Any PHP developers (and TF2 fans!) interested in getting involved with a web project?

[omfgnex]

Original post on reddit:

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Personally I often find myself confused about the market value of certain items in TF2; I have no idea and the only way I know of finding out is to ask around. This gave me the idea of a website to accumulate all of this data for easy reference. Hopefully it doesn't already exist, I did try and look around but couldn't find anything.

I put together a quick design with a few ideas I had. I'm open to suggestions so submit them if you have any. The website would just be a list of all the tradeable items in TF2, and a vote-powered comments system similar to reddit's to determine the legitimacy of market value suggestions. Or at least that's one way of doing it.

Another way of determining a market value would be to have people submit the value in metal. Then using that data, work out an average and suggest that as the market value. So if someone submits an item as 2 refined, and someone else submits it as 2 refined, the MV would become 1.5 refined metal (so, what, like 1 refined and 2 reclaimed or something? I'm not sure, Maths clearly isn't my strong point).

[URL="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7017086/TF2MV/tf2mv_design.png"]Check out the design I've done here.[/URL]

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It's dawned on me that in-order for this website to have some bad-ass functionality - to keep up with the ever-changing trading economy - it's going to need something a little more complex than what I had in mind. I'm a front-end developer, and whilst I've got some knowledge of PHP I am by no means a developer.

Would anyone be interested in helping me? You'll receive full credit on the website :) if you're interested then message me or [URL="http://steamcommunity.com/id/chrish/"]get me on Steam[/URL]! Hope I hear from someone![/quote]For details on what the backend is going to entail then please have a look at some of the comments. To summarize, it's going to be retrieving data from a trade server and using it to determine an average market value for an item.

Hope there's some people interested, I think this could be a really useful tool :)

[b]edit:[/b] think I've found someone who's gonna help me with this now. sweet

[compwhizii]

Link to the reddit post would of been nice.

[omfgnex]

Ahh sorry about that, I [i]did[/i] intend to add that to the end.

Here it is anyway :)

[url]http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/gksg9/what_would_people_think_of_a_tf2_market_value/[/url]