PHPQA game play count exploitation fix

Ron — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:55:42 +0000

Few months ago I had a strange problem in my arcade gaming website Arcadevine. One day I was browsing my High Score Games website and accidentally found that the game play count of one game was suddenly increased by thousands in a matter of few seconds. I was very surprised because there was no traffic surge at that particular game page. I checked my server logs and found that my website received very little traffic at that time. I could not explain the problem and thought that probably the script has a bug. Arcadevine was build using PHP-Quick-Arcade script and I asked Jcink who was the creator of the script. He also has no clue of the problem. Anyway, I forgot about the incident until I saw the reoccurrence of the same problem again in a different game. I was confirmed that there must be some problem with the script. I checked all…

PHPQA sending score fix

Ron — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:07:54 +0000

If you are familiar with the PHP-Quick-Arcade script made by Jcink, you know there is a bug in that script about sending score. Basically, if you load multiple game pages and then play one earlier loaded game, when you submits your score in that game your score will be submitted to the last game you loaded earlier. This is a big glitch and need to be fixed. I was not aware of that bug until some of my members at arcadevine complained about it. After some experiments with the codes, I finally came up with a solution. I tested this fix in my high score games website and many of my members also tested it and told me that the glitch has been fixed. Since then nobody has ever complained to me about the sending score bug. Also, I have tested this fix various ways and I am sure that it works.

Previously I…

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