What features would you like to see in Cubeia Poker? Here are some features I'd like to see:

• Anti-cheating/spam system (1 account per IP, e-mail provider blacklist (ie 10minutemail), CAPTCHA verification, admin alert on suspicious account activity etc.)
• Easy third-party CMS integration (Easily customizable registration forms?)
• Easy 'Login with Facebook' integration
• Theme management (to allow multiple templates, ideal for people who want to release templates and designs)
• Advanced tournament options (ie start if 90 people joined, automatically copy and create sit 'n go if previous sit 'n go started etc.)
• HTML5 default design similar to the Flash client

What are your thoughts?

Hi,

All good! I'll just ping in with some opinions below, eh?

• Authentication, authorization and basic security will have to be handled by the website the poker is deployed on. Ie a user will register and log-in somewhere (for example a CMS) and that's where most checks should be made.
• We've looked at Wordpress integration for CMS, it would involved writing a few plugins to authenticate, show wallet and publish poker.
• If there's a CMS integration in place, login with FB should be easy.
• Theme management would be awesome
• Tournament templating is in the works...

Sounds great! The way you explain the authentication method would lead me to think you'll be able to define the user profile database in the Poker server (ie "Profiles are called from com_user_profiles in the Joomla db. The field 'Name' is for names, 'md5_pw' for Passwords, and 'Chips' for chips etc"). Is that what you're implying? That'd be awesome, it would allow for an even greater customization!

Also a Web 2.0-esque installation process and admin backend would be amazing for the less tech savvy (or lazy, and who isn't lazy?) users (ie the way Wordpress is installed. Define titles, paths, databases etc. and hit Install, then log into an admin panel showing statistics and other data. Maybe even a plugin upload/install panel for third party plugins?).

Just my 2 cents! Posting anything that jumps into mind

The way it would work initially is this:

1) The poker server itself doesn't have a database, it connects to a "backoffice" (BO) via an integration.

2) By default the above BO will be based on what we call Cubeia Network. It contains a web service for user management.

3) A Wordpress (or similar) plugin would connect to the BO on login/logout to authenticate the user.

So, no: we wouldn't initially use the CMS database directly. It's not impossible though, what you need to do is to write a new "login handler" which is perfectly doable.

This is one great thing I like about Cubeia's is to allow you to handle your database work through custom service handlers to do persistence as in the case of login handler and in game score CRUD. That was the only way I did to solve authentication with existing board software. This is how it was done. Through a configuration file, the server will then select which board profile to use for authentication, it was done for IPB, Xenforo and phpBB3 but could well be used to add any other board like Joomla or the like providing you know the internal database joomla schema and how to decode the user's hashed password through since each uses different algorithm which can be sometimes complex like the case of Xenforo where the hashed password is stored in a clob, which means that you can just do a SQL query to see the hash password making it a pain to test. You can take a look at how it was coded, I've pushed the source code long ago in github.