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

[colicab-d]

Thnks 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

[Fluous]

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

[Fluous]

bump..

[007]

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.

[007]

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

[Fluous]

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

[RapCheck]

*clicked install*

great one!!!

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

[Fluous]

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.

[007]

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..

[Fluous]

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 ?