SMF Arcade

[snadge]

tried to post on forum and theres a terrible security question  "what is the name of our star or sun" ...lol... as far as im aware it doesnt have a name and if it does its not common knowledge! - i tried "sun" , "the sun" , "thesun" and kept saying its incorrect-  if your going to make security questions you should make them simple enough for joe bloggs to understand

Hi all

Iam using SMF 2.0.5 and I cant get the arcade mod too install, I have emulated the 2.0 RC5 version number but the test fails with some code in the ManageSettings.php file, when i insert the code Dreamweaver says "syntax error" so is unlikely to work so I didnt bother uploading the modded file


it says:

FIND:

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   );


   // Are we getting info for the help section.







PLACE BEFORE:

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      // arcade = arcade (makes sense, right?)
      'arcade' => array(
         'url' => 'action=admin;area=arcade',
         'settings' => array(
            'arcadeEnabled' => 1,
         ),
      ),

but heres whats at the bit it cant find:

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// Anyone who would like to add a core feature?
call_integration_hook('integrate_core_features', array(&$core_features));

// Are we getting info for the help section.

[Chalky]

Try "Sol" for an answer 

After backing up the file of course, I'd try:

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// Anyone who would like to add a core feature?
call_integration_hook('integrate_core_features', array(&$core_features)
      // arcade = arcade (makes sense, right?)
      'arcade' => array(
         'url' => 'action=admin;area=arcade',
         'settings' => array(
            'arcadeEnabled' => 1,
         ),
      ),
);

// Are we getting info for the help section.

[Chen Zhen]

snadge,

  I figured most people knew the answer to that question. Also I did not know the question for registration was enabled as the site has other anti-spam measures and I thought I disabled it.

  Anyhow, please use the version from this link:  http://smfarcade.info/forum/index.php?page=download
It should install on SMF 2.0.5 without issue. IBP2 games require the PDL hack which is located on the forum or from my site.

[snadge]

thanks - it installed fine but SMF reports its an older version?

can you explain what IBP2 games are?


thanks

[Sandmansa]

I tried installing the RC2 version of the arcade on my smf 2.0.5 forums and something must have gone way wrong.  It turned my test forum into a worthless and unusable arcade that had no games and couldn't add any either.  Only an empty arcade and a forum with no way to moderate or modify it.  All other menu selections were removed.

After double checking the manual install options, I found that the intaller only edited about 2/3rd of the forum files it needed to.  Yet the installer never detected that anything was wrong or showed any of the files it had missed in the test.  I believe the installer needs to be fixed before someone else makes the mistake and tries to install it on a very active forum.

[snadge]

...actually - its installed and now i can not uninstall it? ive started having issues since installing it but I dont think its related - think its to do with Tapatalk as pages keep saying "waiting on request" - used to say "waiting on tapatalk" (this is on chrome) if i do it on firefox it says waiting on tapatalk so ive disabled that mod

anyway there is no uninstall link on this arcade and it says its an old version? even when emulating SMF 2.0 RC5 it does not show an uninstall option?

i need to know if this can be removed otherwise i need to run a restore from softaculous (and lose posts )


edit just read above post - seems ive screwed my forum then?
edit: yup it has , im still getting that 'sending request' thing since installing it - luckily i backed up but posts have been made since and will be lost

[TheListener]

@Snadge Have you tried emulating any other forum versions?

[snadge]

he said i didnt have to and i didnt to install it so shouldnt to uninstall it and read the previous posters comments...its made a meal of my forum and ive had to restore

[Sandmansa]

I didn't emulate it either but it made a cluster puss of my test forum as well.  Thankfully, I played it a little smarter and installed a fresh forum base to test with.

[snadge]

my forum worked fine ..or so it appeared, but i hadnt got round to testing the arcade yet - ive restored and uninstalled Tapatalk and those messages have disappeared (so far) - they seem to be having issues as the chrome extension doesnt work either

what exactly did it do to your test forum?

luckily I backup before every mod install - but sometimes it might be hours or days before you realise theres an issue, ive restored mine

[Sandmansa]

For my test forum, it installed using the normal means.  Emulating was not needed to see the install option.  After it installed, my menu options changed.  There was only arcade and forum links.  Admin, moderate, profile and any other menu links were gone.  All I would be able to do would be change some arcade settings or read the forum.

I did try to manually remove it only to find that even admin no longer had the ability to login to do anything, other then just read.  So with no backup, I had no choice but to delete everything and start over.

[snadge]

hmmm well my forum (which is heavily modded with over 14,000 posts) worked fine after install... i didnt get around to testing it as i was doing other things and when i read your post i went to uninstall it and there was no option to uninstall, so i emulated SMF 2.0 RC5 (what you emulate to get the other version installed) and that didnt work either - so to be safe i restored my forum.... i always back up before mod install, I have softaculous on daily backups too

[Chalky]

I've just checked and SMF Arcade 2.5 RC2 is the same package I installed on my forum 18 months ago and have installed on a second forum since, now both running SMF 2.0.5.  It works perfectly well so I don't know what could have happened to make your buttons disappear Sandmansa.  Are you quite sure you installed the version linked by -Underdog- above?  I've just successfully installed a fresh download of that version and uninstalled it without issue.  Smooth as a baby's bottom 

snadge, yep, Tapatalk has been making my forum run slow all evening "connecting to activate.tapatalk.com", it did it a couple of weeks ago as well but only lasted overnight.  It is not related to the arcade mod 

[snadge]

does your arcade have uninstall option though?

[Chalky]

[uninstall] appears next to the arcade mod in my package manager, yes.  In fact on my heavily modded live site (75 mods installed) the install shows all tests successful, so it would be nice and clean.  I've proceeded with the uninstall on my test site.  Clean, no problems whatsoever.

[TheListener]

I've just checked and SMF Arcade 2.5 RC2 is the same package I have. (41 games too)

Also showing Uninstall.

[uninstall] appears next to the arcade mod in my package manager, yes.  In fact on my heavily modded live site (75 mods installed) the install shows all tests successful, so it would be nice and clean.  I've proceeded with the uninstall on my test site.  Clean, no problems whatsoever.

Try 80 mods Chalky. 

[Arantor]

-sigh- It's not the number of mods, it's the level of change applied. On the one site I have, I can guarantee that almost nothing will install any more, or uninstall because of the crazy number of changes that have been made. Whereas on other sites I have which have dozens of mods, most things install absolutely clean.

100 mods of little change versus 3 mods of enormous change and I know which I'd rather back.

If the uninstall button appears, it just means that the current emulation level is set to something the mod has listed, nothing more.

[Chalky]

It isn't a competition GOS    40 games + 4 Halloween games + 8 Christmas games that I'm saving for the season 

snadge, can you confirm which version of the arcade you actually installed?  It is this one you should be using.  It doesn't need emulating.

[TheListener]

It's not the number of mods

As if I didn't know that already.

It isn't a competition GOS   

Oh gods she's nagging again.

[Arantor]

Well, apparently you didn't, since you're going on about how many mods you have as if it's relevant... a single mod can screw up plenty of others, especially if it's a big complex mod.