It sounds like you may not have made the games active (an option under each game in the Admin CP).

Which file are you running SQL queries from?

My users are cheating the arcade simply by editing the url is there a way to prevent this?

Example

http://www.limpkinw.com/forums/proar...abf39dd76dd245

Will submit a score of 1100 in blackjack or if you edit the score variable it will submit the score of your choosing. Can this be prevented?
Thanks

Ah, that fixed it. Thanks:)

Any idea when a Mozilla/Mac compliant version will be available? No scores for me:( (mac)

This is fixed in the next version. In the meantime you could add a simple check like this, near the beginning of proarcade.php (must be after the $gameinfo query for this to work):

// security check for HTTP_GET
$strippedvar = substr($gameinfo[scorevar],1);

if (isset($_GET[thescore]) or isset($_GET[$strippedvar])) {

// output some message if desired, like:
echo "Cheater!\n\n";
exit;

}

That should prevent anybody from entering a score variable in the query string.

Cool, woudl there be a way to add the players who try this to a list...or page...just the basic idea and i can take it from there :)

You have have to add a field to the database somewhere and then add a query to the above code (between the brackets) to insert some information into that field. Or actually, to make it easier, you could just have the system send you an email when this happens. Take a look at this section of the PHP documentation:

http://us4.php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php

You could include the date, time, user's name and query string in the email, so you'd get all the info.

Hope that helps.

i think i have the query right, and its inserting a "counter" inot the database. Now i am trying to make a page display the cheaters...kinda like the store top 10...Working on it if I get it workin I can post here for evaluation/sharing purposes.

I got a problem with changing a game's champion text. Whenever I change the text and submit the changes it always goes back to just "t". Any ideas? :confused:

It is possible only to clear a part of the scourboard ?
I dont want to clear the topscore...

Please help... Thanks Mäuschen.

Greetings,

Could anyone please help me, I'm trying install this hack on version 2.3.3, and I always come up with this error:
on /admin/ and when I insert my user and password and click enter it only shows up this error

yet i can see very quick when it backing to the log in menu more errors, but too quick for I paste here :(

This happens when I try go to step 4 also known, template instalion.

Thank you in advance.
Regards

Anybody know if this hack will work with 2.0.x or if I shouldn't even try to install it?

Why dont you install it on a test board 1st to see if it would work?

someone...... please?

I fixed my previous error :)
but, now after all is installed, for some reason the games aren't loading, just show the black screen on their place and looks take ages to load, yet they don't, any ideas how to fix this? :)

Thank you in advance :)

See, been answered before loads of times ;)

lol, Thank you, I had watched that after replyed (it was too many posts that I didn't have the time to look them all ;) ) just noticed that one after reply and forgot said its fixed.

Regards.

Hey no problem. Is alot of hacks to look through isnt it ;)

Least you got it fixed now, Enjoy the Arcade :p

1. Because I don't have a test board.
2. I asked the question to find out.
3. I add all my hacks on the fly straight onto my public forums.
4. I'm not setting up a test forum just to test it.

do I really need to ask a 3rd time?

:cool:
This is excellent news for us Mac users.
How much of the games code will have to be modified?
And I think requiring the latest flash plug-in won't be a bad deal.

is Beta 2 the only version for VB 2.3?

will there be any releases for the
upcoming VB3.xx?

Thanks
http://www.forumschat.net

why is everyone ignoring my problem?

For anyone that is having problems with the champion text/images...I looked through a lot of posts and saw questions but no real answers to why they weren't appearing. I could not get mine to appear...I had "champion system" and image enabled for some of them but I guess at some point I deleted the champion image from my first game. Once I added that image all the images and champion text showed up. Whether it was a fluke or what I'm not sure but if you're having problems its worth a try to make sure that all the games, especially the first one, have the champion system enabled and an icon added.

Wow, not to get off topic but.. your awfuly pretty to be a gammer/webmaster... I guess its just rare :P Alot of gamer chicks are ugly anti-social loosers.. Then again, alot of gamer guys are too.. lol

I know..... I'm a computer nerd :x

It would be great if I could figure out why my champion text is always "t".... cause I looked thru everything and cant find anything wrong :rolleyes:

If you wanna help me, I'm on AIM and ICQ and MSN

MSN: Kristina0074@msn.com
AIM: Kristina0074
ICQ: 108316844

all taken care of ;)

Actually, I've found quite the contrary most femme gamers I've come across are pretty darn attractive they're just closet losers like me :p

Mad - Did you trying going into the db to try and manually change it? Not an easy way by any means, but I know there was at least one instance where I went into the db with phpMyAdmin because the admin cp just kept kicking out the original value everytime I tried to submit a new one. It's a beta so I figure whatever I can finagle around to make it work, is great, its the ghetto way about it but whatever... :p

I went ahead and did it for her :)

and im grateful :p

I have everything working ....'cept I can't figure out how to get the arcade to work with my theme(surge from vbskins). Proarcade can be used with any theme(skin) right?? If not what needs to be modified? It works fine with the default theme.

Thank you
Deffy

Well I installed Pro Arcade and when I go to the admin Pannel for it I get this error

I went to myphpadmin and checked and the SQL quiries are there but the SQL Database has a diffrent name than the one above. So I went to the config.php file and changed it (backed up the original) to the correct database/username/pw and loaded it up.

The whole site went down. I loaded the orgiginal config.php file and every thing came back, but I still have the problem with the arcade hack pointing to what the config.php file says is the corect SQL but myphpadmin says is incorrect. How do I get the Pro Arcade to look to the correct SQL Database and still have a working site?

DigiKilla

I have searched this thread for about an hour trying to find someone with the exact same problem or a solution to adding games. Everything works fine with the arcade except that when i try to edit a game or add a game I get an error. This is the error that i recieve when trying to add a game.
Anyone know what the problem might be?

CODE:

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.3.3:

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objectparam,embedparam,championactive,championtext ,championcolor,playcost,jackpo t,jackpotadd,thumbnailname,thumbnaildata)
VALUES ('asteroids','Asteroids','A Great Arcade Classic.','asteroids.swf','0','$asteroidsscore','' ,'','','',
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mysql error: Unknown column 'width' in 'field list'

mysql error number: 1054

Thanks,
Sidney

Hi,

this is your query:

There seems to be a problem with the list of your parameters. Do the following command in the command line and compare the paramaters:

You should see the table arcadegames and all corresponding fields. Compare these fields with query i quoted and you should find your problem straight away.

Cheers,

Pseudomizer

Thanks for the assistance,

I have done this and added the columns "height" , "width" , "codebase" , "querystring" , "objectparam" in the arcadegames table, and it solved the problem of adding the new game, but for some reason it is not passing the score variables now. The game is Asteroids, and it just loads the blank leaderboard after the game is completed.

Hmmm. Then it's either the wrong variable for the score OR the hash is wrong. Please check with the corresponding game thread and the description for this specific game.

Cheers,

Pseudomizer

Any updates on v2.1 guys? Keep up the hard work guys. This is one of the best hacks I've seen.

I've worked out a lot of the template stuff and sent one update to future real, I'm hoping to get another done today. Although I haven't seen him online much this week, so not sure if we are just missing each other or not.

I have it setup here, the current version of 2.1 on the template side doesn't look much different, but how the arcade installs is much more stable and cleaner. I've tried to make the templates very easy to update for different colored layouts.

demo: http://www.orbsydia.com/forum/proarc...?action=arcade (vbproarcade 2.1 & vb2.3.3)

It looks very nice.... looking forward for it to get released soon. Good job! :)

hi,
i have an Error with Netscape after I play a Game then come Game Over and:
"vbProArcade Error: Invalid game name specified (todo: put something pretty here later)"
who can help me