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Limit amount of clicks per day

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? :)

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

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by SilverDragonTears (Post 19782)

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 Code:


		
			
<?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 Code:


		
			
<?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#

I'm not sure exactly where to put these?

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.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Csar (Post 19784)

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 Code:


		
			
<?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 Code:


		
			
<?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:

PHP Code:


		
			
    $blacklist = Aray(/*Terms that identify banned sites for example:*/ 'yarolds', 'google');

It should be this if I am correct:

PHP Code:


		
			
    $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.

How can I do this HoF?

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

PHP Code:


		
			
$result = runquery("SELECT * FROM {$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
}

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.