Key Features and Benefits for you
- Works for the first five rounds of the season before needing to be registered (and paid for!). You can try before you buy.
- Enables you to produce files and web pages that you can place either on an intranet or the Internet, allowing you to run your competition on a website.
- Simple to use 'point and click' interface for transferring data to and from the competition web pages.
- Tippers can join your competition online (if you choose).
- Tippers can see how they are doing and enter their tips online with the help of team histories, game histories and the league ladder.
- Off-site tippers without access to the Web can still use the free email add-on to send their tips to the Organiser if you choose.
- Web server can be either Unix/Linux or Windows.
- You can also display your banner and choice of background image on the pages. See below for more technical stuff.
- If you'd like to run your competition on the net, but don't have an appropriate web site, then we can host it for you.
- If your company would like to use the web edition as a marketing tool to customers and even staff, Footy Tipping Software can customise the look of the program for you.
- You have the choice of a number of different styles for the web pages.
- Preview how the web edition will look and act.
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If you already have the desktop edition and wish to upgrade to the web edition then you can download here.
More
information on how the web edition works
The
web edition consists of three components.
The first is the regular desktop edition.
The second is an additional program (the Web Interface) which is
installed into the same folder as the desktop program.
The third is a set of scripts (you can think of them as the web
pages) that are installed on your web server.
When tipper joins or enters their tips using the web pages, the information is stored in files on the website. When a round is closed then the file(s) containing the tips and any new tippers are downloaded and imported to the desktop program at the click of a button using the web interface. After the scores are entered into the regular program on a Monday morning and the latest results calculated, the latest scores etc are uploaded to your web site using the web interface so that your tippers can see how they are doing.
The web interface program also allows you to configure the appearence and options available on the web pages, as well as allowing you to upload your own banner for display on the pages.
Technical
information on how the web edition works
The web interface
is a point-and-click interface that communicates with the scripts
on your web site using HTTP - this is for ease of configuration
and use. There is no need for any other program (such as an FTP
program) to exchange information between the regular PC program
and the web pages - if you can browse to the web site, then the
web interface can exchange information with it.
In order for the Internet or intranet pages to work on most servers we have written CGI scripts. Therefore your Internet or intranet pages must support PERL, one of the most commonly used CGI languages. PERL is available for download from the Internet at no charge and is free to use. You might need to check with your ISP or network administrator to find out if your server supports PERL.
For more information regarding running PERL on Windows visit www.activestate.com. (we suggest downloading ActivePerl version 5.8 or later). For more info on PERL for UNIX (and other operating ystems) visit http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html.
