(11-16-2017, 07:18 PM)7hawk77 Wrote:Yeah, If I ever get a large break of time, I might attempt trying to figure out a way to automate the update process.I've thought about this too. In theory you could build it into the forum itself. The forum has it's own database after all. That would eliminate the need for logins as you could authenticate through the forum user table
Something like the following.
Er or someone goes to the update site and goes to an admin feed page and types in the following:
Bzerkap 4
7hawk77 2
This adds that TPE to our player page.
We can go to our player pages they are essentially attribute calculators which automatically handle the different TPE amount ranges.
With that 2 TPE, I could press the plus button for my hands twice and then a submit button. So basically the checking would all be done by the website.
Then it could output all of the players in whatever way they get fed in to the sim, csv whatever.
I think the biggest challenges would be getting the users associated with a user page. Since it would basically be an outside custom website, it would probably need a login and security which would be separate from the main forum which would be kind of terrible. However we would want to ensure that no one could update anyone elses player.
The TPE/attribute calculator wouldn't be too bad. The feed page wouldn't be too bad. The output job thing would be pretty annoying i bet.
Problem is whether or not you have access to that via jcink
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