CAN Conquer CANcer initiative..Coding Help needed

We have started an initiative titled “CAN Conquer CANcer” aimed at spreading a message to dispel the myths surrounding the disease and help create awareness. In light of the fact that the Internet is one of the fastest and effective ways to spread the message to a larger audience, we have hosted a Contest for Bloggers titled “CAN Conquer CANcer Blog a Thot Contest” as part of the initiative . It’s probably the 1st time in Blogsphere history that a contest is done on this scale with so much involvement from people from around the globe.

Here’s the link to the Contest. http://connexionsonline.biz/conxw/ican/

While most of the regular coding is complete, I'm stuck with the coding for the Judges' ratings. I've mentioned below the Flowchart of the requirement. As I'm currently involved in the off-line events of the initiative, I request anyone to help me out with the coding..

Tables
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TABLE `bloggers`
'bID` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment
`bdate` date NOT NULL default '0000-00-00',
`bname` varchar(100) NOT NULL default ''(Blogger)
`btitle` varchar(200) NOT NULL default ''(Title of Blog)
`bposttitle` varchar(200) NOT NULL default '',(Title of the related contest entry)
`burl` varchar(200) NOT NULL default '',
PRIMARY KEY (`bID`),

TABLE `judges` (
`juryID` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`juryname` varchar(100) NOT NULL default '',
`username` varchar(25) NOT NULL default '',
`password` varchar(25) NOT NULL default '',
PRIMARY KEY (`juryID`),

TABLE `rating` (
`bID` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`juryID` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
'original'int(11) NOT NULL default '0',(originality)
'flair'int(11) NOT NULL default '0',(flair and style)
'motivation'int(11) NOT NULL default '0',(motivational content)
'linked'int(11) NOT NULL default '0',(link to contest)
`ratingtotal` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`comments` blob


FlowChart
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A judge using his/her credential log in and is taken to a page where Blogs that haven't been Rated (by him/her only) are displayed. Other judges ratings are not visible. Can be grouped on the date of posting.

The Blogger name, Title of the Post (linked to actual post) and the Ratings dropdowns (?) are displayed. Ratings are on a scale of 1 to 5.

The judges are required to rate on Originality, Flair/Style of Content, Motivational/ Informational strength and the visibity of banner link in the contestant Blog.

The total of all these sub-ratings are stored in the 'ratingstotal' column.

Once the rating is done for a partcular contest entry, that entry does not appear again in the list.

The judges may also be shown a page where the ratings they have completed are listed. Ratings done by her/him are only visible.

The average of all the Judges' 'ratingstotal' for a partcilcular Blog is calculated and is displayed on another page accessible only to the moderator, (that's me). This average is the final score for that partcular Blog Entry for the contest.

Any support / help in this would be heartily appreciated.

Thanks a Mil..

Thread moved from 'PHP Coding' to 'General Chat' by nawlej.

Reason:

I agree this doesn't belong in PHP Coding, no code is supplied. By saying 'help me with the coding', what you mean is 'tell me how to do it'. That's not the type of help that is typically given.

You must have had confidence when you took this on that you had the prowess to complete it. Use that prowess, ask specific questions you have but come with a 'help me do it' approach, not a 'do it for me' approach.

Let me just add, writing code is the least part of programming. Deciding what to write is ultimately where the skill lies. I just mean that I get the impression you want someone to tell you what to code. It's like copying the homework from a friend, it defeats the object.

I'm sorry if my request has been misunderstood. I never took a "Do it for me" approach. I quote "As I'm currently involved in the off-line events of the initiative, I request anyone to help me out with the coding.."

I've already done the coding on the site for the registration and display of the entries in the Contest. Like I'd said earlier, I'm totally confused about the Judges authentication procedure and how to display the Entries for the judges to rate.

I could've put in some code, but I'm a graphics designer and not a coder. Whatever coding I do is through DreamWeaver and from what I see in the Forums, DW code is considered sorta sub-standard here. I was hoping someone would "Help" me out at least pointing me in the right direction with a few tips.

Another reason I asked for Help here is b'cos the initiative is for a noble cause.I was hoping that someone would get involved in the initiative and contribute. If it were for a commercial website, believe me, I would have not asked for exhaustive help from the Forum.

I posted my request quite a while back and when I realised that Help was not coming from the Forum, I asked the students of my Alma Mater to check it out. In spite of their exams around the corner, the students have eagerly got onto the job and the pages should be up by Monday evening.

I understand that CodeWalkers is an excellent Forum that has helped me out in several occasion when I was stuck with some doubts. This time, I was stuck from the beginning and so did not put up any code.

I've just expressed my sentiments here and I asuure anyone reading it that there are absolutely no hard feelings whatsover...

but you also have to rember CW is full of full time programers, so ya need ta throw is something to work with...





says the guy who dumps complte code strutures on total nubies....