PREPARATION

PLAYER AUTHENTICATION

INITIATING A GAME

GAME OVER CALLBACKS

INFORMATIONAL FUNCTIONS

HALL OF FAME

PLAYER AUTHENTICATION

When players visit your website to join your tournament they should register with their LSN player name, so you need to have a way of authenticating people as LSN players with a current valid account. We provide a simple function to authenticate a player. You must call this url:

http://codo-linux1.bytemark.co.uk/GameAdmin/login

You need to pass these parameters

admin_id Your tournament admin_id
return_url A url which will be called back by the login system

If a player successfully logs in with his player name and password the tournament system will call the return url with the following data:

admin_id You may need this if your callback url is handling more than one tournament.
player_name The players LSN name.

Your callback handler can then store the player’s name in your database, set a cookie, and redirect to a welcome page on your site. Note that you do not get to know any player’s LSN password. If you set a cookie with the players name you can bypass the login process for future visits.