Limit amount of clicks per day

[SilverDragonTears]

I need to put a limit on the amount of times an adopt's level up link can be clicked. This is because some of my members are using Yarolds and leveling up their pets in a ridiculous amount of time ie: 5 minutes after catching an egg, their adopt becomes an adult. I don't want to increase the amount of clicks it takes to level up because most of my users do not use Yarolds.

Can anyone help me out with this? :)

[Slix]

You could do what I did and simply block incoming traffic from Yarold's.

[SilverDragonTears]

Oh please tell me how!! i'm not sure I'll go that route... but if I have to...

[Csar]

Oh please tell me how!! i'm not sure I'll go that route... but if I have to...

Well, you wouldn't need to "block" the users but simply not count if they're eing referred, If I'm right you could use something like this:


<?php
$blacklist = Aray(/*Terms that identify banned sites for example:*/ 'yarolds', 'google');
$click_allowed = true;
foreach ($blacklist as $disallowedpage)
if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERRER'], $disallowedpage) !== false) $click_allowed=false;
?>


Later you can just check against your prohibited pages, something like this

<?php
if ($click_allowed) echo 'This is a normal user';
else echo 'You should not use any click services';
?>


If you would like to limit the number of clicks everyday you would need to add an extra table to your MySQL.

Hope it helped

C#

[SilverDragonTears]

I'm not sure exactly where to put these?

[Nemesis]

lol wow so i wonder if people would be willing to pay for clicks. $0.10 cpm lol that i can actually provide. Though this doesn't help SDT's situation lol.

[Hall of Famer]

Well, you wouldn't need to "block" the users but simply not count if they're eing referred, If I'm right you could use something like this:


<?php
$blacklist = Aray(/*Terms that identify banned sites for example:*/ 'yarolds', 'google');
$click_allowed = true;
foreach ($blacklist as $disallowedpage)
if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERRER'], $disallowedpage) !== false) $click_allowed=false;
?>
Later you can just check against your prohibited pages, something like this

<?php
if ($click_allowed) echo 'This is a normal user';
else echo 'You should not use any click services';
?>
If you would like to limit the number of clicks everyday you would need to add an extra table to your MySQL.

Hope it helped

C#

This looks cool, but seems that you made a typo here:


$blacklist = Aray(/*Terms that identify banned sites for example:*/ 'yarolds', 'google');
It should be this if I am correct:


$blacklist = Array(/*Terms that identify banned sites for example:*/ 'yarolds', 'google');
But anyway I do not recommend the approach to block incoming traffic, since even without Yarold they can still find other ways to level up quickly. A better approach is to write a code that count how many clicks this very adoptable has received during the day and generates an error message if the number is above 10.

[SilverDragonTears]

How can I do this HoF?

[Hall of Famer]

Well this can be achieved by adding these lines somewhere in levelup.php:


$result = runquery("SELECT * FROM {$prefix}vote_voters WHERE adoptableid='{$id}' and date = '{$date}'");
$num = mysql_num_rows($result);
if($num >= 10){
$article_content .= "An error has occurred, this adoptable has been leveled up 10 times already today. "
}
else{
// codes to execute if the adoptable can be leveled up
}

[SilverDragonTears]

HoF... have I mentioned how awesome you are? Will this still allow them to get money for clicking on it? I'd want them to be able to.

[Hall of Famer]

umm I see, this can be done easily but is a bit difficult to explain. Send me your levelup.php file and I will try to get back to you by Thursday or Friday.

[SilverDragonTears]

Ok :) Also, I thought with the item shop you could trade items with other users?

[Hall of Famer]

Well the current itemshop is not integrated with trade system, even though this will happen with Mys v1.3.0 official release.

[SilverDragonTears]

Allowing 10 clicks sort of enraged a few of my members :/ So we won't be using this right now and are trying to come up with a new solution. Hooray for being an admin O.o

Could you look at my post in the sort thing? I need help with that quite badly. When you have time of course!

[Hall of Famer]

I see, you've got some very interesting members on your site I'd say. XD

And, well, I dont think I can help you with the sort adoptables Mod. My programming skills cover C, Ruby, PHP and Mysql, but AJAX is too much for me at least at this very moment.

[SilverDragonTears]

Oh man this is driving me insane. I can't understand why it won't work :(



EDIT.... Huh. I think I fixed it. I have no idea how... but I think I did.