7:00 – 4:30 ASRC MKT

• Asked Wayne yesterday if I could have a desk in the HCC lab, since I’m going to Columbia for no good reason these days.
  • In support of this, got my laptop updated with code bases, PHP, database, etc.
• Working on getting up the motivation to start combining the db and code pieces. So as a way of avoiding this, tweaked the CHIIR DC submission by using part of my abstract from the HCIC poster and using that browser mockup instead of the one that I put together the other day. I’m conflicted in that it has a word cloud, but I could argue that a word cloud is a reasonable boundary object for someone glancing through the papers and looking at the pictures. I also fixed the populations chart so that the terms line up with the simulation screenshots. 
• The RedBeanPHP file didn’t make it into subversion, so I downloaded it at home, verified that everything runs and committed it in the right place.
• Ok, I think the plan will be to write a test harness that produces a threaded discussion with multiple users and votes for a solution that writes into the DB and is then able to retrieve the thread. To do that I’m going to need one-to-many and many-to-one, so I need to read more of the RedBeanPHP docs
  • Note that the name of the list has to match the type of beans it contains. So, the ‘ownProductList’ contains beans of type ‘product‘, a pageList contains pages, an ‘ownCarList’ contains ‘cars‘ and so on. This convention is used to create the database mapping, in case of the shop, every product record will get a ‘shop_id’field.
  • Ok, I think this is what I want to do:

    <?php
    /**
     * Created by IntelliJ IDEA.
     * Date: 10/20/2017
     * Time: 3:10 PM
     */
    require_once 'libs/rb.php';
    R::setup( 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=polarizationgameone', 'root', 'postgres' );
    R::fancyDebug(TRUE);
    
    // create or get the scenarios
    $CREATE_SCENARIOS = TRUE;
    
    if(isset($CREATE_SCENARIOS)){
        echo "CREATE_SCENARIOS defined\n";
    }else{
        echo "CREATE_SCENARIOS not defined\n";
    }
    
    // create or get a random number of users between $minPlayers and $maxPlayers
    $CREATE_PLAYERS = NULL;
    $minPlayers = 3;
    $maxPlayers = 5;
    $numPlayers = rand($minPlayers, $maxPlayers);
    if(isset($CREATE_PLAYERS)){
        echo "CREATE_PLAYERS defined\n";
    }else{
        echo "CREATE_PLAYERS not defined\n";
    }
    
    // create a game using the scenarios and the players
    
    // for $numTurns, randomly choose a player to add a chat message
    $minTurns = 10;
    $maxTurns = 20;
    $numTurns = rand($minTurns, $maxTurns);
    for ($t = 0; $t < $numTurns; $t++){
        // connect to a previous statement or set thread_parent to zero
        // write the statment
        // maybe vote for a message?. At the end, some games need to have agreement.
        // a player changing votes pulls their vote from any previous message.
        // produce a list of posts with votes. It'll be something between 0 and $numPlayers
        // if a post has $numPlayers votes, its won. Allocate points to all players and some more to the 
        //  player with the winning post
        
        // print the status of this turn
        echo "$t\n";
    }
    
    // reconstruct the game from the database to compare and validate
    
    
    R::close();