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).




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