Thnks :D been gettin real annoyed with this recently, now to stop the buggers for a few weeks then i,ll be removing the arcade from my site anyways, but thnx :D

K now I have one thing. When I redid it and all it shows up fine. Now in the usergroup part. I put 5 posts 2 hours. Now what things do I put yes to? I have it at

Yes they can play / view arcade. Post comments. and the other one. I don't have it where they can delete and edit them. But then I log in as my test and it lets me straight in the arcade :(

bump..

Did you set the usergroup settings for your test? Also do you actually have 5 posts in the last 2 hours? For testing purpases I always set the minimum to 1 more than I had in that spedified time period. Try that.

Lol, no need to bump... Look at the time I replied and the time you bumped.. ;) I'm on it!

hmm. Well I had set the usergroup settings for the one that the user test was in. I put 5 posts in 2 hours. That's what I really want it at. I went to the arcade and it gave me permission crap :(

*clicked install*

great one!!!

I asked for this EXACT hack when I installed the arcade months ago. This is perfect.

Hmm. I know the aliensoup owner, he had told me how to install a minimum post thing. I think that it's getting in the way now.. Because when I delete the line in the arcade where it showed it. And insert yours. Login as a user and it says " You do not have the ten posts necessary to play in the arcade " . So I give him 11 posts and he can play in the arcade. So did I run a query, and if so can I take it out?

I know I ran a query just forgot what it was called.

DO NOT delete any line in the arcade.php. Read the instructions. :) It says "Add below," not "DELETE." PM me with your arcade.php and I will make the edits for you..

lol I deleted one that I had used to install the older hack where there was a minimum post count.. Can you message me on AIM: Gamer Axis, or MSN: artofficialao@hotmail.com ?

00r did you have chance to write that IF ELS line for me ?

Very cool hack.

The install was flawless and very clear. Had it up and running in 5 mins just as noted.

Works like charm! Thanks 006!!

i have a problem... now i have hundreds of people just spam posting in oder ot get into arcade :(

Then ban them or ban a few as a warning to the others...

Nice hack.. Anyway to integrate this to work with a particular forum as well? I have a forum loaded with "pictures" that people will sign up to just view as well (instead of posting.)

* clicks install

Edit: installed and works flawlessly. Thanks! You saved me alot of time trying to write this myself! :D

:) Well it took me a long time. As for using it for a forum, I actually use a variation of it for many things on my board. It get's tricky though and I don't have time to support variations of it. Just look at the code. Basically you'll add the tables again with different names. Then add everything else again. You'll need an "if" statement asking for the forumid you want to limit access to. This will go in forumdisplay.php. That's off the top of my head so don't quote me on it. Like I said though I don't have time to create custom mods. :ermm:

~006

Hey thanks for that file edit. Although it DIDN'T fully work I am more pleased with the outcome than if it did. Now they have to have at least ten posts to play in the arcade AND they have to have 5 posts in 2 hours after that to play. :D Ty very much

NM.. was the code in acarde.php.. I edited it from monstercontrols which threw in some weird characters.. All better now.. :) ;)

Nah, it was actually pretty simple for what I wanted to do.. I just edited showthread.php and forumdisplay.php with something like:

and add a phrase to print_standard_error called notforyou.. ;) Thanks though..

Yeah Chevy, if you wanted to base if off of posts in the last x hours, you would just put my code in place of your if statement in those files. :)

And Flous, I thought that's what you WANTED it to do in the first place? Well either way it's good to know you like it how I coded it :) I must have misunderstood you. Oh well.

5 posts in 2 hours is just asking for spam... ;)

nm.. think I replaced the arcade.php with an old one when backing up..

Hi! I just had a guy sign up and play without posting. I emailed him to ask how but so far nothing. Has anyone else had this problem?

i get Database error in vBulletin 3.0.3:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT arcademinposts AS number FROM vb_33usergroup
WHERE usergroupid=6

mysql error: Unknown column 'arcademinposts' in 'field list'

mysql error number: 1054

Date: Tuesday 03rd of August 2004 11:31:50 AM
Script: http://teenagechaos.com/arcade.php?do=play&gameid=17
Referer: http://teenagechaos.com/arcade.php?
Username: Adam
IP Address: #######

pm with help.

You didn't run the query toa dd the field "arcademinposts." Read the instructions carefulyl and see if you missed any steps.

And Diva, I've never heard of that happening.. If you find out what happened, let me know and I will post a bug fix. I think it could be your installation though. Make sure you go through every step. Also make sure that you specified the minimum posts for your default usergroup that new users are put into..

installed and so far looks like its working fine :) Nice one ima click install :p

At first I thought I messed up something. Then after examining the code I realize what it was.

My original mod stops people from accessing the games.
This one stops from playing the games. So they still have access to view games and scores but can't play them.

Works with my heavily modded vb3. Thx

INSTALLS!!!

I am looking at adding this usefull hack to my forum but just need to check something.

running these queries as they are give me an error because I have a prefix on my forum of vb3_. I can edit the queries with no problem, but how much on the edited code do I also need to edit to get this to work, I can see a few references to 'usergroup[arcademinposts]' which I assume need editing, but what about the references to $usergroup['arcademinposts'] ??
regards
keith
REF: queries that fail
ALTER TABLE `usergroup` ADD `arcademinposts` INT( 11 ) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL ;
ALTER TABLE `usergroup` ADD `arcademintime` INT( 11 ) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL ;

I believe that if people have made two spam posts, and then got those posts deleted by staff, they can still play in the arcade.

Is there any way to check to see if the user has made two still-existent posts before letting him play?

vB3.03 Here.

Installed perfectly.

Works even better.

Thank you! It is what I've been looking for.

And yes, I whole heartedly clicked INSTALL!

Can you tell I am happy now?

:banana:

Clicked install, great hack. only one small problem.

http://upload.nemesisforums.net/user...teqz/code1.png


I'm sure it's not ok to remove it, so why is it showing up?

Nice Hack 006!

Works fine 4 me!

My users ask me, if there is a way to avoid the Hack, when a user have a defined Post Count!

Example: User have 200 Posts ---> He can play everytime and mustn´t have had 3 Post in 24 Hours!

Is there a way to code it?

bump for last two post. :)

well actually if you want to make it so that there is a required amount of post, you can create a new usergroup and make it a promotion group where it will promote someone once they reach a certain post level. I did that with avatars.

I know there's a few mods out there that restrict arcade access based upon amount of posts you create. However, I personally thought that this would just increase spam on the website.

So, is there a mod out there that restricts the amount of times games can be played per day. For example, you can put a limit of 50 per day and this would restrict everyone to playing games more than 50 times in any one day.

I assume this could be done by tracking how many scores have been recorded for a user within 24 hours or perhaps if they select the link to play the game?

Any help appreciated.

/me installs

Great hack! Thanks!

neocorteqz, I'm not sure why that is showing up.. I'm assuming you mean the functon text at the top? Anyway, I don't think that has anything to do with my hack, as nobody else has had that happen. Are you still having problems with it?

Hi,

I'm running vB3 3.0.5 and in the install docs it says:
// in admincp/usergroup.php
********
* FIND *
********
__________________________________________________ __

'profilepicmaxsize' => 25000

But I cannot find the variable: 'profilepicmaxsize' => 25000 in the file: admincp/usergroup.php

What do I do wrong?

/rjpa

Hi :) ... is there a way to exclude certain forums that people can post in. For instance, I want it to work where they will need 5 posts in 48 hours but I want to exclude forums that are just for games... is there a way to do this? By the way a big THANK YOU for this :)

Installed and it works great at my low carb board.

This is a great hack, but I don't think it works properly?

Although it DOES restrict access properly, here's the issue I noticed

We have several forums where you don't gain post counts with any replies or topics you make, yet people with a ZERO post count can make 2 posts in one of these forums and get access to the arcade?

This currently counts ALL posts. It pulls the posts from the database. I think it could be changed to not pull posts that didn't add to the user's postcount, but right now I don't have time to mess with that.

If somebody wants to look into it I can add it to the hack. :)