Jarrek Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 Can the folks who were maintaining the Canadian Soccer Players part of our website give me a shout? I'd like to get that up and running again now that we have lots of extra space. Marc, I believe that you were one of these people? Ray ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 quote:Originally posted by Jarrek Can the folks who were maintaining the Canadian Soccer Players part of our website give me a shout? I'd like to get that up and running again now that we have lots of extra space. Marc, I believe that you were one of these people? Ray ? Oh yeah, sorry, I got your email...I've jsut been busy and it kinda filtered down the pile accidentally. WF / Ray did most of the tracking, I just did the manual updating pretty much. We could get it going again but if GL and friends are going to do the same in the forums, should we just link to the last page of the Cdn Abroad forum discussion? I don't really have a preference, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 I was maintaining the list of official caps. I also helped out here and there with Marc's "notable" Canadian squads section. I would be glad to continue in this role if you think official cap-tying of players is still important since the rules changed. I can also help with other info gathering if required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 quote:Originally posted by ray I was maintaining the list of official caps. I also helped out here and there with Marc's "notable" Canadian squads section. I would be glad to continue in this role if you think official cap-tying of players is still important since the rules changed. I can also help with other info gathering if required. Ray, I still have the caps info you sent me ages and ages and ages ago. My apologies for not putting it up, but the site was being re-organized so I say no point in updating at the time. What are our capabilities for a player database? If we could get a DB going for players it would be easy to 'query' caps stats and who is playing abroad as opposed to home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 To continue, I was thinking something very basic. Forget the full profiles for now, I’m envisioning something along these lines Name – Position – Club – date of birth – city born – hometown – second nationality – caps …and any other info that could be useful. In regards to the squads info, if we had columns for each significant squad, it could be as simple as a checkbox or querying based on a yes/no sort of thing. I’m thinking just kind of basic line info on players, more of a database to be used for different queries or whatever, potentially to be expanded later if need be for full profiles or whatever use. Is this doable/possible/useful? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 Hi Marc. I do think it would be useful to maintain a Canadian player database. The basic data fields you mention are a good place to start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 quote:Originally posted by ray Hi Marc. I do think it would be useful to maintain a Canadian player database. The basic data fields you mention are a good place to start. Glad you agree. It'll take a bit of work to setup, but it's faster than doing a DB of full profiles, that's for sure. It'll be easier to update, and it doesn't take long to input new players, and in no time we'd have a the most comprehensive Cdn player database on the Net, as opposed to just static lists of caps and players abroad. With a DB like that we could query lists for Cdn Abroad, Cdn playing domestically, Caps, Cdns playing for other nations, tournament squads...what else? Any other ideas? Any other ideas plase fire away... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJT Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 Are you guys talking about setting up this database online, with users able to run those queries? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarrek Posted February 3, 2005 Author Share Posted February 3, 2005 If the database were to reside on this server, it would have to be ASP or ASP.NET based. If you guys are willing to write the code, that would be great. The code would also have to pass some basic security tests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 Yeah...I don't know code so there goes that. Even if we coudl it would be time consuming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 I don't know anything about ASP but am willing to give it a look and see if there is anything I can do. I am more familiar with Java and will also try something with that. I'll let you know. If it doesn't work out I still think we could have a static page for a while until we develop some coding expertise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 I can report considerable progress toward an ASP/MS Access solution that would allow simple "canned" queries such as a player's surname, birth year or the country of his club. Marc, I will send you an e-mail with my database and you can let me know what you think of the data fields (useful or not). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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