I am a fairly decent PHP coder but I need some fast help with a somewhat interesting problem that probably requires some Java.
We ran a contest. Each employee got a virtual ballot for every $100.00 of goods they sold. We now want to pick the winner from each of five zones. The zones are based on their province of residence (I am from Canada).
I have the ballots in a mySQL table called ballots with the columns ballots _id (an auto-incrementing number), employee number and province.
I need a program that can select the numbers from the database, and display a spinning number or the eligible contestants from a particular 'zone' and they alow a senior executive to click to stop on a winning number.
Any idea how to have the numbers scroll on the machine at high speed and then let another person click to interupt the scrolling and choose the winner.
I would also be interested in any other good ideas to allow a third party - not the software - to have an inpact on the choice of a random number.
I am familiar with most random functions within PHP and use them for other projects. This is a display problem that I hope one of you smart guys (or girls) can give me some help with.
Thanks!
Brian
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