RE: [PHP-WIN] What to do, what to do!

Damn, this is definitely uncharted territory, I just learned PHP about a month ago Thank you, Todd Williamsen, MCSE home: 847.265.4692 Cell: 847.867.9427 -----Original Message----- From: Michael Sims [mailto:mhsims@midsouth.rr.com] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 9:18 PM To: Todd Williamsen; php-windows@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] What to do, what to do! At 08:31 PM 12/13/2001 -0600, Todd Williamsen wrote: >I thought about that, but the problem is, what happens when the time >expires and the loser doesn't report? and At 08:55 PM 12/13/2001 -0600, Todd Williamsen wrote: >Since there is a ranking system, and if the game doesn't get reported >by the loser, should it be that the winner automatically gets the win? That's really a design/functionality question, not a PHP one, but nevertheless I see two ways to deal with this. If a game is still pending after a predetermined amount of time, either: (1) Manually intervene by contacting both the winner and loser and see what the hold-up is. or (2) Establish a rule that if a loser fails to either contest a reported game or verify it within the required time frame it will automatically be verified. Which way you go really depends on how many games are reported and how much free time you have. Option 1 puts the responsibility on your shoulders and option 2 puts it on the shoulders of your players. Just depends on what philosophy you take when designing the system. Read on... At 08:39 PM 12/13/2001 -0600, you wrote: >Actually I have no idea where to start on something like this... This >is going to be challenge! But that's what makes it fun. :) It sounds to me that you already had some code and functionality in place before you took it down due to the abuse problems. If this is the case then it shouldn't be terribly difficult to modify/expand it to include the functionality we have been discussing. If you have specific questions or have some code to post I'll throw around my ideas, for whatever they're worth (I'm far from an expert).