In step 1 of this tutorial, we began our journey down the rabbit hole of module development by first creating a module using the Module Builder tool, adding permissions and a custom database setting entry via a Bonfire Migration and creating… Continue Reading
If you’re like me, you do most of your development work on a local desktop environment. For me, that means running the latest version of VertrigoServ on a Windows 7 desktop using a copy of PHPStorm and the Git command… Continue Reading
Building modules on the ootp open web platform is a fast way to get right to building the type of tool you want to create. For the third part of the oowp developer tutorials, I am going to demonstrate this… Continue Reading
So far in our intro to FOSP series we have looked at: The major components of the architecture Walked through installing and setting it up a web server Dove into the basics of Bonfire and its modular architecture If you’ve… Continue Reading
To begin developing with the Fox open sports platform, I need to first throw out a few helpful and important prerequisites: Knowledge of PHP 5.2 + and MySQL 5 Good understanding of object oriented (OO) programming Understanding of MVC development Knowledge of CodeIgniter 2.x Familiarity with HMVC and… Continue Reading
In this second part of the Fox Open Sports Platform introduction, we will walk through the steps to download and install the library on your web server. The Bonfire library makes installation a breeze so let’s see how we get… Continue Reading
The Fox Open Sports Platform combines leading open source development technologies with a set of OOTP specific PHP modules and developer tools to help reduce the time and effort needed to create OOTP based web sites. Using this platform, mod… Continue Reading
Since I first announced the OOTP Open Web Platform project back int he beginning of March, development of the mod has been moving along quietly. This is due to a couple things: The Bonfire team made a change to use the… Continue Reading
A new release is available today for the OOTP Fantasy Baseball Leagues mod. Version 1.0.1 is a maintenance level release which upgrades the mod with better OOTP 12 support and some slight admin updates. The following changes are included: Enhancements… Continue Reading
AUTHORS NOTE: This is the final Road to 1.0 article. Thanks for following along on this journey through coding this mod. Development of the 1.0 version of the mod ceases Monday the 26th. Here's hoping we see some great Fantasy… Continue Reading