Online gaming calendar

[MarkAshley]

Following my post about Dynamite in the Gaming forum, I think we need an online gaming calendar on a.org. People who want to host games can add the name of the game they are hosting and their server name/IP, at the time and date they want to play. Then people can add their names to confirm they will be available at that time to play. What does everybody think?

[MarkAshley]

Exactly what I had in mind. Maybe I will try to develop it myself, if the a.org admins don't want to do it.

[MarkAshley]

Eventually yes, I suppose it could be extended to other formats.

I don't really have the time to dedicate to this at the moment. Hopefully a.org will consider it

[MarkAshley]

I'm starting to develop it now. I've got Apache, PHP and MySQL running on my Mac Mini. Time to learn PHP now  :-o

[MarkAshley]

Cool! I might take you up on that. I'm looking for some sponsorship too  :-D

I've been reading over some PHP/MySQL tutorials and it looks well easy, so it shouldn't take too long to get the site functional (if not pretty  :lol: )

[MarkAshley]

Yes

[MarkAshley]

It's going well so far. I've got a very basic site up and running (literally just a few html forms). The database is functional and the PHP code is able to add game entries in. You just enter your name, the name of the game, and the date and time, and it adds a record to the database. You can then search for a game and it returns a list of dates and times, or you can enter a username and it will return all of the games that person is hosting.

[MarkAshley]

Thanks  :-D  Nice to get some encouraging comments from you guys. The site is coming along nicely. You can now organise and cancel games, join games other people have organised and remove yourself from them if you need to, and search by game name or date. Starting to pretty up the interface and need to get some of the more complex functionality in place. ie session management and user logons  :-o