problem saving scores
 

It didn't used to do this, but now whenever someone trys to save their score in a game instead of going to the highscores page it goes to the homepage.

What could be the problem?

TIA.

Read the (INFO - vbadvanced or another Portal.txt) that comes with the arcade...

Thank you very much. I didn't realize that that would cause a problem but it works now.

Thanks. :)

I have that already in but using IE a lot os scores are not submitting. Firefox seems to be ok though.

is it sure and re-producable that only IE has that problem ?

IE6 or IE7 ?

If so, I'd like to add some debug-info to your site and work on a fix for this...

Ie 7. If I use firefox the vast majority of scores submit (99%+). But IE 7 it is about 50% at times. Also when using IE and playing a game it is reloading the page every 15 seconds or so. Not sure why. Edit: Actually I just tested it again and it seems the first 3 or 4 scores go in ok but then they stop submitting.

I am willing to let you do whatever to find the problem.

Ok, I have Firefox and IE7 here, please contact me via PM and provide AdminCP+FTP access so I can hunt down this problem. I also need one additional account being a normal user for testing.

Let me know which games have this problems, thanks

ok.

All of the games tbh, IE 7 doesn't like this for some reason.

Most of my users always say that their scores dont submit too, any update on this problem?

Hi, same problem here.

My members and I have done a bunch of testing on the issue, and it's definitely an IE cookies problem. Games are being recorded 99+% of the time (as mentioned above) in FireFox, but a user's second score for any game is not being saved when using IE. The message reads:

"This score was not submitted from the game. Your score will not be saved."

MrZeropage, here's a link to the bug report thread in my forum:

http://forum.usgamers.net/showthread.php?t=222

...hopefully that helps a little. Also, I believe "Zurvan" (the admin) had sent you a PM with FTP/adminCP access in it.

Thanks,
J

not sure if its the same but i have users who keep having scores not saving. It seems to be losing the session ID

for me the page reloads while you are playing the game i assume to keep the session alive but for some people this method isn't working and they get timedout while still playing the game!

We originally thought it was a session ID, page reload, or timeout issue as well...

But try using IE. You'll see that the system religiously saves the user's first score of a session and NOT any scores after that (regardless of the time taken to play a game).

Actually it might be a server issue or something, my arcade suddenly fixed itself without any alterations. It is a bit of a mystery.

Peter,

What kind of server issue. We've been at this for a while now and still can't get scores to record properly in IE. It sucks big time because that's holding up progress at so many levels. :(

MrZero,

Any update on this? Did you get Zurvan's PM with FTP + Admin access?

For some reason, I'm having the same problem, AGAIN, after it was fixed. I just checked my index.php and it has the arcade code added to it at the top like it says.

What could be wrong now? My members are complaining. :(

I hope there is a simple solution to this problem like the last time.

Oh I did edit my forum.php file (the default vBulletin index.php) to work with a custom hack of mine. Would that affect it or is it unrelated?

Thanks in advanced.

EDIT: I was able to fix it. In my .htaccess file, I had it so index.php redirects to my root, which the arcade apparently doesn't like. I removed that part of my .htaccess and its fine now.

always realize that games do submit their score to index.php :)

Thanks. Is there any way to make it so games use a different file to submit? Or is that too complicated?

Thanks for your help. :)

this is hardcoded in the converted games, so no chance to change it

Ah, ok. Thanks. I was actually able to fix it by tweaking a few things in my .htaccess.

So how do you fix it then please tell us what you did like in steps cause i get it sometimes

If you want index.php to redirect to the domain root like me, but still want your highscores to save, you need to remove anything that redirects your index.php from .htaccess currently, then add:

This will 301 redirect index.php to your root while still allowing the arcade to use index.php.

AJ

In english. Sorry im a noob?