Damn, this is definitely uncharted territory, I just learned PHP about a
month ago

Thank you,
 
Todd Williamsen, MCSE
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 9:18 PM
To: Todd Williamsen; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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).




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