Design Document For DRAFT1846

Introduction

DRAFT1846 has been designed to look and feel as much like BOARD18 as possible.

This means that a couple of the sections of the BOARD18 design document can be applied, for the most part, directly to DRAFT1846.

These sections are:

• Environment
• Esthetics

The diagram to the right shows the general control flow between the DRAFT1846 components.
Note that many details have been omitted from this diagram.

JASON Data Object

This Object contains all of the information about a given draft except for the Draft ID.

 
array (
  'status' => 'Active',
  'updtCount' => 0,
  'numbPlayers' => 4,
  'curPlayer' => 1,
  'deck' => 
  array (
    0 => 'Ohio and Indiana',
    1 => 'Michigan Central',
    2 => 'Meat Packing Co.',
    3 => 'Blank Card',
    4 => 'Mail Contract',
    5 => 'Big 4',
    6 => 'Tunnel Blasting Co.',
    7 => 'Blank Card',
    8 => 'Michigan Southern',
    9 => 'Blank Card',
    10 => 'Blank Card',
    11 => 'Chicago and W. Indiana',
  ),
  'hand' => 
  array (
  ),
  'players' => 
  array (
    0 => 
    array (
      'name' => 'Paul',
      'email' => 'paul.zieske@gmail.com',
      'confirmed' => 'Yes',
      'cash' => 400,
      'privates' => 
      array (
      ),
    ),
    1 => 
    array (
      'name' => 'Chris',
      'email' => 'garden.nomad@gmail.com',
      'confirmed' => 'Yes',
      'cash' => 400,
      'privates' => 
      array (
      ),
    ),
    2 => 
    array (
      'name' => 'Rich',
      'email' => 'rich02@board18.org',
      'confirmed' => 'Yes',
      'cash' => 400,
      'privates' => 
      array (
      ),
    ),
    3 => 
    array (
      'name' => 'Frank',
      'email' => 'franktaw@netscape.net',
      'confirmed' => 'Yes',
      'cash' => 400,
      'privates' => 
      array (
      ),
    ),
  ),
  'return' => 'success',
)

Some Fields of Note

The stringified JSON database table item contains some fields that could use some explanation. A number of these fields are mentioned and explained here.

The status field

The D1846.draft.status field is used to track the progress of the draft.
It can have one of these vallues:

• Pending: Still waiting for at least one player to confirm.
• Confirmed: All players have confirmed their emai addresses.
• Active: The draft is active and more than one card is left.
• Last: The last remaining private is being processed.
• Done: The draft is completed.

Database Structure

The DRAFT1846 database is structured as follows:

 
mysql> show columns from draft_table;
+---------------+------------------+------+-----+-------------------+-----------------------------+
| Field         | Type             | Null | Key | Default           | Extra                       |
+---------------+------------------+------+-----+-------------------+-----------------------------+
| draft_id      | int(11) unsigned | NO   | PRI | NULL              | auto_increment              |
| draft         | text             | YES  |     | NULL              |                             |
| activity_date | timestamp        | NO   |     | CURRENT_TIMESTAMP | on update CURRENT_TIMESTAMP |
+---------------+------------------+------+-----+-------------------+-----------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

The draft field is a text string containing the stringafied JSON data object as shown above.

This page is a stub.

The BOARD18 Project will soon be expanding it.