Looking for someone to code for me :)

[Infernette]

Bump- Contests are muy importiante, can pay with irl money so yes. ^3^ I have all the DB stuff like status, stats, and elements so all I really need is the code. :P

[IntoRain]

Hm, what kind of coding are you looking for (edit: for the contest)? Features, languages? (you can PM me) I have at least one or two weeks of calmness, maybe I can help depending what you want (free)



If not http://www.reddit.com/r/forhire seems a better place to find an experienced coder

[Infernette]

I mean like the actual code- the part where the person selects the pet they want to put into the contest, then other people put theirs in until there are maybe 10 creatures in the contest, then it selects from each of those 10 the top 3 with the highest average of the stats that are relative to the contest and rewards their owners items/money, and once those occur the contest cleanses itself and the pets that were entered lose maybe 5 hp to prevent issue, and there is a list of multiple contests.

^3^

I also need code for a drag and drop sort myadopts page with which is mostly just formatting it to make it look good besides the drag and drop if you're interested.

[IntoRain]

That seems pretty fun and interesting actually. Some ideas come to mind for the page, so I wouldn't mind doing that if you approve the methods.

A page with a list of contests
Different types of contest (for different combination of stats)
Different requirements (species, max amount of creatures per user, max amount of creatures per contest)?
Selecting the adoptable: Eligible adoptables appear in a list, user chooses the one(s) they want
When max number per contest is reached distribute prizes, maybe send a message saying they won X place?
Delete contest, take creatures out and update their HP

For when do you want this? I will check tomorrow if I can do this, I might need a few days to finish it and I need to know how your pages and your database work (what you have ready and everything) to test on a mock site xD

[Infernette]

That all seems correct- and once the basics are working for it I can edit what I need. I need it sometime within the month, no big rush. :)

I can send you what info I have and whatnot, even a current copy of my MYSQL database if needed- Just tell me what you need. ^^

[IntoRain]

Alright, I will start to check out what I need to do tomorrow asap and I will PM you questions about the implementation. I will try to finish it these first two weeks, I don't have much time after that

To start I think I will need the owned_adoptables values (names and what they are for), for now I don't think the whole original database is needed. And also the way you retrieve the stats, is it a query for each stat ($hp = $mysidia->db->blabla) or do you have functions to get them?

[Infernette]

I just do the query since I'm quite dense on how to do the functions, I don't know if that will be a problem.

And I can get you the values in a few minutes, there's quite a few XD
There is all of the basic mysidia values-
Aid
Type
Name
Owner
Currentlevel
Totalclicks
Code
Imageurl
uselaternates
tradestatus
isfrozen
gender
offsprings
lastbred

Then here are all my edits:
Dad - The parent of a bred (breds have higher stats wooo)
Mom- Parent of a bred
Selling- Is it for sale? - if this is yes it shouldn't be able to contest XD
Price- How much is it for sale? greater than 0? no contest
atk - The attack
basehp - The HP it has
maxhp- The HP it should have
spd - The speed of the creature
speciesd- The description
atkrange- The defense (or the range of attack it blocks)
breedtype- Just a little thing to separate breeds
season- The season the adopt has - would be relevant for contests as in if the season of the contest is not the same it can't enter.
time- The time the adopt has- same limiter as the season.
bred- if it was bred or not
status- if it is sick or not- could be randomly added when entered?
mood- there is a bunch of random moods adopts get. I will personally work this part into the code since it is a very widespread range. These will be limiters or enhancers- could vary with maybe the terrain the contest occurs in or the time it does? that would be lovely!


As said I can pay money for this cause its so epic XD

[IntoRain]

Originally Posted by Infernette

I just do the query since I'm quite dense on how to do the functions, I don't know if that will be a problem.

And I can get you the values in a few minutes, there's quite a few XD
There is all of the basic mysidia values-
Aid
Type
Name
Owner
Currentlevel
Totalclicks
Code
Imageurl
uselaternates
tradestatus
isfrozen
gender
offsprings
lastbred

Then here are all my edits:
Dad - The parent of a bred (breds have higher stats wooo)
Mom- Parent of a bred
Selling- Is it for sale? - if this is yes it shouldn't be able to contest XD
Price- How much is it for sale? greater than 0? no contest
atk - The attack
basehp - The HP it has
maxhp- The HP it should have
spd - The speed of the creature
speciesd- The description
atkrange- The defense (or the range of attack it blocks)
breedtype- Just a little thing to separate breeds
season- The season the adopt has - would be relevant for contests as in if the season of the contest is not the same it can't enter.
time- The time the adopt has- same limiter as the season.
bred- if it was bred or not
status- if it is sick or not- could be randomly added when entered?
mood- there is a bunch of random moods adopts get. I will personally work this part into the code since it is a very widespread range. These will be limiters or enhancers- could vary with maybe the terrain the contest occurs in or the time it does? that would be lovely!


As said I can pay money for this cause its so epic XD

I do it for the challenge xD

I have a doubt about the status, sick creatures can't enter the contest? And they get sick or not randomly when trying to enter the contest?

About the moods, that seems to be more complicated. Like if an adoptable is sleepy it can't enter a contest that happens at night? Maybe a table with the moods and their incompatibilities and compatibilities (and a message registered for each) would be of easier access. Check pet mood -> check contest conditions -> compare both?

edit: ok, the .php pages for the contest and the tables are ready to be edited tomorrow, the structure is half ready to start coding ^^ (assuming you want the contest on its own page, right?)

[Infernette]

Yep- and if you find the moods and statuses hard I can do them myself I really just need a good structure to edit XP

[IntoRain]

I will see what I can do xD

Listing of contests is done, do you want a page with the contestants list or just a page to choose our entry and enter the contest?