For the last.. 6 months or so i've been working on a website for the LFS community to use, the idea behind it is that it can help with the running of you race series, getting rid of some of the time consuming aspects and let the website effectively do all the hard work, mainly the pulling of the results from MPR files rather than manual input, and the calculation of the points for that round based on a point system assigned to that particular round. The driver and team standings are then compiled and available for all to see.
The Baby-R series is my little test dummy, with the permission of the ZWR folk who've known about this for a good few months now.
Theres still quite a few things im working on, there is currently 1 series running on the site (UFOC), which has 2 active seasons the forthcoming 'Baby-R "Fall-Out" Cup' & the currently in progress 'Baby-R Pre-season' which i've thrown in to use to test a few things before we start properly. It includes last week, yesterday, and next Thursdays results (when available :razz
and the points calculations for the 5 people currently signed up for the series from those results.
Can everyone make sure that they are registered on the website, and signed up to the Baby-R "Fall-Out" Cup (you can register to the pre-season too), this is a requirement for the series not optional.
When registering, you'll be asked to enter very basic details the site needs to function properly, If your already registered on our forum (ex-mercury forum, now 'lfshosting forum' same db) then you can use those details and log in straight away. So if you register and it says you cant use that username/email then thats almost certainly because you already have an account from way back and should be able to use that.
Once you've registered and logged in, you might be asked for a couple of details so the site functions properly for ya, these being Firstname and Surname, LFS registered name, and then Team name and Team Tag are both optional. This will only appear to those already registered via the LFS Hosting forum, these are details we dont already have from you basically. From there you can check out any active series, and sign yourself up for them. You'll be asked to provide 3 details:
Number: This is your car/race number, 0-999 is available, any already taken are automatically removed, so typically help yourself to whatever takes your fancy, however please stick to the number assigned to you for this series.
Team Name: Just as it sounds, The team name you wish to appear as in this series (ie 'Double Dutch''Mercury Old Gits'), theres a little more to it, but i'll come back to that.
Team Tag: Same as above.
With these team values, they're currently NOT displayed on the site, these are visable for the series admin, they will create a team grouping of that name, and put you in that group. It doesnt matter if one person puts 'ZWR' and another puts 'Zwarte Racing' because the admin will just create a team group and you'll both be assigned to that group. If your racing under a different name to your proper teams name, make sure you enter then name you wish to appear as in this series.
Once people start signing up then we can start creating the Constructor/Team Groups together and assigning the correct drivers to those groups. The website then totals up all points by people in that group and thats your Constructor points calculated.
Feel free to have a wander round the site, some features arent working, if you get a dead link just ignore it for now, if something doesnt appear to be working correctly (db error messages etc) then feel free to PM me or similar and let me know, but bare in mind its a site very much under construction between 5pm & 3am most days so if things start erroring that were fine moments ago, you've just busted me, im crap at coding
Website Link: http://www.lfsevents.net
The Baby-R series is my little test dummy, with the permission of the ZWR folk who've known about this for a good few months now.
Theres still quite a few things im working on, there is currently 1 series running on the site (UFOC), which has 2 active seasons the forthcoming 'Baby-R "Fall-Out" Cup' & the currently in progress 'Baby-R Pre-season' which i've thrown in to use to test a few things before we start properly. It includes last week, yesterday, and next Thursdays results (when available :razz
and the points calculations for the 5 people currently signed up for the series from those results.Can everyone make sure that they are registered on the website, and signed up to the Baby-R "Fall-Out" Cup (you can register to the pre-season too), this is a requirement for the series not optional.
When registering, you'll be asked to enter very basic details the site needs to function properly, If your already registered on our forum (ex-mercury forum, now 'lfshosting forum' same db) then you can use those details and log in straight away. So if you register and it says you cant use that username/email then thats almost certainly because you already have an account from way back and should be able to use that.
Once you've registered and logged in, you might be asked for a couple of details so the site functions properly for ya, these being Firstname and Surname, LFS registered name, and then Team name and Team Tag are both optional. This will only appear to those already registered via the LFS Hosting forum, these are details we dont already have from you basically. From there you can check out any active series, and sign yourself up for them. You'll be asked to provide 3 details:
Number: This is your car/race number, 0-999 is available, any already taken are automatically removed, so typically help yourself to whatever takes your fancy, however please stick to the number assigned to you for this series.
Team Name: Just as it sounds, The team name you wish to appear as in this series (ie 'Double Dutch''Mercury Old Gits'), theres a little more to it, but i'll come back to that.
Team Tag: Same as above.
With these team values, they're currently NOT displayed on the site, these are visable for the series admin, they will create a team grouping of that name, and put you in that group. It doesnt matter if one person puts 'ZWR' and another puts 'Zwarte Racing' because the admin will just create a team group and you'll both be assigned to that group. If your racing under a different name to your proper teams name, make sure you enter then name you wish to appear as in this series.
Once people start signing up then we can start creating the Constructor/Team Groups together and assigning the correct drivers to those groups. The website then totals up all points by people in that group and thats your Constructor points calculated.
Feel free to have a wander round the site, some features arent working, if you get a dead link just ignore it for now, if something doesnt appear to be working correctly (db error messages etc) then feel free to PM me or similar and let me know, but bare in mind its a site very much under construction between 5pm & 3am most days so if things start erroring that were fine moments ago, you've just busted me, im crap at coding
Website Link: http://www.lfsevents.net
