Can't figure this out!?

[dasphatman]

I'm trying to create a golf score script, and are doing ok so far, but has stumbled on an issue.

To make this explanation easy I have decided to only use 3 holes in my score card.

The scorecard have 3 holes (hole1, hole2, hole3) which has a preferred number of strokes (par5, par4, par4). Now each hole has a difficult rating (hcp2, hcp3, hcp1) where one is the most difficult one. So each hole looks like this:

Hole1, Par5, Hcp2
Hole2, Par4, Hcp3
Hole3, Par4, Hcp1

Now a golf player has what is called a handicap depending on how good the player is. The lower handicap the better the player. The handicap is made so a player can use extra strokes on a hole to his round. Lets say a player has handicap 4.5 then the below formal is deciding how many extra strokes he has:

<?php	
$maleslope = '131';
$malerating = '71.7';
$coursepar = '72';
?>
var handicap = validNum(document.form1.handicapindex.value)
 
var strokes = handicap * <? echo $maleslope; ?>  / 113 + <? echo $malerating; ?> - <? echo $coursepar; ?>;

newstroke = Math.round(strokes)
 
document.form1.strokecount.value = newstroke

The maleslope, malerating and coursepar is normally from a mysql DB.

In this case the player has 5 extra strokes on the 3 holes.

Now for the tricky part!

These 5 extra strokes should be divided to the 3 holes in such a way that the easiest hole (hole2) should get 1 extra stroke while the 2 others should get 2 extra strokes, So what I want is to get a output like this, problary in a loop:

var stroke1 = 5 + 2
var stroke2 = 4 + 1
var stroke3 = 4 + 2

These vars I can then use in the last part of the script. I have stumbled over this script which does some of the thing, but I'm not that good at javascript, so I can't figure out how to get the output like above:

var i=0, field=[0,1,2], number=document.form1.handicapindex.value;
  		while (number!==0)
  		{
    		field[i]+=1;
    		number-=1;
    		if (i===field.length-1) i=0
      		else i+=1;
  		}

The script would be getting its hcp and par variables like this:

<?php
$par1 = $row['par1'];
$par2 = $row['par2'];
$par3 = $row['par3'];

$hcp1 = $row['hcp1'];
$hcp2 = $row['hcp2'];
$hcp3 = $row['hcp3'];
?>

I hope somebody can help me getting the pieces together... Thanks alot

 

[mmerlinn]

You are missing a bunch of connections here so I can't seem to see how this all fits together. And I am tired and not real familiar with JS myself.

However, I don't understand why you used "while (number!==0)" in your second snippet. It looks like you know exactly how many times you will iterate through the loop. If so, using a "for" construction would simplify things.

As for the problem, I think I would attack it something along these lines.

1) Find out what is the largest number to put in the easiest field: largestnumber = integer(extrastrokes/numberofholes)
2) Find out the number of holes that need extra strokes: holecount = modulus(extrastrokes/numberofholes)
3) Create array with 3 columns to hold temporary values for each hole.
4) Fill column 1 with "hole" numbers.
5) Fill column 2 with easiness number corresponding to the hole.
6) Sort on column 2.
7) Fill all column 3 array elements with "largestnumber"
8) Loop from highest to lowest number in column 2 adding 1 to column 3 until "holecount" equals zero.
9) Sort on column 1.
10) Add values in column 3 to corresponding pars for each hole.

You will need to figure out how to do that in JS. I am simply too tired to do it now. Also, since I am so tired I may have missed something or completely screwed it up.

And I am sure there are better ways to do this. I just can't think of them.


mmerlinn

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