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

[SnowBot]

well i will be the first to say THANKS

[SnowBot]

small question before i install, if i have a min post required to enter the arcade via another user hack will this only then take effect after that post count has been made?

[007]

Most likely yes. They shold both work together just fine.

[Osterling]

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /ww.exasko.info/forum/arcade.php on line 515


any idea what the problem is? and if ur qondering this is line 515

$minimumposts = $DB_site->query_first("

[007]

Sounds like you didn't add the tables. Make sure you add both queries. I have this running perfecty and exactly the same as the install file shows. Make sure you follow the install. Let me know if you still have trouble after double checking the instructions.

[Osterling]

i doubled checked.. copied and pasted the querys in the run box..

[Osterling]

ALTER TABLE `usergroup` ADD `arcademinposts` INT( 11 ) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL ;

ALTER TABLE `usergroup` ADD `arcademintime` INT( 11 ) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL ;

those two i ran exactly liek that

[007]

Go to your usergroup manager and set values for the groups. Maybe I need to make the defaults greater than 0. Try setting values and try it then.

[Osterling]

i have both set up.. and yet i still get the error