Leagueman

Assume you have a community site with a large user base. Dont you or your users want to know, which is the most popular team? Which team has got most of the fans?

You can see the result of such a simple fan counter in the popular teams module on this site. You can also see the count of fans on the history tab of the teaminfo page.
Now I am looking for a place where a user can select his favourite team. Whether or not he can select for every project? Or only once he can select his favourite club?

I like the way this bot dress up any site with its little cool calendar date page items. Thats why bot_caldate will be preinstalled in Leagueman 1.0, but deactivated.

We want to keep an eye on the career of a player, in best case from his first season.
So we need his name and other infos like date of birth, a picture, a description etc. And we need information about his memberships, when he was part of which club or team, some statistics like count of goals, cards etc.
For some interactivity, a players profile must have a feedback area. People want to discuss a players performance or just want to say: Hey, I m a fan of you! :-)
This is now possible in Leaguemans player info page. Just create a jBulletin category ("Guestbook" for instance) and connect it with the player info page. Done!

What needs to be discussed?
Leagueman has a few jBulletin-Connectors which enables you to discuss a whole round or matchday for instance. Now it is possible to discuss every single match if you want. A jBulletins category could also be used as a teams or a players guestbook or feedback area linked to their teaminfo or playerinfo pages.
The problem is, that you can also use the discussion link in content items. So where to link back from the forum? To the article? Or to the roundinfo page, for instance? That maybe needs to be made as flexible as possible, but not confusing.
The masses will know the answer.

In Leagueman you can define a com_jbulletin forum category foreach project.
There is a comments-link on the roundinfo page, which is a link to the assigned forum. Maybe you also want to create a link to the forum in your main menu. Due to Joomlas Itemid system you defined already a menu item pointing to your forum. With another menu item you point to your forum category with a different Itemid. Maybe you dont want that.
The solution is to create a new leagueman function, which creates the link with the proper Itemid for you. Read more for the code...

This is a demonstration of how Leagueman is capable to display results within content items using content plugins. It is possible to create these articles automatically via Leaguemans round manager. Just tell your project which content section/category to use. Of course you can place your article on your front page too, no problem :-)

With a new itemid param you can link to the correct menu item. Eg your roundinfo page is Itemid = 7, your article on Frontpage = Itemid = 1, you can tell the plugin the Itemid = 7 to link to your roundinfo or teaminfo page. Have a look at the PDF Page to see how the plugin works.

Friday, 10.08.2007
20:30	VfB Stuttgart	-	FC Schalke 04	2:2  (0:1)
Saturday, 11.08.2007
15:30	FC Bayern München	-	Hansa Rostock	3:0  (1:0)
15:30	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	-	FC Energie Cottbus	0:0  (0:0)
15:30	VfL Bochum	-	Werder Bremen	2:2  (0:2)
15:30	Hannover 96	-	Hamburger SV	0:1  (0:1)
15:30	Eintracht Frankfurt	-	Hertha BSC	1:0  (1:0)
15:30	VfL Wolfsburg	-	Arminia Bielefeld	1:3  (0:1)
Sunday, 12.08.2007
17:00	1.FC Nürnberg	-	Karlsruher SC	0:2  (0:1)
17:00	Borussia Dortmund	-	MSV Duisburg	1:3  (0:1)
total goals: 23 (2.56 per match)

Since 2003 I live in Hannover, Germany.
AS you might know, I m the administrator of my former sports club's website www.lindowersv.de

Lindow is situated in north of Berlin, the german capital, 300 km away from Hannover.
I havent seen a match for years. Nevertheless I manage results of a few leagues on the website. Some results I have to look up at a german football site, some results I get via mailing list.

I thought, a mailing list for Leagueman would be cool.

Leagueman can serve this quite easy. I will show you the workflow:

Today a new version of Joomleague has been released. com_joomleague is another leaguemanager for Joomla based on my former component com_lgmngr. Honestly, I m pretty impressed, although I didnt install the component yet. I had a look at the demosite, just clicking around. Well done job.

Both, com_joomleague and com_leagueman are licensed under the terms of GNU/GPL now. I think, there will be no join between both components, you can install com_joomleague and all the modules via Joomla's installer, Leagueman is a stand alone script including com_leagueman and a couple of components and modules, the author feels positive providing a complete solution.

There will be no com_leagueman component for Joomla, the author will support here.
Leagueman is still a one man show, so things will last a bit longer maybe. If anyone is willing to help, I would appreciate.

But the question was: Joomleague or Leagueman?
In tennis I would say: advantage Joomleague.

Dont know, whether there is already a component on the joomla market, which controls all menu items of mod_fullmenu. Currently most of the items are hardcoded in mod_fullmenu.php. Only the component items will be pulled from database.

What, if a superadministrator has full control over the menu via a graphical user interface? Often used components could get their own first level item in the menubar accessable by a specific usergroup only. Not used items will be unpublished. Due to performance issues because of recursive database queries each usergroup menu could be cached somewhere.

Just an idea up to now.