Well .. another blog entry that has NOTHING to do with mapping.  As my son's baseball season is starting to get near, I've had to start preparing my JLeague extension to support some of the new requirements for the league.  After a great 2007 season with JLeague, I started to look at how to make the extension (and the league site) more valuable to the players, teams and even the parents.

I ultimately came to the conclusion that the approach I should take is to leverage the numerous plugins provided by Community Builder (CB) and integrate JLeague with CB.   After all ... the team table is really nothing more than .. guess what, a TABLE.  However, integration wasn't enough as I needed to differentiate between a TEAM profile and a COACH profile, FAN profile and for that fact, a SPONSOR profile (see the potential -- selling ad space for a sponsor profile that eventually lands on a team/coach/fan profile ... hmmmm!) .   So not only was integration a requirement, but also requiring the use of the APC (CB Advance Profile Control) extension I've been working on.  That extension will then enable me to develop packages and policies that I can assign to specific profile types to limit functionality as appropriate.

So, since my APC component (for the most part) is done, but still very much beta, all I needed to do was integrate with JLeague.  After only a couple of hours of work, I was successful in completing my integration between CB and JLeague.  Below is an example of the team profile page (based on a patTemplate I use with my APC component):

Now my league solution can utilize all of the fine plugins for CB, filter access to given CB tabs based on the profile type, enable teams to have their own photo galleries on their profile as well as team specific documents.  Not to mention the ever important schedule.  Team specific record history, head-to-head statistics and game history are now all developed using the CB tab framework.  

There is still some additional testing needed but as of right now, it is all coming together.  CB provides a solution that provides greater functionality for me without having to right too much code.   

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