I'm trying to learn PHP by myself with help from my brother who is still learning too and I wanted to know if people would be interested in a site that lets you guess the next (or future?) difficulty for bitcoin generation.
What i was thinking is
- A profile page to view your previous guesses
- A page to view who got the closest(the difficulty goes right to the decimal, so that be interesting)
- Guessing closes ~1 week before it changes
- Guess at for any point in time, still closes 1 week before(guess waaaaay early and still was closest of all? you're a prediction god)
- No BTC at stake, if you bet on the side, whatever, do that
- Winner gets: Pride
- a statistic page, has like page views, guesses, usercount, maybe browser stats(all this maybe)
What I'm looking to figure out on the server-side
- A crude way of loging in and setting a cookie
- sorting
- file writing and reading, sorting, etc, etc.
- user/password managing, figuring out how to use a salt and such and hashing them(I know nothing of security, so I will make that clear with giant text "USE A STUPID PASSWORD!!! I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING"
- Maybe a way to change your password(still trying to think how i'll do user number
- Database or SQL? ha, i'll figure that out some other time, for now TEXT FILE ALL THE THINGS
- Other do-dads
- no javascript, I don't know how to use JS...
- EDIT: Maybe Who's line is it anyways? "point bets"
"where the bets don't matter, that's right, the bets are as real as Joan River's face.
All you need is to make a username and pass. No address, no email, nothing. Patience too, this will be buggier than timon and pumbaa.
I
may host it on the server godaddy gave me for free with the domain purchase(it has ads that i can't remove) OR on this tiny little server I have here at home(no ads).
How's that sound for any idea?
