Festival Tipping Competition Application

HigginsJ · 06-06-2011 2:46pm

If its any help, i think the home page looks well. Very inviting for 1st timers and the fact you include that its not for money would encourage people to sign-up.

Keep up the good work.

UrbanSea · 06-06-2011 2:59pm

I'm getting the same Nulty.

Register

8 errors prohibited this account from being created:

First name can't be blank
Last name can't be blank
Username can't be blank
Username is too short (minimum is 6 characters)
Email can't be blank
Email is invalid
Password doesn't match confirmation
Password Missing password
*All fields are required

Nulty · 06-06-2011 4:21pm

My problem stems from security features I'm implementing (you don't want someone hacking into the application and getting at user records, do you? Especially later when I'll hope fully taking payment for the "payed game" option). They're a bit of a hack for now but they work, only problem is they're ****ing up the user access. Thats why signing up and activation emails are being affected. When I fix one thing, it breaks another. Especially when its deployed - things that work on my local machine break when uploaded and run on the web server which is much more picky about things than my test server.

I won't get my hopes up for getting it ready for Royal Ascot. I have a lot on my plate here so its gonna take time. I'll test and retest it before asking you to use it again.

I may take out the email activation and let users create an account just for Royal Ascot. It'll be a dumbed down version but it'll take selections, put them on a leaderboard and thats all that we need for that. And I can keep working on the main application in the background. If I can get that to work seamlessly then we can have a one-off Royal Ascot competition.

Nulty · 06-06-2011 4:22pm

UrbanSea wrote: »

I'm getting the same Nulty.

Register

8 errors prohibited this account from being created:

First name can't be blank
Last name can't be blank
Username can't be blank
Username is too short (minimum is 6 characters)
Email can't be blank
Email is invalid
Password doesn't match confirmation
Password Missing password
*All fields are required

Don't bother with it for now, its going to take time to get it working.

UrbanSea · 06-06-2011 4:24pm

Okie doke. Good luck with it.

Nulty · 07-06-2011 10:27pm

Try it again. It works for me. Even with non-gmail accounts.

HigginsJ · 07-06-2011 11:03pm

Fair play Nulty.

Nulty · 07-06-2011 11:07pm

:eek:

Its working?

:P

I'm starting to get the horses together for the G1s at Royal Ascot starting with Goldikova (ladies first!). I'll make the Royal Ascot registration available in the next couple of days. Looking forward to it!

If theres any thing you don't understand or think could work better (not look better, at least for now) then don't hesitate to drop a note here or to the email at the bottom of the home page.

UrbanSea · 08-06-2011 9:24pm

Signed her up last night Nulty

Nulty · 09-06-2011 4:36pm

Going to do another test competition on Saturday.

I really need a test to go smoothly before trying the Royal Ascot Competition.

Sign up today and the races for Saturday will be available at midnight (sharp!) tonight. I'll be able to update non runners fairly regularly so if you think you've selected a non-runner, I can destroy your selection so you can make a new one.

So sign up today or tomorrow and you can make selections right up until the off time of each race.

I haven't implemented a "Lost Password" function yet so try keep hold of your password until after next week at least!

These are the 6 races for Saturday:

Time|Track|Race|TV?
2:40| York| ladbrokes.com Stakes (Handicap) Cl2 1m208y |CH4
2:55| Sandown| totesport 0800 221 221 Handicap Cl2 7f16y|CH4
3:15| York| Bond Tyres Trophy Stakes (Handicap) Cl2 6f |CH4
3:20| Chester| Raymond Corbett Memorial Handicap Cl2 7f122y|-
3:30| Sandown| totesport.com Scurry Stakes (Listed Race) Cl1 5f6y| CH4
3:55| Chester| Bet At corbettsports.com Handicap Cl2 1m2f75y|-

Far from easy races!

Bluetonic · 10-06-2011 11:15am

Haven't had a chance to register yet but the site could do with a lot of work SEO wise if you want it to turn up in search results.

If you need any pointers just ask.

Nulty · 10-06-2011 1:08pm

Thanks B. Very generous offer. I might just take you up on it in the future.

Nulty · 11-06-2011 11:11am

Nulty · 11-06-2011 12:25pm

Amateur error occurred - all fixed.

I'm not going to screw around with it anymore so it will definitely work smoothly throughout the afternoon.

Promise

If you're really interested (which I'm sure you're not) to know why the system wasn't working, heres why -

I changed my smtp password last night because it was blatantly guessable but forgot to tell the application about the change so it wasn't able to send the activation emails.

I have resent activation emails so check your inbox

Denners.ie · 11-06-2011 1:14pm

Nulty wrote: »

Amateur error occurred - all fixed.

I'm not going to screw around with it anymore so it will definitely work smoothly throughout the afternoon.

Promise

If you're really interested (which I'm sure you're not) to know why the system wasn't working, heres why -

I changed my smtp password last night because it was blatantly guessable but forgot to tell the application about the change so it wasn't able to send the activation emails.

I have resent activation emails so check your inbox

I think you have spoken too soon, I just registered again and still cannot get an activation e-mail.

Nulty · 11-06-2011 1:22pm

Are you sure? Its working as far as I can see. PM me your email address and I'll sort you out

Nulty · 11-06-2011 4:24pm

Nice one Crumbs, winner of the inaugeral Big Race Winners competition with a profit of 9.43pts

Things should be much smoother for the Royal meeting. This was a great trial run and I learned a lot from it and ironed out a lot of creases in the guts of the application but still have plenty to work on.

Thanks for taking part everyone.

mr.jingle · 11-06-2011 6:30pm

Well done Nulty very good trial even if i couldn't pick my nose never mind a winner! Roll on Ascot:D:D:D

Denners.ie · 11-06-2011 6:48pm

Just a suggestion Nulty but would it not be a good idea to enable users to go e/w on horses? Say they would get a quota of 20 points for a festival and could distribute them as they wish, even able to put more than 1 point on certain picks.

It might be too late now but it would keep the competition open until every race as someone could have a 20/1 winner in the last to go top or something.

Looks cool anyway I'll look forward to seeing the finished article.

Nulty · 12-06-2011 5:21pm

Each way betting is something I might to add later but not before Ascot. Its added hassle when calculating each way terms but its doable. I'm just not sure it'll add that much to the app. Finding winners is what the app is all about i.e. Big Race Winners .

I'm still undecided.

As for deciding your stakes, I think this is almost essential in making the effort to ensure there is a clear cut winner. As it stands now its too likely that there will be a tie, staking would make that less likely.

I'm going to tighten up what I've got for now though and think about expanding it later.

Any further suggestions are welcome

cronkfield · 12-06-2011 7:13pm

Hi Nulty,

You can try my website, which hosts tipping comp's for all the big festivals. Save you the work. www.sportinggalaxy.com

Nulty · 12-06-2011 10:07pm

Thanks but

1) I need the practice in building web applications
2) My site will always provide a FREE game option
3) I've started so I'll finish

Nulty · 14-06-2011 12:06am

Royal Ascot is open for business!

I hope it goes smoothly but **** happens! It'll be a while before I open the application for business again after this cause theres so much work to be done. This was obviously a rush job so it could be available for Ascot. Next festival could be Longchamp or Champions Day or even Breeders Cup....we'll have to see. It'll be much better by then though.

Good luck to all who sail in her!

Nulty · 14-06-2011 1:06am

**** happened already

Some users were destroyed and will need to sign up again. I know Esprit is one of them. Really sorry about that. I added some code I didn't think would be destructive to the database tables but it turns out it was.

Nulty · 14-06-2011 1:34am

Jesus! I just looked at it for the first time in Internet Explorer and its not pretty!

Reminder - I've only tested it in FireFox and Chrome so best use those browsers for now!

ziggy · 14-06-2011 9:14am

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Bluetonic · 14-06-2011 2:48pm

Nulty wrote: »

Royal Ascot is open for business!

Pity you didn't open it earlier than you did, really should have been open two days ago :-(

Nulty · 14-06-2011 3:03pm

ziggy wrote: »

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ziggy67?

Its must be a bug in the festival registration, you are registered so go to the tips page and make your selections. Any problems, I'll keep an eye on this thread.

Nulty · 14-06-2011 3:05pm

Bluetonic wrote: »

Pity you didn't open it earlier than you did, really should have been open two days ago :-(

It was open, races were available from midnight on Sunday. I just announced it t'other day. You had time to register up until 2.10 - unless you're posting from a mobile device which I doubt is supported.

Nulty · 14-06-2011 3:09pm

After race 1

Canford cliffs wins

Position| Username| Profit/Loss |Bets
1| Istabraq| 2.35| 5
2| only1stevo| 2.35| 6
3| Esprit| 2.35| 1
4| bonescap| 2.35| 4
5| aidankk| 2.35| 6
6| mr.jingle| 2.35| 6
7| Denners_Fly| 2.35| 6
8| primadonna| 2.35 |6
9| loadedscream| 2.35| 5
10| ziggy67| 0.00| 0
11| wexford| -1.00| 6
12| Nultyi| -1.00| 3

Festival Tipping Competition Application

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