v3Arcade - new look to your arcade main page

As I was asked about this one
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These hack adds new look to your arcade main page.

Files to edit: 1
Templates to edit: 2


Very easy to install... Just 2"
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Find in arcade.php

	// Gets all of the games
	while ($game = $DB_site->fetch_array($result_allgames)) {
		$gamename = $game['shortname'];
		if ($gamecache["$game[shortname]"]) {
			$game = $gamecache["$game[shortname]"];
		} else {
			// the game has never had a score recorded
			// $extra is used as a conditional for the arcade_main_games_bit template
			$extra = 1;
		}
		if (strlen($game['username'])>12) {
			$game['username'] = "<font size=1>".$game['username']."</font>";
		}
		if (($game['gamesettings'] & 1)&&($g >= $startingfrom && $g<$upperlimit)) {
			eval('$gamebits .= "' . fetch_template('arcade_main_games_bit') . '";');
			exec_switch_bg();
		}
		if ($game['gamesettings'] & 1) {
			$g++;
		}
		unset($extra);
	}

and replace with

	// Gets all of the games
    $gamebits .="<tr>";
	while ($game = $DB_site->fetch_array($result_allgames)) {
		$gamename = $game['shortname'];
		if ($gamecache["$game[shortname]"]) {
			$game = $gamecache["$game[shortname]"];
		} else {
		// the game has never had a score recorded
		// $extra is used as a conditional for the arcade_main_games_bit template
		$extra = 1;
		}
		if (($game['gamesettings'] & 1)&&($g >= $startingfrom && $g < $upperlimit)) {
                if(!(($g+1)%4))         $nextrow="</tr><tr>";
                   else     $nextrow="";
		eval('$gamebits .= "' . fetch_template('arcade_main_games_bit') . '";');
			exec_switch_bg();
        }
		if ($game['gamesettings'] & 1) {
			$g++;
		}
		unset($extra);
	}
    $gamebits .="</tr>";

Change your "arcade_main_games_bit" template to the attached.

And edit "arcade_main" template around $gamebits
to change every newrest colspan="4" to your number of columns

       
        <tr align="center"> 
          <td colspan="4"  class="thead">total games: $gamecount </td>
        </tr> 
        $gamebits
        <tr align="center"> 
          <td class="thead" colspan="4" align="left">

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Thats all!

You can easy to make your own number of columns

Don't forget to edit number of games per page!

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Forget to say if you want to include info about the game size

you need to edit the game table in your DB

ALTER TABLE `games` ADD `filesize` INT( 10 ) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL ;

and after new game instalation to use game_size.php

[Vevina]

sweet installed

[axi]

how can we store game_size.php so nobody can run it? Can we rename it or store it in admincp folder?

[MortysTW]

Love this hack. ITs perfect. Thanks!

But I have the Categories mod installed and this Mod worked perfectly even with this Categories Mod. So that's not my issue. My issue is that the Categories Mod takes away listing of any game on the main entrance page to the arcade.php that visitors first see when they hit the arcade.

I would like to get this mod to also display on my main Arcade page below the list of categories. Can you help me out? I couldn't figure out which mod page would be better to post this question at.

[steadicamop]

I can't find this code, I've even tried searching for the three top lines individually and nothing came back

	// Gets all of the games
	while ($game = $DB_site->fetch_array($result_allgames)) {
		$gamename = $game['shortname'];
		if ($gamecache["$game[shortname]"]) {
			$game = $gamecache["$game[shortname]"];
		} else {
			// the game has never had a score recorded
			// $extra is used as a conditional for the arcade_main_games_bit template
			$extra = 1;
		}
		if (strlen($game['username'])>12) {
			$game['username'] = "<font size=1>".$game['username']."</font>";
		}
		if (($game['gamesettings'] & 1)&&($g >= $startingfrom && $g<$upperlimit)) {
			eval('$gamebits .= "' . fetch_template('arcade_main_games_bit') . '";');
			exec_switch_bg();
		}
		if ($game['gamesettings'] & 1) {
			$g++;
		}
		unset($extra);
	}

Any help plz

[Polo]

try looking for this line:

unset($extra);

this line has to be there...

[steadicamop]

Believe it or not ... it's not there, just searched through arcade.php - not found

[Polo]

really?? mmm... did you modified the arcade.php file alot?

[1nf3rn0]

Originally Posted by JasonWilliams

Believe it or not ... it's not there, just searched through arcade.php - not found

are you using an editor?..or just notepad or wordpad?..if usin any of them, make sure you are searching in the opposite direction from where your cursor is placed...please take no offense...ive just done this before...

[steadicamop]

I did the changes remotely via ftp .... I used CuteFTP's built in editor, that's pretty darn handy too.

I've not hacked the Arcade at all .. only for the resolution selection for the games, that's the only one installed.

I might just download the original arcade.php and see what happens if I replace it for the current one.

[waza]

You will probably need the latest version of v3arcade, v1.0.3.
The lines aren't there in v1.0.0,

Now for my problem:
I can't get the layout right, the page is totaly messed up.
So can somebody who has only installed this modification on v3arcade, share his arcade_main template?

Thx,
seba