Win/Loss/Yield Req - php programmer?

[kompressaur]

I want to add a feature to TDP Betting Blog pages. It would have to allow people to input their selections, prices and stakes. Then it would need the user to 'settle' their bets and then display their record on their betting blog for all to see.

I understand that there could be a bit of work involved and you would want paying for your time. If you could make what i want above then please tell me here or by PM and we can discuss costs etc

All i want is the above to happen and for it to happen soon.

thanks

[kompressaur]

actually hold on a sec. Surely this would be easy enough to make up using xml as Quandram showed me with the Euro competition?

Bah it needs front ends and back ends etc. I would rather just pay someone to make us exactlly what we need. anyone?

[traeth]

i've got an xl sheet that i acquired i could mail to you which you could modify to suit , if that is any help
i do not have the ability to make on myself.

looks like this , i don't know how to post an xl sheet

TOTAL 1 30.00 -30.00 -100%
BET ANALYSIS .. Bets Stake Profit Yield
Single 1 30.00 -30.00 -100%
Double 0 0.00 0.00 #DIV/0!
Treble 0 0.00 0.00 #DIV/0!
Acca 0 0.00 0.00 #DIV/0!
Fixed Odds 1 30.00 -30.00 -100%
Over/Under 0 0.00 0.00 #DIV/0!
Scorer 0 0.00 0.00 #DIV/0!
Bookings 0 0.00 0.00 #DIV/0!
Asian 0 0.00 0.00 #DIV/0!
EPL 0 0.00 0.00 #DIV/0!
CC 0 0.00 0.00 #DIV/0!
CC1+2 0 0.00 0.00 #DIV/0!
Welsh 0 0.00 0.00 #DIV/0!
Champions Lge 0 0.00 0.00 #DIV/0!
eraill 0 0.00 0.00 #DIV/0!
Date Competition Bet Description Market Bet Type Stake Odds W/L Bookmaker Comm Profit

.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
24-Med-06 other Barcalona v Valencia Fixed Odds Single 30.00 1.650 L mansions -30.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
TOTAL 30.00 -30.00

[traeth]

it does not look like what printed in the post above

[kompressaur]

Interesting Traeth thanks. Hold onto it for now whiilst i have a think about it. It could be more trouble than it's worth mind and maybe just getting someone to make us up exactly what we want would be the best way to go. If it's too expensive to get made (my highest price im keeping secret for now) then it looks like some long summer nights working on this. I'll be giving this my attention this week so we should know more by this time next week.

[Quandram]

Originally Posted by komp

actually hold on a sec. Surely this would be easy enough to make up using xml as Quandram showed me with the Euro competition?

Bah it needs front ends and back ends etc. I would rather just pay someone to make us exactlly what we need. anyone?

The stuff might be able to be stored in xml but you will need a php or asp (or similar) frontend to it i'd have thought and you might as well hook that on to a database by that point.

That's a little beyond my amateur status for web development.

I don't know what the code that runs in the background for the forum is but if that can be customised then that might be the easiest way. Don't know how possible that is or how you'd make anything else hook in to the forum structure.

[kompressaur]

Thanks for the pointers Quandram and i hope your hangover has left you and not the wife

I think im gonna have to learn php or that php bit of software. development kit or something. I'll hopefully get a chance soon.

Anyhow till then folk does anyone want the job?

[rene]

I tried something and sort some php code out but it´s too difficult to make it alone.

that could be a possbile try

Request 1 - Team decision
Request 2 - win-draw-lose

phps advantage is that you have many many possibilties to do the job and do it good.

my first try was a html form with simple text areas to fill in the both teams who´ll play against each other. "send" it to the php program but open it on the same site. These two teams are fixed as text now - no chance to edit it after the selection and now 3 radio buttons to decide the outcome. "send" button again and send it to a file where the bet is safed.

Problems:
1. the easiest way to safe in files is an .txt file but it would be too long after some time
2. how to appraise?
3.include it in the forum software (that will be the most difficult part)

Maybe I need a partner with mysql experience. It´ll be the easiest way to safe the bets.
I read in two php books and tried something but SQL isn´t easy and I need much time for it... (fucking employer don´t give me holidays for it ).
Don´t know much about XML.

@Quandram
I can make so a php design without functionality if you can make the "bet-machine" to work. But you need much more than xml to give it a run needn´t you?

@komp
A professional php programer will take more than 500€ for this project - can´t imagine that you have the money for it. Do you searched for a php-amateur-programer forum?
Maybe there are some amateurs with that knowledge you want??

[kompressaur]

A professional php programer will take more than 500€ for this project - can´t imagine that you have the money for it.

I dont Rene but i could get it if thats what it's gonna cost. I want what i want and i just want to give our members what they want. Again due to time restraints i'll have to look into all this next week Rene. thanks for your input as ever Rene. you call a spade a spade and thats good.

[rene]

you call a spade a spade and thats good.

thanks komp..

i reserved some time tomorrow on the german bank holiday to try it again ... Maybe I can program a snip and any other programer can build on it ...

[rene]

worked a bit on it today.

I program now a snip with these things

1.select two team (by fill in by text)
2.select result (home,away or draw)
3.send it to a .txt file and safe it there.

- created also a mysql database
- created tables

But I need to read the whole SQL stuff to can do it with php. sql has its own code

It´s funny with the .txt file. Have never thought that I come to this point in 3 hours and with two books

But I mark that we must have a mysql database...

step by step ... 30 minutes to the TDP is my next step

[kompressaur]

How you going Rene? Im gonna have a look at this for an hour. Im gonna try and look at some dreamweaver forms workaround for now. Its the database bit i dont understatnd. infact i dont understand any of it. ill geive it a try though. I suppose the records just need to be local to the webpage. If someone just gets the options to type them in and then ...bah it's gonna be hard. Ill see what's out there tho

[kompressaur]

i suppose it all is database queries etc. either i have to give up or find some software that bridges database's etc to the man in the street.

[kompressaur]

remind me to get this and try learn some when i get a chance
http://uk.php.net/downloads.php

[kompressaur]

tutorials
http://www.melonfire.com/community/c...?id=269&page=2