Require X posts in the last Y hours to play games in the arcade

Require X posts in the last Y hours to play games in the arcade

by ~006

Let me start out by saying that I made this hack for the V3Arcade system. All credit for that hack goes to John. If you can think of any other pages that this limitation hack could be used for, let me know and I can code it.

I know ever since the V3Arcade was released, we all have been noticeing new members signing up only to spend time in the arcade. They may post once or twice, but for the most part they do not post. Instead they just suck your bandwidth. What can you do about this? Well, with this hack you can customize the number (x) posts required in the last (y) hours. This is all on a per usergroup basis.

There are other ways people have been doing this, such as base arcade access on postsperday. This is a bad way to do this because if somebody goes out of town for a week, their posts per day will suffer. Soon it becomes impossible to get your posts back to the minimum posts per day level. This hack is fair to all members based on usergroups.

This hack adds two new usergroup fields, and adds the option to edit these fields directly form your admincp. It is very self explanatory.

The hack may not seem like much, but I put a lot of time into it, so I would appreciate it if everyone would click install!

PLEASE CLICK INSTALL! That's all I ask.

*Please do not edit or redistribute this hack without my permission. Thanks!

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Queries: 2
File edits: 2
New Phrases: 1
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TOTAL INSTALL TIME: ~5 minutes or less

~006

[007]

What version of VB3 are you running? I am using 3.01. I noticed at least your profile shows 3.0. Perhaps upgrading first wouldn't be a bad idea?

[Osterling]

has anyone else got this to work?

[Rampag33]

I definitely need this. I had the same problem too.

[SnowBot]

Installed and no errors, now just to hang about for 24h to see if the 2 hacks work together, the first hack worked by saying i have not got enough posts.

Set to 2 posts in 24h

/me clicked installed already

[007]

It's dynamic. Set it to 30 posts in 24 hours temporarily for your usergroup and try playing a game. Basically, it runs a query and counts your total posts in the defined period of time. No need to wait to see results. Should take effect immediately.

I have added a step in the arcade.php edits. My appologies. Redownload the file and look at the arcade.php edits. You may have to clear your history to get the most recent file. Sorry for the extra troubles! Everything should work fine now.

~006

[Osterling]

i am running none extra hacks for arcade...

all i've done is made a post requirement for user groups to be able to play in it.. but that shouldn't be causin a problem

[SnowBot]

hhhmm infact i got the error now.

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/synergy4/public_html/forum/arcade.php on line 527

[007]

I updated the install file. Did you rehack the arcade.php edits? It should work now.

[SnowBot]

Originally Posted by 006

I updated the install file. Did you rehack the arcade.php edits? It should work now.

so its just the added

// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################
require_once('./global.php');

part ?

[007]

Correct. I forgot to put that in the install file. It's been added now though. Try that and let me know how it works