Midnight Modding

I am always paranoid that someone is going to press a button and the app do part of the updating and then something go wrong and screw everything up. In apps I have made it's pretty typical to need to insert rows into several tables and use those ids in other tables etc... Also, sometimes I have to have an update that affects hundreds of rows, in a way where if it were to stop in the middle it would be a real problem.

yeah, I am almost positive that I ran into issues is why it simply has those columns titled home team and away team. Maybe because of it being a number type of input. So I'll just have to see what I can figure out. I always wished I could have gotten that picking form to be much better, but I was working within some premade ip.suite elements. Same thing with brackets. I spent a ton of time getting picking teams in the bracket to work, then realized the issue where the ip.suite wizard I was using would not give an error if they left a pick blank. Honestly, for brackets, it may come down to me HAVVING to have a default pick on each game where they can't even possibly leave it unpicked. But just would suck because it's not good having either team as defaults where a member could complain that they didn't mean to pick that one, but didn't notice it.
One thing I need to add to this app at some point is member stats pages or top lifetime members as far as best at picking winners, etc... I have tons of stats being stored, just haven't made pages showing them.

yeah, I am almost positive that I ran into issues is why it simply has those columns titled home team and away team. Maybe because of it being a number type of input. So I'll just have to see what I can figure out. I always wished I could have gotten that picking form to be much better, but I was working within some premade ip.suite elements. Same thing with brackets. I spent a ton of time getting picking teams in the bracket to work, then realized the issue where the ip.suite wizard I was using would not give an error if they left a pick blank. Honestly, for brackets, it may come down to me HAVVING to have a default pick on each game where they can't even possibly leave it unpicked. But just would suck because it's not good having either team as defaults where a member could complain that they didn't mean to pick that one, but didn't notice it.
One thing I need to add to this app at some point is member stats pages or top lifetime members as far as best at picking winners, etc... I have tons of stats being stored, just haven't made pages showing them.

btw I think the other guy didn't like it even on the submit results form how theyw ere ordered. Not sure if many would care on that one. You sure it would be good to do it per pool, though? I guess that would be good in case some American sports are used, although it may still confuse people if they are used to it being flipped.

yeah, someone else had me change the order of them and I thought then I wish I had just added a feature to reverse them. I will add that in when I have time and look into the other.

ok they approved 1.1.4 now, for those who didn't notice. When I was testing I kept manually running the sitemapgenerator task and the  sitemap kept still not having the correct links, but it eventually did, so I guess it did it with a queue. Like I said, you have to have your guest group with permission to view the category and pool for it to get into the sitemap.

Hey, I noticed you purchased. 1.1.4 is the version with the fix, but I think if you start using it before they approve 1.1.4 it would just maybe have that sitemap issue and then when using 1.1.4 it will eventually get the sitemaps all corrected. This is the first time anyone has noticed a sitemap issue, though, so I assume it hasn't been noticeable on most sites over the years.

I went ahead and updated a new version where it has pools listed by category to have the sitemap issue hopefully fixed. In the app itself there is no link to those pages, but I guess for search engines it will have them and at some point I will add in some link to them in the app and add the link to the navigation bar.
edit: nice. actually the ip.suite system itself automatically put in the links in the navbar if you go to a pool's landing page.

yeah, back when I did a sports betting app for 3.x, it did decently ok, but not a huge number of customers. Also, I had never personally bet on anything, so I had it really simple where it didn't even have moneylines, exactly. It sort of had spreads or just flat out picks where all were the same. Of course, SINCE then I did do sports betting for real and I won a lot and then I lost a huge chunk back on stupid bets where I was betting thousands I finally had to try to quit where I don't lose all my profits back! It's been so rough quitting too and I keep being tempted to bet. So I WOULD update my own old sports betting app, but it may then tempt me to do real bets again. lol.
And this app really hasn't sold much, but I am still glad I made it because I would like using it myself. I am hoping long term I can get better at design, get brackets finished (they ARE finished as far as functionality, just the buggy form and never got a good looking bracket to display them), and maybe someone will think of some other cool ideas for features that won't clutter the app too much. I like how this app allows to break it down into weeks, days, groups, whatever, or just have them all as one set of picks without being broken up. Also fixing accidental mistakes and using tie breakers are pretty nifty. I like making apps that have some sort of fun to them. I made a tournaments app, sports betting app, reviews app, point system, and then this one is the only one for 4.x, though.
Also, yeah I talked to thejackal privately in the past. I was also annoyed that he made those apps since I had made 3.x versions! But people were wanting them for 4.x and I was too slow getting to them because of annoying health issues. He told me why he was leaving, but I forget now. He didn't like something related to marketplace or some policy or something, but I forget exactly.
Well, I updated my own tournaments app privately fore someone. If it happens to be more how you want it, I could update the public version. I just figured nobody would want it, given that a tournaments app is already out. It had a brackets feature, but I don't know if it would be what you want or not. That bracket feature is more member vs member foe video games, whereas the one I am finishing up in this app is more for PREDICTINFG real life bracket results.
I wish I could ever get a forum site active myself because I badly want to use some cool apps myself, but it's just me there anymore. lol.
Also, I was GOING TO make a fantasy sports app, but it would probably not be ideal to release one because you pretty much would have to either pay a stats provider to send out stats updates or you'd have to manually be entering hundreds of players' stats each day. lol. Plus I'd have to figure out how to do a fancy draft, ie learn new programming languages. I mays till make one, though, because I've done fantasy sports for 20+ years and would love to make my own site of it.
Anyway, if you have any ideas for other apps it's possible I'd want to make some other apps. I don't know if you were around a long time ago for 2.x, but back then this guy mike made a casino app and it was so fun! It had a slot machine similar to the wheel of fortune ones and it had keno and a lot of fun games to play and then see which members did the best on them. I begged him over and over to update it and it never got updated even for 3x, let alone 4.x.

I basically finished the bracket part, except 2 issues were 1. a bug in the type of form/setup I was using and nobody would ever answer me about it on the various dev forums and 2. I couldn't ever get the bracket to look like a bracket because I'm not good at design. We have a long time before the next ncaa tournament, though. As far as conference tournaments, I'm not sure because of how they are all so different, with different numbers of teams having byes, etc... I have this one where play in games can be used so technically the code is there to allow for byes, but I guess I'd have to just get it working with different numbers of teams.
In a past sports app I made, I basically had to just specifically put in different playoff types, such as nhl playoffs, nba playoffs, etc... because of the different rules. In nhl and nfl they reorder teams after the first round, so some of these are too tricky to have it work automatically, without just hardcoding in different examples.
As far as the history, for a long time nobody was seeming to need it updated and I was wanting to test it live, but was on shared hosting since I haven't really done as much programming for a while. So didn't have php 8 and also had more health issues. Usually, my apps have barely anything needing to change to work on the latest ip.suite versions, though. What slowed this up back for 4.5/4.6 was me trying to get the brackets in. I should have just released it first without them for those versions. I'm mainly just wanting to get them done far ahead of the next ncaa tournament.
The app definitely functions very well and has a lot of stats (some stored ones I don't use at this point).

I submitted a new version of this. I forgot to mention in the changelog that I also took category permissions into effect for latest poll widgets and other pages where it was showing them regardless of those settings.
Once it is downloadable and you install the new version, you will need to edit your categories because I changed a permission and added a new permission in it.
I had mostly finished brackets, but still some hiccups, so took most of the code for it back out and will have to add those some other time.
There are some new features, such as ability to let members predict which team will win a pickem and which scorer will be the top scorer. These are all custom features someone had me add in, which were allowed to be in the download here. Another feature is ability to let members predict exact scores instead of only the winner of a game.
If you do not want to use those new features then you might as well turn advanced tiebreakers off because that pretty much just uses those new features to break ties at the end of the pickems.

Probably going to do a tournament/bracket format choice.

No demo yet. Kickoff is hardcoded because someone funded the app being made so I made it how he needed first. Plus, typically people don't do pickems for other sports except maybe for playoffs, but I will probably do something to make it be able to sue other wording.
I was already going to make a points system of my own and integrate it with that and yes probably integrate it with existing ones, would just have to see where they are storing the point totals.
I somehow missed these posts being here until now. Also, I was actually meaning to raise the price back up. I may temporarily leave it down, but eventually it is going back up because other pickem apps have seemingly always been around $50.
Btw, I am still strongly considering putting in a bracket pickem type for things such as the ncaa basketball tournament. Just feels like I am getting it too close to how my betting app already was in the past, but many do consider brackets to be pickems, so it would fit for this type of app.

Finally getting this submitted any day now hopefully. So hopefully someone is still left who wants it. I went through all kinds of things, had to get php8 eventually, and on and on.

I have this basically done for 4.7 except I didn't test with php 8 yet and having a situation to even be able to use php 8 (long story).
edit: as I test this and use it for the first time in a while, this is a nifty system if I do say so myself. lol. You can set it to use weeks but just call them something else such as stages of the world cup, for instance, to split up the games. Also someone had me add in some features I forgot about since it's been so long... Options to allow predicting exact scores, tournament winner, top scorer in tournament, etc...

Pickems X is an app which allows members to predict who will win sports games.
You can break a pickem down into weeks, with games for each week, or you can disable weeks and keep adding games to the contest overall. The member with the most correct picks wins the contest.
Some other features currently included: optional tiebreaker when determining the winner, allow members to predict ties/draws, set the system to use either the word tie or draw, enter a result of canceled for its result to not count one way or the other, reminder notifications sent close to the start of each week/contest, and more.
I have the system prepared for some future features, as well, such as allowing for more than 1 point for some games and career stats, which I didn't have time to get in yet.
 

Hey, sorry I didn't notice you posted in here. I have had this working on 4.6 for ages and so far I don't see anything that would stop it from working on 4.7, but I hadn't uploaded it here still because 1. I had put in some code for brackets and run into bugs with the IPS software and 2. I haven't made 100% sure on 4.7 yet.
I am just going to take some of the brackets code out and not have the feature active where I can upload it, but I totally messed up by not doing it before (U.S.) football games started!
In the future, if someone really needs this updated or ahs feature requests, etc... I will notice right off if someone sends me a PM. This topic went so long with nobody posting, I just thought nobody was needing it soon.

If anyone needs this soon I could just submit it without finishing brackets first... I just figured it would be better to finish it, but I have the rest finished and took out some brackets code where it won't have it active yet.

Great app, great coder! @Midnight Modding

Well, I think I finished everything, depending on whether or not I can put this one feature in (haven't been paid for it, so may need to release it without that for now...)

lol I didn't realize they are already talking about 4.6 Don't worry, wont be a long wait that time. Not any activity in here other than me talking to myself, so not sure who wants it, anyway, but I still like getting things updated regardless and plus I am a big sports fan so always wanting to improve for myself as well.
edit: that quickly I made sure I didn't need to do any changes in this or my private apps from their part 1 of 4.6 changes. So done there...

So far I haven't had to do hardly anything and I think am almost done. I should have updated it sooner if I knew there was this little to do. lol. A lot of the 4.5 changes are optional ones that can maybe help in some areas, but not a lot required to have it working fine.
I mainly need to decide whether to submit it before finishing brackets. I may submit it without them finished first and then update them within the next few weeks.

it's really the same issue as when I first update to 4.x, my shoulder and neck probs so keep taking breaks. I think I will try to get it submitted for approval here within the next maybe 10 days and just finish the brackets feature some other time.

Maybe I should just get it ready with the features it already had, to get it working with 4.5 sooner, then, since you don't need the upcoming features anyway. I already put most of the code in, so I will just have to comment some out and then the changes for 4.5 should be very minor in this app, so I will try to get it ready and approved very soon, (I am not sure how quickly IPS has been able to approve them lately, so I can't say for sure the date it will be on here, but it won't take many days from now for me to get it ready, at least. I mostly just took 2020 off after sporting events kept being postponed. lol).

it sucks for me because I like march madness and the virus ruined that andddd the enw features are all related to that basically.