I've done this competition form, but

But if you look in the source you can work out the answers.

I guess the only way I can make it secure is to make it a php one?

Is there an “easy” way to do this?

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But if you look in the source you can work out the answers.

I guess the only way I can make it secure is to make it a php one?

Is there an “easy” way to do this?

Oh and the link!: http://pgt7.com/spin/

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I guess the only way I can make it secure is to make it a php one?

Why worry - if GMTV can give away £25K to someone who tells them what colour Rudolph’s nose is then I can’t see what it matters with yours.

Is the object of the exercise not just to collect email addresses?

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If you want to hide the correct answers, you will need to make the
scoring happen on the server, not in the browser (with JavaScript) as
you have it.

That’s going to mean PHP or Ruby or Perl on the server.

What system are you using now to collect the input data?

Walter

On Dec 23, 2009, at 6:21 AM, Peter Tucker wrote:

on 23/12/2009 11:20, Peter Tucker at email@hidden wrote:

But if you look in the source you can work out the answers.

I guess the only way I can make it secure is to make it a php one?

Is there an “easy” way to do this?

Oh and the link!: http://pgt7.com/spin/

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Hi David,

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I guess the only way I can make it secure is to make it a php one?

Why worry

  • if GMTV can give away £25K to someone who tells them what colour Rudolph’s
    nose is then I can’t see what it matters with yours.

Presumably blue with cold.

Is the object of the exercise not just to collect email
addresses?

David

The idea is to drive people to the site so they are aware of up coming gigs.
So we keep the club well attended ;~}}

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If you want to hide the correct answers, you will need to make the
scoring happen on the server, not in the browser (with JavaScript) as
you have it.

That’s going to mean PHP or Ruby or Perl on the server.

What system are you using now to collect the input data?

Just a manual system for now.

Did you have something to suggest?

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The idea is to drive people to the site so they are aware of up coming gigs. So we keep the club well attended ;~}}

Absolutely - and presumably you will emailshot all these competition entrants with subsequent gig info.

But the theory is that the easier the competition then the more entries you will get (and the greater number of contact details) - so why go to the hassle of making things more complicated than necessary.

That would be my argument!

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on 23/12/2009 19:50, Walter Lee Davis at email@hidden wrote:

That’s going to mean PHP or Ruby or Perl on the server.

What system are you using now to collect the input data?

Just a manual system for now.

Did you have something to suggest?

What about a PHP framework like MAR or CodeIgniter?

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on 23/12/2009 23:32, DeltaDave at email@hidden wrote:

The idea is to drive people to the site so they are aware of up coming gigs.
So we keep the club well attended ;~}}

Absolutely - and presumably you will emailshot all these competition entrants
with subsequent gig info.

I’d never thought of that ;~}

But the theory is that the easier the competition then the more entries you
will get (and the greater number of contact details) - so why go to the hassle
of making things more complicated than necessary.

Good point, it’s not to show how clever you might be, but more punters ;~}}

That would be my argument!

Merry Christmas - David (V snowy up here!)

And to you and all the other extremely helpful friends on the list too,
thanks ;~}}

BTW where be “up here”?

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On Dec 23, 2009, at 5:20 PM, Peter Tucker wrote:

on 23/12/2009 19:50, Walter Lee Davis at email@hidden wrote:

That’s going to mean PHP or Ruby or Perl on the server.

What system are you using now to collect the input data?

Just a manual system for now.

Did you have something to suggest?

What about a PHP framework like MAR or CodeIgniter?

Hi Todd,

Thanks for that, CodeIgniter looks interesting, some serious reading and
learning to get of the blocks.

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I don’t know if MAR will be any easier to grasp than CI but the upshot
is Walter took over development of it (MAR) from the original dev some
time ago. I’ve built a couple db using it. Very handy framework. I’ve
taken an interest in CI but don’t know enough about it yet to be of
any real assistance but from what I do know it is a very nice
framework indeed.

Todd

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Thanks for that, CodeIgniter looks interesting, some serious reading
and
learning to get of the blocks.


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Get a copy of MAR from Walter’s github, <http://wiki.github.com/walterdavis/myactiverecord

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I don’t know if MAR will be any easier to grasp than CI but the upshot
is Walter took over development of it (MAR) from the original dev some
time ago. I’ve built a couple db using it. Very handy framework. I’ve
taken an interest in CI but don’t know enough about it yet to be of
any real assistance but from what I do know it is a very nice
framework indeed.

Te documentation looks well thought out and clear, with what looks like a
lot of resources.

I’ll also have a look a MAR, thanks again.

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More to the point, look at the Wiki on my Github, there’s a one-page
example there that shows how to make a database connection with a form
handler in one very short page of script.

Walter

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Get a copy of MAR from Walter’s github, <http://wiki.github.com/walterdavis/myactiverecord

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BTW where be “up here”?

Up here is snowy, cold Glasgow

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