online score board tally

Hi Guys, I have webspace that will allow me to use php and everything, I have no restrictions from the server, so what i want to do can be done in the simplest way possible, whatever that may be...

Basically I want to build a scoreboard

I want a simple grid system, with names of players on the x and y axis, and the relevent squares greyed out so that a player cant play himself. I was hoping to have it so that if you left click in the box, it adds 1 to the total of that box, then if you right click it removes 1.

Has anyone got or done or know how to do something like this. I think the way to do it is to make a table in html then in each square of the table have a little line of php that when clicked, it adds 1 to a variable saved in a notepad file, and displays that variable in its place. Please can someone help me here. I am very very new to php.

Is this the way to do it?
Thanks

To accomplish this project, your going to need to know a bit of javascript for the right click. What would be easier is just to have 2 buttons (Add and Subtract).

Assuming you have access to mysql, i would use that instead of a text file.

do you have an example project you can show me???

this is a little messy, but gets done what you want to get done. but, I've stored everything in the query string (whereas you would probably want to store things in a database or text file for convenience). you'd only need to change the way the $scores array is built to change this, and the way that the +/- links function.

PHP Code:

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<style type="text/css">
  * { font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana; }
  a { text-decoration: none; }
  table { border: 0; padding: 0; }
  td { border: 1px solid #000; width: 50px; height: 50px; text-align: center; }
  td em { font-style: normal; font-size: 14pt; }
  .black { background: #000; color: #fff; text-align: right; }
  .name { width: 150px; padding-right: 5px; }
  .vname { height: 150px; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px; text-align: center; line-height: 10pt; }
</style>
<table>
<?php
  $players = array("david", "robert", "patrick", "nathan", "barbie"); //5 total players
  $scores = array();
  //grab values from GET if there are any, otherwise default to 0
  for($y = 0; $y < count($players); $y++){
    for($x = 0; $x < count($players); $x++){
      $c = $y . '-' . $x;
      $scores[$y][$x] = (isset($_GET[$c])) ? $_GET[$c] : 0;
  }}


  for($i = 0; $i < count($players); $i++){
    //y
?>
  <tr>
    <td class="black name"><?php echo $players[$i]; ?></td>
<?php
    for($j = 0; $j < count($players); $j++){
      //x
      if($j == $i){
        //players can't play themselves
?>
    <td class="black">&nbsp;</td>
<?php
      }else{
        $q = getenv("QUERY_STRING");
        $coord = $i . '-' . $j;
        $fndq = $coord . "=" . $scores[$i][$j];
        $addq = $coord . "=" . ($scores[$i][$j] + 1); //this is what we're adding to the query string
        $subq = $coord . "=" . ($scores[$i][$j] - 1); // ''
        //if there's already this variable in the query string, we want to replace it rather than append to it
        if(strpos($q, $fndq) === false){
          $aq = $q . "&" . $addq;
          $sq = $q . "&" . $subq;
        }else{
          $aq = str_replace($fndq, $addq, $q);
          $sq = str_replace($fndq, $subq, $q);
        }
?>
    <td><a href="?<?php echo $aq; ?>">+</a> <em><?php echo $scores[$i][$j]; ?></em> <a href="?<?php echo $sq; ?>">-</a></td>
<?php
      }
    }
?>
  </tr>
<?php
  }
?>
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
<?php
  for($n = 0; $n < count($players); $n++){
?>
  <td class="black vname" valign="top"><?php for($l = 0; $l < strlen($players[$n]); $l++){ echo $players[$n][$l] . "<br />"; } ?></td>
<?php
  }
?>
  </tr>
</table>

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in action: http://davidmiles.ca/php/players.php

since you're new to PHP, I would definitely recommend that you don't just 'take' this -- but instead, look up the functions used at PHP.net and make sure you understand what's going on in the script. if you have any questions, post them.

edit: fixed a small error.

Nice work Kows. Except it gives negative values for scores.

But nice.

well, no where in his post did he say that negative scores were undesirable, so I don't see why you might think that's a bad thing.

Thanks Kows, That is exactly what I am after, ont have time now to look at the code, but quick question, If the person on the left of the grid is the winner Is it possible to add a total wins and losses at the end of each persons name?

sure. you just need to make an array tally up the scores as the loop runs. I can give you a quick example in a little bit, I'll post another reply when I can.

so, when I had a chance to sit down and actually look at this, it seems like it would much harder to adapt the script I made to do what you wanted with wins/losses than I had originally thought. using a database would be much easier and much more efficient.

now, so that I can get a bit more detail from you, would it not make more sense to completely eliminate the minus sign ("-") from the grid if the person on the left is always the winner? because, for example, if home is on the left and the bottom is away:

Code:

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David (home) vs Robert (away) -> hitting + would give David a win
Robert (home) vs David (away) -> hitting - should give David a win

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it doesn't really make sense to have two separate areas on the same grid to give David a win.

I can write some code that should get you on the way to using a database for this, though I won't go through the hassle of a text file.