I know what I want but have no idea where to start...

GlennP

Hi all,

I have little experience with PHP but willing to give it a try but need a push start.

What I am after is something that will look up a football draw from a SQL database and depending on the date show the current games and output it to the browser (Formatted naturally!). If there is something that someone knows about that roughly matches this request please push me in the right direction.

In case someone is bored and what’s to come up with the solution for me the requirements are:
I want to display last weeks draw as well and this weeks and next weeks.
There are 16 teams in the league.
I would like to indicate which team who won by making them appear bold in the output so the database needs a field to show who won.
Even better would be the option to mouse over the game to show other info such as final scores, venue location etc (free text)

Thanks in advance for any suggestion.

Glenn.

fire_cracker

Sounds like a pretty complex thing for a starter script, but it can be done. First I would urge you to design your database. It sounds like there is a ton of information that you want to store. That is a great first step. Decide how many tables you want it in (like one for schedule and one for results), then decide what fields they need to have (like id, date, time, home, visitor, venue, etc). Then input all the data you can through your database front end (like PHPmyAdmin).

Secondly I would say you should study some basic PHP coding, and read through some of the php manual (php.net). Try and work out a part of it, and if you have more questions to go along with your code, stop on back by and we'll help you out.

If you really don't want to develop it on your own (hey, not everyone is born to code) then check out http://www.rentacoder.com and you can hire someone to do the work for you (or you can send me a PM and I might take the job lol).

At any rate, best of luck to you.