I don’t think you’ll need to hook into a lot of hooks. I once thought about it and made some notes, but never started development. What I came up with was the following plan:
- Remove the league selector from the standard registration form. Or, even simpler, use a different one with one of the available plugins that offer custom registration.
- Make sure that users that register are removed from any league in the database, because the plugin will always save with a default league (action: footballpool_new_user).
- Redirect users to a page after registration (standard functionality in the plugin or in the plugin that changes the registration form).
- Create a shortcode for the league administration and show this on beforementioned page.
The shortcode can then hold all logic:
- If a user is not part of a league, allow them to create one or to join one e.g. via an invite code or by selecting from a list (depends on what you want).
- If they are part of a league allow them to leave (if not an admin) or to makes changes to the league (e.g. removing users or inviting users).
This is all custom code, but it makes use of the leagues table (and this makes sure that the rest of the plugin can use the default functionality). Depending on how the invite system works, you may also need a custom table to store the invite codes.
This is a simplified flow and no guarantees that I didn’t forget something. It was just an idea 😉
And you can make it as complex as you want, of course.
yes that exactly the kind of walktrough I was hoping, thanx a lot, the problem is I want them to also be part of the league, since they are playing for a price. But in a long season like the NFL once the top guys of the league start to separate from the rest, the “lower seeds” loose interest in the page, so if they can also be competing against his friends that would still keep them coming back and placing his predictions every week..
Woulndt this shortcode help? Shortcode [fp-scores]
it says it shows a collection of user id and matches..
It will not show totals or order the users by rank. It is just an overview of matches and the individual scores.
e.g.
| team A - team B | team C - team D | team A - team D |
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user X | 5 | 2 | 0 |
user Y | 2 | 2 | 0 |
user Z | 0 | 0 | 5 |
