data you need and
see how it works.

A link to the demo can be found on the main web page:
  http://phpesp.sf.net/

-James

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Purple Raine wrote:

> I run a popular gaming site and very recently another
> gaming site handed me their code because they were
> closing down.
>
> The main attraction of their website is that they
> ACCUMULATED Battle Results and CALCULATED different
> stats with it.
>
> That was an amazing feature because they tallied more
> than 10,000 battle results.  Unfortunately, they did it
> all by hand! =( Basically, if a user had a result, they
> would submit it via e-mail to the webmaster and he
> would hand-calculate it and add it to the site.
>
> Well, I'm hoping for something automated and here's my
> idea:
>
> Say for instance, there are 10 different armies in the
> game we play. When a user comes to this BATTLE RESULTS
> page, they choose which are the armies involved in the
> battle (probably best with a survey type multiple
> choice) - so they choose Army B DEFEATS Army C.
>
> He hits submit and the data is sent to a database and
> it's stored. Then, on the following pages, the user can
> choose to view these stats ::
>
> a) A list of each army stating the amount of battles
> fought for each, the amount of victories, and the
> winninger % of each army.
>
> b) A table displaying the army vs army winning
> percentage.  So it basically lists all the armies on
> the X axis and all the armies on the Y axis, and lists
> % of victories against each respective army.
>
> c) A Table that states which is the most popular
> armies, in order.
>
> That's it!
>
> Bonuses?  IP-logging and graphical representation ...
>
> I asked a friend for an opinion and she suggested that
> I go with PHP and MySQL, but unfortunately, I don't
> know either of those.
>
> So then I come across PHPESP, is this the right tool
> for me?
>
> I'm thinking of giving the users to questions - the
> first is to choose the WINNER of the battle (multiple
> choice style), the second is to choose the LOSER of the
> battle ... then from that, the system will be able to
> use the stats to calculate what I want... (I will also
> take other information, like date, type of battle,
> etc)... but I'm just wondering, is this the right tool
> for me?  phpESP?
>
> Thanks for your input!