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Johnny — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:35:25 +0000

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Facebook lotto generator on iphone

Johnny — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:51:31 +0000

Yes it works on the iPhone.

Lotto Generator

Johnny — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:45:50 +0000

I wrote this facebook application mainly because I was bored. I am not new to the world of facebook application development. I have created apps that get hundreds of thousands of users for all types of companies. Although this is only my second personal facebook application. The first was my movie review/ticket/purchasing app which started to get soo much traffic that I was made an offer and company purchased it from me.

So onto this application.

This application is really simple. Generate numbers to play the lotto. I got the idea the other day and when I a few hours of downtime in my personal projects I decided it would be a good idea to do.

How does it work? Well the good news is shortly I am going to provide all the programming for this facebook application on this website. I am also going to work on a tutorial to walk through the process. But the princible is simple. I am generating random numbers, using a few algorithims and I added a pretty robust front to work for almost any lotto (or even roulette) application.

The above screen shot is an example of the form used to generate the numbers. Here is an excerpt from the about page of the application:

1. Preset Examples: This will provide a few links to click that will setup the tool to match those requirements for you.
2. Custom Critera: Here is where you setup the tool to generate the numbers to your specifications
3. Numbers to generate: This is a drop down that you will select how many numbers you need generated. For example in a win 3 lotto, there is 3 numbers picked so you would select 3 numbers to generate in that case.
4. Range: Every numbers (including the additional “Extra Ball”) needs to have a range. This is basically the range of numbers that the generator needs to select from. For example: If a Win 3 Lotto uses balls numbered 1-39, your range would be 1-39.
5. Sets: Sets is how many times do you want to perform this generation. If you were looking to buy 10 lotto tickets (so you would need 10 different picks) you would select 10 (or more to find more you like) sets of numbers.
6. Extra Ball: The extra ball is optional. This would only be selected in the case where, in say powerball, the range for the regular numbers is 1-59 but the “powerball” uses a different set of numbers 1-39.
7. Allow numbers to repeat: Setting this to Yes will tell the generator that selecting the same number twice is OK. In most cases this would be NO. For example, a Win 3 could be 1,1,2. The number one (1) repeated twice. In say a “Win 5″ the numbers would not be allowed to repeat. For example: 13,13,13,22,22 would NOT be a valid pick. But 13,22,24,25,26 would be!

As, you can see its pretty robust. I would recommend checking it out at Facebook and send me some feedback.

Enjoy, and look forward to the code and tutorials for creating this exact application!

mysqldump + php: You’re welcome.

Johnny — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 06:49:09 +0000

I just added some code for using mysqldump with PHP. It’s a pretty simple set of functions that you can expand to fit your needs.

This code just expands a bit on mysqldump and makes recovery and backups a bit easier. With the use of cronjobs and a script like this you may be able to sleep easier at night.

Check it out

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Facebook lotto generator on iphone

Lotto Generator

mysqldump + php: You’re welcome.