HH converters

[Talking Poker]

Any progress with this, de-coder?

[de-coder]

I've pulled 2 all-nighters in the past week, so I haven't had a lot of time. I did check the spec on the server so I'm ok on that front. I also have a rough functional design for it (which is really my first step) and I've built a bit of testing code.

I still need a really good idea of what we want the output to look like, but I'm designing the app to separate the HH from the output.

I'll build converters for whatever site we want that will convert the file to standard xml and then I'll run the xml through a stylesheet. That will enable me to add or change a particular sites conversion without changing the output at all. It will also allow me to generate standard output for each site and if we make a design change to the output it will automatically affect all sites. It also means that I'll be able to plug new sites into the converter easily, without having to worry about design.

It would be helpful if people could post HH files for a site and type of game they'd like converted (I only have stars and party myself and those are limited to tourney's at stars and full ring games at party).

[Talking Poker]

There are loads - and loads and loads and loads - of HHs in thew "How Should I have Played This?" section. That should be more than enough to keep you busy for a while.

I'll try to come up with a pretty output format for you soon (suggestions are welcome), but it sounds like that will be the last step and should be easy to change once you have everything else functional.

Thanks for this, btw.

[de-coder]

DUH... I am really very tired today...


you're welcome.

[de-coder]

just a quick update.

I've designed the xml document and dtd and had a chance to build some poc code and the results are good.

I've got the methods I need and some of the functions built. I should have some beta code for handling pokerstars files sometime this week (I hope). Once that's done I'll work on whatever site is in most demand.

[Talking Poker]

Sweet. I'm looking forward to this.

What will you use to code the front end of this? Well, not so much the FRONT end, but I guess I mean the back end part that formats the results once you've captured all the data from the hand.

[de-coder]

it'll all be php. The xml will be parsed by xsl on the back end so the user will only see the result document.

I still need to do a little work in figuring out what the output for the forum needs to look like, but I'll do that at the end.

The beta code won't generate the prettiest output, but just the gist so I can see if I have bugs in the translation. I'm really hoping to have something you can look at by the end of the week.