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I'm not sure if this is the right forum to post this in, so move if needed.
I've been running an EQ guild website on XOOPS now for 8 or so years and just recently in the past 6 months or so have upgraded to 2.3.3. As a guild we use a point system for bidding on loot in guild raids and keeping track of who is on, and when, etc. is a big part of this.
I would like to write a module to help keep track of all this and should be able to handle all the logic and display stuff in php as well as the database stuff in MySQL (I have a bit of experience with php/mysql, but am by no means an expert). When trying to get it into an XOOPS module format, and tying it into existing XOOPS membership data and dealing with XOOPS variables I'm at a bit of a loss. Is there any basic beginner documentation on getting started with this?
the basic idea I have is:
I would like to have a 'guild member' table that ties into the XOOPS membership table that holds data such as main in game character, available raid points, alternate character info etc. It would have a record for each character, with a 'flag' for main or alt that is only modifiable via administrator access after creation. Regular site members would have the ability to add new 'characters' to their profile only, and after that not really be able to modify anything.
There would also be another table for attendance records that would generate most of the statistics that would be viewable by the membership base and would be where point totals and attendance data come from for the main membership table. I haven't worked all the details out about that, but have some ideas. Most of the logic etc. would use this table, and I'm ok with all of that and the parsing of data files to populate it. Most of the direct access to this table would be through an administrative section of the module.
So mainly, I'm looking for info on how I would go about creating a module, and what I would need to tie into the main membership table of xoops, and how all that works.
Any direction would be VERY much appreciated.
