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Svoboda
03-31-2008, 08:41 AM
How would you go about this? Let me preface this by stating I've got limited knowledge, mainly enough to create simple scripts. That said, I want to let my forum users rank the Top 25 college football teams on a weekly basis. I've created my database tables and have setup the ranking display page. Where I'm stuck is coming up with a front end for the user to rank the teams. You can see what I've got thus far in the link below.

http://www.goldhelmet.com/rankings.php?week=1

The rank'em page would display the 120 Division I college football teams and the user would select and order his/her Top 25 and then send it to a mySQL database. Each record in the ranking table includes: rankid (auto increment), userid (user's forum id), weekid (passed through page as shown above), teamid (pulled from database), rank (number between 1-25), points (number between 25-1).

Does anyone have any ideas how to tackle this?

yamaharuss
03-31-2008, 01:17 PM
If I were doing it I would probably have a ranking box at the right under your "Conference Breakdown" box, then have a "rank" icon by each team. Using AJAX I would dynamically add the ranked team to the ranking box as the user clicked them. Maybe have a delete icon in the ranking so the selection can be removed.

Svoboda
03-31-2008, 08:33 PM
With 120 teams I'd assume that would be very cumbersome. Additionally, I plan on having additional resources there already for the end user. I definitely want the voting to be done on an additional page.