card game event reporter

hi i have a small web project that i am working on and have gotten stuck trying to convert what i have in concept into code.

the idea is to make a tournement event reporter for a online card game that has no pre installed reporter below is how the reporter would run

outline for event reporter
On load
Player Logs in
ask player if they want to enter event
if yes
enter player into the listings
if no
player watches listings
before round starts
if first round
randomly generate match pairings
else
pair players on last rounds win/draw/lose ratio and who players haven't played against during this event
during round
show current standings of the event
countdown timer
start timer at 1:00:00 text colour green
if timer.time is less than 0:30:00
text colour = amber
alert message Half hour left
else if timer.time is less than 0:15:00
text colour = Red
alert message fifteen minutes left
else if timer.time is 0:00:00
alert message end of round
players enter match scores in the form of 2-0/2-1 1-2/0-2 or 1-1
if player =2-0/2-1
add 1 to win counter
else if player = 1-2/0-2
add 1 to loss counter
else
add 1 to both players draw counter
update standings


i have already got the user table set up with end of match scores set in a MySQL database the main bits that are troubling me are the IF statments and the 1 hour count down timers

and sample codes would be greatly apriciated

We exist to help people. I'm sorry, but our volunteer contributions don't extend to writing massive amounts of code methods for people who have done almost nothing.

If you have a more concrete setup available, perhaps you could share that code. Then we could assist further.

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Originally Posted by PeejAvery

We exist to help people. I'm sorry, but our volunteer contributions don't extend to writing massive amounts of code methods for people who have done almost nothing.

If you have a more concrete setup available, perhaps you could share that code. Then we could assist further.

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i understand that i wasnt hoping for loads of doe to be posted for me i was hoping for some sample sippets on how to do certain bits in it as i have only just started workin with php and was getting abit lost in it all. i appologise for any misunderstanding.

i have gotten the roughs basis for the pairings sorted for the initail start up of the "event" as such but the following rounds has got me puzzled. my code so far for the pairings is

Code:

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<?php
// Display records from the table
        $sql = "SELECT * FROM members where picked='0'";
        echo "<table border='1'>";
        do {
            // Select records from the DB
            $query = "SELECT * FROM members WHERE Online='1' AND picked='0'
              ORDER BY Rand() LIMIT 2";
            $result = mysql_query($query);

            while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_NUM)) {
                echo "<tr><td>$row[3]</td>";
                mysql_query("update members set picked='1' where login='$row[3]'") or die(mysql_error());
            }
            // Display records from the table
            echo "<table border='1'>";
            while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_NUM)) {
                echo "<td>$row[3]</td>";
                mysql_query("update members set picked='1' where login='$row[3]'") or die(mysql_error());
            }
            echo"</tr>";
        } while ($Result = mysql_query($sql));
        echo "</table>";
?>

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which as i said above works for the 1st round pairings but after round one some players will have a win and need to be pair against each other and the same for players with a loss a code snippet on how to do this would be helpfull as i would assume that this could just go inside an if statment or would there be an easier way than that??

You should have a column for the games played as well. That way you can reference the last game to see if it was a win/loss. If you have that data in your database, then adding a simple WHERE clause will give you the results.

in the mySQl table i have got colums for "win", "loss"and "draw" of which with each round the wins get added to the relevent ones and was thinking if possible do and if statment which will reference a mysqul_query with a where clause in it. i think i know how to write this (and hope i wont get any errors). also is there a way to set what "member ids" or "logins" a certain player has played against??? thank you for all you help

You should have an additional table for game data. I accidentally said column, but meant table. That way you can reference the latest matches and figure out the winners. It should have the following columns.

• game_id
• timestamp
• player_1_id (match with user's table)
• player_2_id (match with user's table)
• winner_id (match with user's table)

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Originally Posted by PeejAvery

You should have an additional table for game data. I accidentally said column, but meant table. That way you can reference the latest matches and figure out the winners. It should have the following columns.

• game_id
• timestamp
• player_1_id (match with user's table)
• player_2_id (match with user's table)
• winner_id (match with user's table)

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thaks for clearing that up. i would assume that i could use the generation code in the above post to generate and then link said login id to the player1/2 columns.