Everything's in the title...

I registered on the ladder, then I log in, I can see "my matches" (empty of course)...
I've read the help topics, visited every page, and I don't understand how to invite someone to play with me.

For sure I missed a very large button "Challenge a Player !"... if someone could tell me where it is...

I've read the help topics, visited every page, and I don't understand how to invite someone to play with me.

I'm sorry, but you have NOT visited (and completely read) every page. Because this would mean that you have also read the "help" page which explains it like this:

....
Rankings:
....
You will need the rankings page to challenge other players. This can be done by clicking the X beside their names. You will only be able to challenge the player, if:
........

Maybe this X should be exchanged with challange that would be more obvious even witout reading the help

I agree with esteel, I couldn't find the challenge button and I already knew its location.
Challenging is the most common function of the ladder, and it would be easier if it were more visible.

"X" is now "Challenge"

Hi,

I would just suggest a little thing for the ranking page to be more readable. I don't know how your pages are coded, but i think it shouldn't be very difficult.

Yeah those alternating row colors are a good idea.. and they should indeed be simple to code

as someone said on news once:

I agree too.

(yes, i'm making fun of you esteel )

yeah, good Idea

I gonna work on it later

Hmm i have no idea how you will do the thing but remeber that you can toggle between two values quite easily by subtracting the current value from the sum of the two..
Exampe: values 7 and 9 (sum = 16), current = 7..
current = 16 - current (7) = 9.. use 9 as color
current = 16 - current (9) = 7.. use 7 as color
current = 16 - current (7) = 9.. use 9 as color
and so on..

esteel wrote:Hmm i have no idea how you will do the thing but remeber that you can toggle between two values quite easily by subtracting the current value from the sum of the two..
Exampe: values 7 and 9 (sum = 16), current = 7..
current = 16 - current (7) = 9.. use 9 as color
current = 16 - current (9) = 7.. use 7 as color
current = 16 - current (7) = 9.. use 9 as color
and so on..

Inside a loop, this is as effective as it gets:

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if ($curcolor == "#444444") $curcolor = "#888888";
else $curcolor = "#444444";
print $curcolor;

edit:
Yeas, i'm a self-thaught, real-life coder. That means I make things that works, and is effective, not necessarily the way a school teacher would do it

Edit2:
of cource you can exchange the color codes with CSS classes, a single number or whatever differentiates the colors.

Well if it would work that way (not much php experience), this inside a loop

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$curcolor = "#bbbbbb" - $curcolor;
print $curcolor;

looks even simpler and i think it might be faster because there is no jump inside the code just a simple calculation And once you know the basic concept behind it its not much harder to understand then your version. But in case it is: Ever heared of job-security???

esteel wrote:Well if it would work that way (not much php experience), this inside a loop

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$curcolor = "#bbbbbb" - $curcolor;
print $curcolor;

looks even simpler and i think it might be faster because there is no jump inside the code just a simple calculation And once you know the basic concept behind it its not much harder to understand then your version. But in case it is: Ever heared of job-security???

First of all, my method works for any string, and this will most likely be a string, since the formatting is generally done with CSS.

Second, you are trying to subtract a combined string of letters (#) and hexadesimal numbers (0-9A-F) from an other simiilar string. That wont work to well.

To achieve what you are trying you would have to do somthing like this

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$basecolor = "FFFFFF";
$curcolor = "222222";
*loop* {
$curcolor = $basecolor - $curcolor; (adapt HEX substraction some way)
}


This also limits your choice of colors significantly.

Job-security is a good thing

Oh yeah, those were strings.. right, it does not work with them. I was thinking more in terms of other languages where you use numbers to identify colors.
But as long as you only want to toggle two numbers you are free to choose what numbers (as you just need the two numbers and the sum of both). Just check the example above. Or an other example: number1 = 22, number2 = 33, sum = number1+number2, current = 22, now this: current=sum-current; will toggle between 22 and 33. You can simply change those numbers it will still toggle (so it does not limit anything).
Well Green will surely find a way

esteel wrote:Oh yeah, those were strings.. right, it does not work with them. I was thinking more in terms of other languages where you use numbers to identify colors.
But as long as you only want to toggle two numbers you are free to choose what numbers (as you just need the two numbers and the sum of both). Just check the example above. Or an other example: number1 = 22, number2 = 33, sum = number1+number2, current = 22, now this: current=sum-current; will toggle between 22 and 33. You can simply change those numbers it will still toggle (so it does not limit anything).
Well Green will surely find a way

Yeayh.. they are strings You could do your loopcalc.thing, and assign the colors in and array keyed by the number, but that'd be kinda pointless. unless you are using more than 2 colors.
The most common way to I've seen this done is like this:

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$n = 0;
*loop* {
if ($n >= 2) $n = 0;
if ($n == 0) $color = $color1;
else $color = $color2;
$n++
}


No I'm not kidding.. you see stuff like that all the time.

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now new in main.css:

.dark {background-color:#000000}
.bright {background-color:#1F1F1F}

in rankings.php:

....
<tr class="<? echo ($i%2?"dark":"bright"); ?>">
....


The code actually works, I have always <tr class="dark"> and <tr class="bright"> that changes all the time, however the page looks not like the screenshot does, there are "gaps" between the coloring of the grey background ... why ? how where you doing it in html to look like that, obi_wan ?

GreEn`mArine wrote:

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now new in main.css:

.dark {background-color:#000000}
.bright {background-color:#1F1F1F}

in rankings.php:

....
<tr class="<? echo ($i%2?"dark":"bright"); ?>">
....


The code actually works, I have always <tr class="dark"> and <tr class="bright"> that changes all the time, however the page looks not like the screenshot does, there are "gaps" between the coloring of the grey background ... why ? how where you doing it in html to look like that, obi_wan ?

What browser do you use? Have you tried with other browsers? Have you set borer to 1px on td? that can make the border draw it self on top of the tr color.

edit:
I assume you use $i as your loopcount.. I always use foreach in php, so this would not work for me I never print html directly either, i return it, so adding echos is not an option. Nice solution though

however, the PHP code itself works fine. the generated html-code is exactly the way I wanted it

unfortunately setting the border attribute to "0" didn't help either.

Ah, I got it now:
cellpadding="2"
cellspacing="0"

Hard to theorize without a screenshot.

Rankings page is updated

yeah really great
thx

GreEn`mArine wrote:"X" is now "Challenge"

Good change, in many other contexts "X" is used to indicate deleting or closing something.