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]

Originally Posted by SilverDragonTears

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#

[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]

Originally Posted by Csar

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.

[SilverDragonTears]

How can I do this HoF?

[Hall of Famer]

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
} 


[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.