Need help understanding *.HY3 entry files.

[Eddie Rowe]

I've seen a few posts on how to correctly calculate the checksum on *.hy3 files, but I haven't yet stumbled on one that describes the field-record layout of meet entry files for HyTek MM.  Does anyone have such a layout that they can provide? 

Thanks,
Eddie

[Mike Walsh]

When I implemented Meet Manager Export for my WordPress Swim Team plugin (see http://www.wp-swimteam.org), I started with a known good Meet Manager Entry File and iterated on my code until I could export the same thing from my WordPress plugin.  It was a very iterative process but none of it was very difficult to implement however it was very time consuming.

 

I will say that without access to Meet Manager to test with it will be very hard to do.  What I did was create a small swim meet in Meet Manager and once it was all set up (events, swimmers, etc.), I exported the entries file.  I then used information from this group (search the archives for links to various Google Docs, particularly those from Troy DeLano (who has documented a lot of the records), to determine how to map the data in my database into the proper fields within the Hy-tek records.

 

You are welcome to peruse the PHP code for my plugin to see how I generated a Meet Entries file.  You can find the bulk of the Hy-tek code I wrote here:  http://sourceforge.net/p/wp-swimteam/code/976/tree/plugin/trunk/class/hy-tek.class.php  It builds on some SDIF functionality but it should help you get the general idea of the record sequence I was able to get to work.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Mike

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