Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] fantasy sports module

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

Thanks for the info.  These really sounds great.

I still have to talk it over with my other developers.  I'm not sure how 
hot they will be on the idea.

But I definitely look forward to doing some other module development.  
Mainly something to turn a phpws install into a fan/official site about a 
sports team.  I was thinking of a "sportsteam" module that would include a 
roster/player/personnel structure and a games/schedule structure which 
would/could be a mod of the existing calendar system.  Let me know what 
you think in that regards.

I look forward to seeing your docs.  FANTASTIC job on phpws overall.  0.9 
is definitely a "killer app" in my book and will save me tons of time 
setting up sites for people pro bono.

Don.

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Adam Morton wrote:

> Don,
> 
> That sounds like an awsome idea!  And I think it can be done with phpws
> 0.9.x.  I'm not a huge sports nut so forgive me if I fumble through some
> of this.  I am a uge code nut though, so I'll give you any help in that
> department that I can. Some things to keep in mind so you can implement
> this module the way you want:
> 
> - Look into dynamic table creation.  This would allow you to add/remove
> fantasy leagues or teams.  Or if you have a database-savvy person on your
> team, they may be able to come up with a better solution.  This was just
> the first thing that came to my mind since I recently implemented that in
> a module I created for ASU.
> 
> - Transfer variables are your friend.  Matt could probably shed more light
> on this subject than I can but I believe you could have your module show
> up wherever you wish and show whatever content you wish.  This would allow
> you to show arbitrary data to the anonymous user on the mainpage and
> user-specific data to a user that has logged in.  You could even have
> several blocks show up upon login that could show anything you like (e.g.:
> the icons you mentioned, or maybe scores from a game that the user wanted
> to monitor?)
> 
> I am working on the core classes some more this week (just changing naming
> conventions and shuffling a bit to get us up to par with the PEAR style).
> As I finish each class I'm going to put together some documentation on
> that classes functions and what they do.  This should be a good reference
> for you and other module developers out there.  I'll be sure to post to
> the list when it becomes available.
> 
> I hope some of this info is useful to you.  If you run into problems or
> have any questions, post to this list and I'll try to help in any way I
> can.
> 
> Good Luck!
> Adam
> 
> > 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.
> >
> >
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> Adam Morton
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> Appalachian State University
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