On Thursday, December 19, 2013 6:29:33 PM UTC-8, Dave S wrote: > > > > On Thursday, December 19, 2013 11:30:20 AM UTC-8, Cliff wrote: >> >> Hello. >> >> General question here. Me and some friends guess who is going to win >> NCAAF bowl games so I thought I would try and make an app for it. So I >> started off making a table for users, games, picks. >> >> Users -> Person name | email >> bowls -> Bowl name | team 1 | team 2 | time | winner >> picks - > person (reference user) | pick (reference unsure) >> > > I'd add in a table of teams -> id | school name | team name | visitor [ | > colors | coach name | atheletic director name | BCS rank | other trivia] > (visitor can be a boolean, to pick which team is listed in the left drop > down.) > (I don't know that you need to have a link back to the bowl in the team > table; I'd skip doing that unless you figured out a specific need for it.) > > (note, allow the DAL to setup IDs in each table, which will be referenced. > For instance, team1 in db.bowls will be a reference to teams.id) > > db.picks.pick would also be a reference to teams.id. > > > >> What I would like to do is make a page with an arg for user where I can >> enter their picks and it store it in a DB for that user. An example would >> be Bowl game 1: Team 1 vs Team 2 then a drop down list or radio button to >> select the team. Bowl game 2: team 1 vs team 2 drop down list to select the >> team etc etc.. Then later be able to list what user is ahead by wins. What >> I am getting caught up with is how to setup my databases. >> >> Oops, I think you need at least 1 field in the bowls table to indicate the winner. One way of doing it would be a boolean "homevictor" to indicate that the home team won. Hmmm, maybe 2 booleans, the other one being "gameover". I think your counting of user victories would be a join of their picks and the bowl victory counts, but I'm an 90 pound SQL weakling, so maybe Niphlod, Alan, or Anthony will provide a clearer picture of that.
> If someone could point me in the right direction I would greatly >> appreciate it. >> > > I think the extra table for teams is the main change I would make. Sounds > like a fun project to do over the holiday weekend. Be sure and let us know > how it turned out and how your friends reacted. > > (Next year's goal: moblile app client for your friends' phones) > > /dps -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
