How to create a fantasy baseball site

sup2jzgte

sup2jzgte

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Does anyone know what it would take to create my own fantasy baseball site? I have been playing fantasy baseball for quite a few years now and I play at several different sites, but none of them are EXACTLY as I would like. On one of the sites I pay $300 a season, but there is a few things I would really like to change. So I started thinking about how to go about creating my own site, but I'm not sure how its done. So does anyone have any info on this?

I have tried to whole Yahoo thing, but I cant stand they way it works.
 
Also you may want to make it more autmated, so you don't have to keep updating everything, in that case you will need a programming language, I';d reccomend PHP + a MySQL database to store user info in
 
Since I have no clue how to program, because I have never tried it really I I'm going to have to start some reading on programming. The other option is to employ someone to do it.

Where is a good place to start my research? What some good titles to start with?

Basically I want something similar to this site,
http://10703116706.baseball.sportsline.com/
baseball-1.jpg
 
That's some more than advanced PHP script with MYSQL database scripting... I'm not even sure if I could do that :S....

You can look a the source to have an idea of the code by right cliking on the page and "view source".

If you don't know how to script PHP, I would recommand either learning (might take a few years to be that good :D) or employ somebody...

Webbenji
 
I'd say it would be worth learning bits of PHP + MySQL, once you get the basics it generally isn't too difficult to expand, admittedly it wouldn't be the easiest of projects, but most of it would probably be done using quite complex SQL queries, so at least you wouldn't have that much really difficult code in there.
 
lee101 said:
Hmm, personally I learn best through tutorials (http://w3schools.com/php/default.asp) and http://php.net/ function reference, although if books are best for you then that may be best, before buying you may want to look at some reviews, the for dummies one doesn't look too bad, you might want to take a look at this http://www.amazon.com/PHP-5-Dummies...0592328-3982223?ie=UTF8&qid=1179329779&sr=8-1 aswell.
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Books are the best way to learn, but you'll need advanced PHP+MYSQL knowledge for that :)
 
webbenji said:
Books are the best way to learn
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I'm not going to turn this into an argument, but it is all down to personal preference, personally i hate them, I've got a VB book and never touched it, but still can do basic things with it, and never considered buying one for PHP, and have taught myself using the internet not too badly so far.
 
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