[wp-hackers] Advice regarding Custom Post Types and Taxonomies

[Ben Lobaugh]

Mike I am really leaning towards multiple CPTs. Otto can smack me over 
the head if I am wrong here, but this is what I envision

CPTs:
- Team - Contains the team info (Name, Logo, Description, Location, etc)
- Roster - Each team creates a new roster each year. Rosters can be 
managed by the user with admin access to the team (Coach?). A roster 
will contain the Team ID as it's parent ID. Each Roster can store the 
ids of its players as meta data
- PlayerHistory- Contains historical info on the player (stats, team, 
etc). Each player is a user, store that user's id as meta data here

Built in:
- Users: Coaches and Players should be users. Filling out the user's 
profile page will add data to them. Their current team can be pulled 
from the Roster CPT. Coach historical info could also be stored in 
Roster and PlayerHistory possibly
---- Putting coaches and players in here also allows the system to 
expand in the future and allows coaches and players to manage their own 
info. A plugin like Members could be used to setup roles and permissions.

3rd Party Plugins:
- Posts 2 Posts - Could be used to relate the CPTs if you do not want to 
do it pragmatically
- Members - Possibly used in the future if you wish to expand the site 
to allow players and coaches login access

This system could expand pretty well into a full platform for managing 
teams, players, and stats. That may be too complex for your situation 
though ;)


On 8/9/12 4:16 PM, Mike Walsh wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Mike Walsh <mpwalsh8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> [ snipped ]
>> I think the real question is why would a "team" be a post type? A team
>> is essentially a group of players, wouldn't it make more sense as a
>> taxonomy?
>>
>> If you need to define a post type for the team in order to have stuff
>> about that team in the posts-table (totally understandable), then I'd
>> associate the team-post to the team-taxonomy in an implicit manner,
>> perhaps by sharing the postname and the term-slug. Essentially, the
>> players and the team would both have the same terms in the
>> team-taxonomy.
>>
>>
> This exact question is exactly what I am trying to ascertain.  In our
> situation, which I suspect is pretty typical, a team is more than a group
> of players which is why in my current implementation I defined the roster
> (which is absolutely a group of players) as a taxonomy and a team, which
> has information (e.g. a coach, a manager, a treasurer, a mailing address, a
> contact email, etc.) as  custom post type.
>
> Where I am struggling, and right now I am leaning toward Posts2Posts, to
> connect players to teams, is how to connect everything together.
>
> Right now I have my Roster as a custom taxonomy and have created two terms
> - "2011-2012" and "2012-2013".  I can go through the players and assign
> them to the rosters they are part of.  Everything works great until I add a
> second team and this is where I am stuck.
>
> Here is a scenario:  Player 1 is a member of Team A for 2011-2012 and
> member of Team B for 2012-2013.  Player 2 is a member of Team B for both
> 2011-2012 and 2012-2013  Player 3 is only a member of Team A for 2012-2013.
>   Both Team A and Team B had rosters for 2011-2012 and 2012-2013.
>
> I am not sure how I could uniquely identify the roster for Team A for
> 2011-2012.  I would need to connect a player to a specific team roster
> which is why I started thinking that a hierarchical CPT might be a solution.
>
> Why would I have more than one team?  Imagine a scenario where a club
> fields multiple teams in an age group.  They may choose to play in two
> different leagues with some overlap between rosters.  A pool of players can
> be assembled into multiple rosters depending on the need.
>
>
> Does what I am trying to do make sense?  Maybe I should draw a picture of
> the relationship i am trying to construct.
>
>