Creating a sports betting site. CMS or custom code?

[supereek]

I have this fun new project and I am not sure yet how to handle it.. here comes the concept:

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I have this client who wants a sport betting website (closed not-public) where he and his friends/social-circle can log in and place fictional bets with points (not money) on soccer games.

The site also has to give the ability to place so called 'live bets' (as the game goes) like the bigger bookies have.
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Now I found some API's where live odds feed can be pulled from. But I am not sure yet how to create the website around it. I don't want to spend too much time on it, so I was hoping this can be done with some kind of CMS instead of all from scratch.

Does anyone know if this would be possible in WP or any other CMS? Any tips or advice is welcome.

 

[sam.hunt0710]

Very much possible in WP.

Custom Php script will be much better option for the project which you are looking for to be accomplished .

 

[Gogol]

Nono wp.. use wp dude. Use wp for even doing 2+ 2.

Jokes apart, look into frameworks like yii and laravel. WP is for the weak.

Anyways.. your choice.

 

[social engineer]

Wouldn't be too hard to bang something out in Node.

I know this is BHW but if your actually going to write something wordpress should be avoided purely from a security stand point.

 

[FatBee]

Can be done in WP, but the “real” way for this is a custom CMS. Easy to mod down the way.

 

[supereek]

Thanks for all the replies.

Very much possible in WP.

Custom Php script will be much better option for the project which you are looking for to be accomplished .

Yes, I wouldn't know how this can be done in WP.. I haven't coded any WP custom plugins before.

Nono wp.. use wp dude. Use wp for even doing 2+ 2.

Jokes apart, look into frameworks like yii and laravel. WP is for the weak.

Anyways.. your choice.

lol, yes you are right. Laravel and maybe even codeigniter seem doable for this but it will be too much work creating everything from scratch. Any ideas or known places where I can get some basic framework prebuilt sites where I could work ontop of and add my own functions and custom things?

Wouldn't be too hard to bang something out in Node.

I know this is BHW but if your actually going to write something wordpress should be avoided purely from a security stand point.

Yes node is very interesting and I have been wanting to pick it up, unfortunately I haven't gotten any time for it yet. Maybe in the future

Can be done in WP, but the “real” way for this is a custom CMS. Easy to mod down the way.

Yes if i don't find a quickfix I will probably end up doing it the long way..

 

[Gogol]

lol, yes you are right. Laravel and maybe even codeigniter seem doable for this but it will be too much work creating everything from scratch. Any ideas or known places where I can get some basic framework prebuilt sites where I could work ontop of and add my own functions and custom things?

It is certainly more work (atleast in the beginning), but it's worth it; if you take my words.

Wp is limited, both in terms of the code scope and the database tables. On the other hand, frameworks aren't. You can have your own db schema, instead of having to stick with the wp ones.

As for the frameworks, I am not sure about CI, but laravel and yii; both have crud generators which is a great tool for rapid app development.

This is where I prefer yii over laravel. Yii (don't bother working with v1.. v2 is 10 times better) has gui for its crud generator. The module is called gii.

As for pre made sites, crud generator can do the job for you very quickly. All you need is a db table. You can generate code for adding, updating, viewing and removing data from that table; with two clicks. Beat that, wp.

Still, if you need pre made sites, github is a great place for that.

I am thinking of making a series of tutorials to get bhw members introduced to yii.. Not sure how many of you would be interested though, lol.

 

[terrier2018]

IMHO, the main problem of WP (outside of security) is IT IS PAINFUL SLOW. It is so horribly slow that it needs some plugins to solve it. And even with all the plugins (wp rocket, wtc, wp faster cache) it is insanely slow.