MatchMaker

[Viper]

i need to make a match maker program but i have no idea how iam going to do it, it will be done by people filling out a form then the program will see who matched who best. any help will be nice plz n thx

[beard0]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH

Do you really expect poeple to just write it for you? At 174 posts, you've been around here long enough to know better than to ask for help without posting code.

[codemage]

Figure out what criteria you can match people by.

Perhaps by zodiac sign, and then a proximity match by age.

[Viper]

im not looking for code im looking for suggestions

[MysticVegeta]

Food!! Religion could be a criteria.

Btw: Shouldnt this be off-topic thread?

[Paul]

I'd say use an flexible array of records. For every person who takes the survey, you put their information into a record in the specific element of the array.
E.g.
person(1).name = "Paul"
person(1).FavColor = "Blue"

Then you can build your own query procedure which will search through the records for a specific name, then match all the fields, y'know something with a counter. Then output the most suitable person.

Also I think a person(n).sex is important too

[person]

Quote:

Also I think a person(n).sex is important too

more like :

person(n). sexual preference is important too

[beard0]

person wrote:

Quote:

Also I think a person(n).sex is important too

more like :

person(n). sexual preference is important too

Thank you person! I was the equity representative at my school, and tried to make the rest of the student council see how exclusive of gays the matchmakers were, but nobody would listen. I was hugely disapointed in our staff advisor, who I felt should have steped in, but must have been too homophobic herself to do so.

[md]

sexual preference and sex are not mutually exclusive... you need to know what gender people are

[beard0]

Cornflake wrote:

sexual preference and sex are not mutually exclusive... you need to know what gender people are ;)

True. It was, however, more important that sexual preference be stated explicitly as being necessary.

[Notoroge]

MatchMaking website serves as good practice for learning how to talk with women if you're a newb at that sort of thing. Other than that, I wouldn't put all my eggs in that basket (both literal and metaphorical).

[Dan]

Notoroge wrote:

MatchMaking website serves as good practice for learning how to talk with women if you're a newb at that sort of thing. Other than that, I wouldn't put all my eggs in that basket (both literal and metaphorical).

Some times you just outright srace me temp.......oh ya i have to get around to chaing your username and such over. I have just been overwellmed with school.

And talking to women? how whould that be difrent then talking to any one eltes? I mean unless you are not being your self there realy is not diffrence....

[Martin]

I'd use a point system, and then rate choices by their proximity.

Like, for an abstract example, let's say that the section was hair colour (just for an example). Choices are:

1. Brown
2. Black
3. Blonde
4. Red
5. Gray

Give 5 points for people with matching hair, 3 points for people whose colour is within 1 of it (so for a red head give 3 points if the matchee has gray or blonde hair). And so on.

[beard0]

Have a question like Martin's, but then ask for a preference for the matching. (Remember to have a "no preference" option.)

[codemage]

Maybe get them to rank what is important (from 1 to 5, etc), and then have the match score reflect that value.