[Phpwebsite-developers] fantasy sports module

[Don S. <do...@se...>]

hullo.

I and a select group of others, including mhnoyes of mhnoyes fame, are 
developers on the ffl project at sourceforge.  I'll spare your frenzied 
searching and tell you that it is a php/mysql cms for fantasy football.  
Originally the project was me going solo.

However mhnoyes got me and the developers of the other sourceforge ffl 
projects together for a meeting of the proverbial Five Families.  Except 
there were only 4 of us.  And 2 were on the same project.  Whatever.  You 
know what I mean.  Basically we agreed that we need to come together and 
make a kick-ass fantasy sports website that would support any sport using 
a fantasy "core" and sport-specific "modules".

We were going to write it all from the ground up.  Mike (mhnoyes) proposed 
just writing it as a big fat module for phpwebsite.  I knew nothing of 
phpws and shrugged the idea off.  However now I've seen the light and the 
0.9 version is it.

Contrary to what you're thinking, I didn't write to give you my personal 
A&E Biography.  I'd like to know what your thoughts are on how to go about 
implementing a fantasy sports site that would support multiple leagues.  
Obviously if it were to only support a single league then there is no 
problem.

What I'd like to see is when the user logs in he/she will be presented 
with icons or a menu with a link to each of his existing fantasy teams on 
the various leagues installed on that site.  Then an option to join others 
etc.  If user is not logged in just show basic non-league specific blah.

I'm going back and forth on whether or not this would work as a phpws 
module.  Mike brought up the idea of the branch creator, but as I 
understand it that would be a separate install, and I would like all the 
leagues in the one database so a single login would give access to them 
all.

So I thought I'd go to the source and see what the masters think.

Don.