Can I have AI create me a website to be used by voters?
As an experiment, I ask a "What if" Specifically, is it possible to create a "Bracket" as might be used during March Madness - but with a reimagining
- Instead of basketball teams competing
- Voters compete.
- Instead of playing a physical game...
- 2 voters/households anonymously submit insights to an AI specific to the household.
- Each AI summarizes the insights and submits to a clearing house to be matched
- Each registered household insights are to be matched with a voter/household with political positions that are diametrically opposed
- The resulting paired insight from the AI clearing house are submitted to voter for approvals
- Both households must approve
- If no approval AI will repeat summarize process
- AI will repeat summarization and resubmit to voter/household for approval
- Repeat for X number of times.
- When summarized insights are approved
- A new voter/household that is determined to be in opposition is identified.
- A new sequence with new voter/household is initiated.
- The process stops when X number of Voters for a given elected official is reached.
- Congressman Y configures his side to accept when X number of Voters to be reached
- For topic Z, he/she set 500 voters agreed/approvals before he acts
Below is a starting point...I can/will continue to ask AI for coding pieces and methods get the remainder to work
Create me a python/flask website for a bracket tournament
Exported on 27/09/2024 at 09:26:41 from Perplexity.ai - with SaveMyChatbot
User
create me a python/flask website for a bracket tournament
AI answer
Certainly! I'll create a basic Python/Flask website for a bracket tournament. This example will include a simple bracket structure, the ability to add teams, and update match results. Here's a step-by-step guide to create this website:
1. Set up the project
First, create a new directory for your project and set up a virtual environment:
mkdir bracket_tournament
cd bracket_tournament
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate # On Windows, use: venv\Scripts\activate
Install the required packages:
pip install flask
2. Create the Flask application
Create a new file called app.py
with the following content:
from flask import Flask, render_template, request, redirect, url_for
from datetime import datetime
app = Flask(__name__)
# In-memory storage for teams and matches
teams = []
matches = []
@app.route('/')
def index():
return render_template('index.html', teams=teams, matches=matches)
@app.route('/add_team', methods=['POST'])
def add_team():
team_name = request.form['team_name']
if team_name and team_name not in teams:
teams.append(team_name)
return redirect(url_for('index'))
@app.route('/generate_bracket', methods=['POST'])
def generate_bracket():
global matches
matches = []
for i in range(0, len(teams), 2):
if i + 1 < len(teams):
matches.append({'team1': teams[i], 'team2': teams[i+1], 'winner': None})
else:
matches.append({'team1': teams[i], 'team2': 'BYE', 'winner': teams[i]})
return redirect(url_for('index'))
@app.route('/update_match', methods=['POST'])
def update_match():
match_index = int(request.form['match_index'])
winner = request.form['winner']
matches[match_index]['winner'] = winner
return redirect(url_for('index'))
if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run(debug=True)
3. Create HTML templates
Create a new directory called templates
in your project folder, and add a file named index.html
with the following content:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Bracket Tournament</title>
<style>
body { font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0; padding: 20px; }
h1, h2 { color: #333; }
form { margin-bottom: 20px; }
ul { list-style-type: none; padding: 0; }
li { margin-bottom: 10px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Bracket Tournament</h1>
<h2>Add Team</h2>
<form action="{{ url_for('add_team') }}" method="post">
<input type="text" name="team_name" required>
<button type="submit">Add Team</button>
</form>
<h2>Teams</h2>
<ul>
{% for team in teams %}
<li>{{ team }}</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
<form action="{{ url_for('generate_bracket') }}" method="post">
<button type="submit">Generate Bracket</button>
</form>
<h2>Matches</h2>
<ul>
{% for match in matches %}
<li>
{{ match.team1 }} vs {{ match.team2 }}
{% if not match.winner %}
<form action="{{ url_for('update_match') }}" method="post" style="display: inline;">
<input type="hidden" name="match_index" value="{{ loop.index0 }}">
<button type="submit" name="winner" value="{{ match.team1 }}">{{ match.team1 }} Wins</button>
<button type="submit" name="winner" value="{{ match.team2 }}">{{ match.team2 }} Wins</button>
</form>
{% else %}
- Winner: {{ match.winner }}
{% endif %}
</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
</body>
</html>
4. Run the application
Now you can run your Flask application:
python app.py
Visit http://localhost:5000
in your web browser to see the bracket tournament website.
Features of this bracket tournament website:
- Add teams to the tournament
- Generate a bracket based on the added teams
- Update match results
- Display the current state of the tournament
This is a basic implementation and can be extended with more features such as:
- Multiple rounds of the tournament
- Saving data to a database
- User authentication
- More sophisticated bracket generation algorithms
- Improved styling and user interface
Remember that this is a simple example and doesn't include error handling or data persistence. For a production application, you'd want to add those features and consider using a database to store the tournament data.
User
Add the features to have 10 rounds, save data to a mysql db, user authentication and improved styling and user interface with more sophisticated bracket generations algorithms
AI answer
Certainly! I'll enhance the bracket tournament website with the features you requested. Here's an improved version of the Flask application that includes 10 rounds, MySQL database integration, user authentication, improved styling, and more sophisticated bracket generation.
1. Set up the project
First, install the required packages:
pip install flask flask-sqlalchemy flask-login mysql-connector-python
2. Create the Flask application
Create a new file called app.py
with the following content:
from flask import Flask, render_template, request, redirect, url_for, flash
from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
from flask_login import LoginManager, UserMixin, login_user, login_required, logout_user, current_user
from werkzeug.security import generate_password_hash, check_password_hash
import random
app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['SECRET_KEY'] = 'your_secret_key'
app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'mysql://username:password@localhost/tournament_db'
db = SQLAlchemy(app)
login_manager = LoginManager(app)
login_manager.login_view = 'login'
class User(UserMixin, db.Model):
id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
username = db.Column(db.String(80), unique=True, nullable=False)
password_hash = db.Column(db.String(120), nullable=False)
class Team(db.Model):
id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
name = db.Column(db.String(80), unique=True, nullable=False)
class Match(db.Model):
id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
round = db.Column(db.Integer, nullable=False)
team1_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('team.id'))
team2_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('team.id'))
winner_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('team.id'))
team1 = db.relationship('Team', foreign_keys=[team1_id])
team2 = db.relationship('Team', foreign_keys=[team2_id])
winner = db.relationship('Team', foreign_keys=[winner_id])
@login_manager.user_loader
def load_user(user_id):
return User.query.get(int(user_id))
@app.route('/')
def index():
teams = Team.query.all()
matches = Match.query.order_by(Match.round).all()
return render_template('index.html', teams=teams, matches=matches)
@app.route('/register', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def register():
if request.method == 'POST':
username = request.form['username']
password = request.form['password']
user = User.query.filter_by(username=username).first()
if user:
flash('Username already exists')
else:
new_user = User(username=username, password_hash=generate_password_hash(password))
db.session.add(new_user)
db.session.commit()
flash('Registration successful')
return redirect(url_for('login'))
return render_template('register.html')
@app.route('/login', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def login():
if request.method == 'POST':
username = request.form['username']
password = request.form['password']
user = User.query.filter_by(username=username).first()
if user and check_password_hash(user.password_hash, password):
login_user(user)
return redirect(url_for('index'))
else:
flash('Invalid username or password')
return render_template('login.html')
@app.route('/logout')
@login_required
def logout():
logout_user()
return redirect(url_for('index'))
@app.route('/add_team', methods=['POST'])
@login_required
def add_team():
team_name = request.form['team_name']
if team_name and not Team.query.filter_by(name=team_name).first():
new_team = Team(name=team_name)
db.session.add(new_team)
db.session.commit()
return redirect(url_for('index'))
@app.route('/generate_bracket', methods=['POST'])
@login_required
def generate_bracket():
teams = Team.query.all()
random.shuffle(teams)
Match.query.delete()
db.session.commit()
current_round = 1
current_teams = teams
while len(current_teams) > 1:
next_round_teams = []
for i in range(0, len(current_teams), 2):
team1 = current_teams[i]
team2 = current_teams[i + 1] if i + 1 < len(current_teams) else None
if team2:
match = Match(round=current_round, team1=team1, team2=team2)
else:
match = Match(round=current_round, team1=team1, winner=team1)
next_round_teams.append(team1)
db.session.add(match)
db.session.commit()
current_round += 1
current_teams = next_round_teams
return redirect(url_for('index'))
@app.route('/update_match', methods=['POST'])
@login_required
def update_match():
match_id = int(request.form['match_id'])
winner_id = int(request.form['winner_id'])
match = Match.query.get(match_id)
match.winner_id = winner_id
db.session.commit()
next_round = match.round + 1
next_match = Match.query.filter_by(round=next_round).filter(
(Match.team1_id == None) | (Match.team2_id == None)
).first()
if next_match:
if next_match.team1_id is None:
next_match.team1_id = winner_id
else:
next_match.team2_id = winner_id
db.session.commit()
return redirect(url_for('index'))
if __name__ == '__main__':
with app.app_context():
db.create_all()
app.run(debug=True)
3. Create HTML templates
Create a templates
folder and add the following HTML files: base.html
:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Bracket Tournament</title>
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.1.3/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<style>
body { padding-top: 60px; }
.tournament-bracket { display: flex; flex-direction: row; }
.round { margin-right: 30px; }
.match { margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #ddd; border-radius: 5px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<nav class="navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-light bg-light fixed-top">
<div class="container">
<a class="navbar-brand" href="{{ url_for('index') }}">Bracket Tournament</a>
<div class="navbar-nav">
{% if current_user.is_authenticated %}
<a class="nav-item nav-link" href="{{ url_for('logout') }}">Logout</a>
{% else %}
<a class="nav-item nav-link" href="{{ url_for('login') }}">Login</a>
<a class="nav-item nav-link" href="{{ url_for('register') }}">Register</a>
{% endif %}
</div>
</div>
</nav>
<div class="container">
{% with messages = get_flashed_messages() %}
{% if messages %}
{% for message in messages %}
<div class="alert alert-info">{{ message }}</div>
{% endfor %}
{% endif %}
{% endwith %}
{% block content %}{% endblock %}
</div>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.1.3/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
index.html
:
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% block content %}
<h1 class="mb-4">Bracket Tournament</h1>
{% if current_user.is_authenticated %}
<h2>Add Team</h2>
<form action="{{ url_for('add_team') }}" method="post" class="mb-4">
<div class="input-group">
<input type="text" name="team_name" class="form-control" required>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Add Team</button>
</div>
</form>
<h2>Teams</h2>
<ul class="list-group mb-4">
{% for team in teams %}
<li class="list-group-item">{{ team.name }}</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
<form action="{{ url_for('generate_bracket') }}" method="post" class="mb-4">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-success">Generate Bracket</button>
</form>
<h2>Tournament Bracket</h2>
<div class="tournament-bracket">
{% set max_round = matches|map(attribute='round')|max %}
{% for round in range(1, max_round + 1) %}
<div class="round">
<h3>Round {{ round }}</h3>
{% for match in matches if match.round == round %}
<div class="match">
<p>{{ match.team1.name }} vs {{ match.team2.name if match.team2 else 'BYE' }}</p>
{% if not match.winner %}
<form action="{{ url_for('update_match') }}" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="match_id" value="{{ match.id }}">
<button type="submit" name="winner_id" value="{{ match.team1.id }}" class="btn btn-sm btn-outline-primary">{{ match.team1.name }} Wins</button>
{% if match.team2 %}
<button type="submit" name="winner_id" value="{{ match.team2.id }}" class="btn btn-sm btn-outline-primary">{{ match.team2.name }} Wins</button>
{% endif %}
</form>
{% else %}
<p>Winner: {{ match.winner.name }}</p>
{% endif %}
</div>
{% endfor %}
</div>
{% endfor %}
</div>
{% else %}
<p>Please <a href="{{ url_for('login') }}">login</a> or <a href="{{ url_for('register') }}">register</a> to manage the tournament.</p>
{% endif %}
{% endblock %}
login.html
:
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% block content %}
<h1>Login</h1>
<form method="post">
<div class="mb-3">
<label for="username" class="form-label">Username</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="username" name="username" required>
</div>
<div class="mb-3">
<label for="password" class="form-label">Password</label>
<input type="password" class="form-control" id="password" name="password" required>
</div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Login</button>
</form>
{% endblock %}
register.html
:
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% block content %}
<h1>Register</h1>
<form method="post">
<div class="mb-3">
<label for="username" class="form-label">Username</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="username" name="username" required>
</div>
<div class="mb-3">
<label for="password" class="form-label">Password</label>
<input type="password" class="form-control" id="password" name="password" required>
</div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Register</button>
</form>
{% endblock %}
4. Set up the MySQL database
Create a new MySQL database called tournament_db
and update the SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI
in app.py
with your MySQL credentials.
5. Run the application
Run the Flask application:
python app.py
Visit http://localhost:5000
in your web browser to see the improved bracket tournament website. This enhanced version of the bracket tournament website includes:
- User authentication (registration and login)
- MySQL database integration for persistent data storage
- Support for up to 10 rounds (or more, depending on the number of teams)
- Improved styling using Bootstrap
- More sophisticated bracket generation algorithm
- Better user interface with clear separation of rounds and matches
The bracket generation algorithm now:
- Randomly shuffles teams before creating matches
- Handles byes automatically
- Creates matches for multiple rounds
- Advances winners to the next round automatically
You can further improve this application by adding features like:
- Email verification for user registration
- Password reset functionality
- Admin panel for tournament management
- Tournament history and statistics
- Real-time updates using WebSockets
Remember to secure your application by using environment variables for sensitive information like database credentials and secret keys when deploying to production.
Sources:
- (1) Setting Up Flask MySQL Integration: 4 Easy Steps - Hevo Data
- (2) Connecting to the MySQL database in a Flask app - PlanetScale
- (3) PYTHON – FLASK MYSQL CONNECTION - Codementor
- (4) Flask-MySQL — flask-mysql 1.4.0 documentation
- (5) Using MySQL in Flask - python - Stack Overflow
- (6) How To Use MySQL Database With Flask - Flask Fridays #9
- (7) Profile Application using Python Flask and MySQL - GeeksforGeeks
- (8) 8 - Test Connection to MySQL DB using Flask - YouTube
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