AV Arcade 5.6 released

[Badger]

Always have been Bad Wolf I just try and keep work and play separate.
Started playing with AV shortly after getting my job at FOG to learn more about the arcade industry and how everything works

[Bad Wolf]

Always have been Bad Wolf I just try and keep work and play separate.
Started playing with AV shortly after getting my job at FOG to learn more about the arcade industry and how everything works

Wow cool job bro! Yes, I remember well when you came to the arcade industry as a site owner. Do you still run Badger Likes Games? I havent heard you mention that site since you picked up P.D.G.

Anyway back on topic lol. It is good to know the we have an AVA user that has a direct connection to our new game feed. Maybe we can actually have one now thats going to stay working. And have some kind of response from the company when its not. Poor Andy has gone through hell with some of these guys.

[mikestar20]

Hi, this should be included in the update -
Delete image and file from database when a game is deleted from Submissions.

[Badger]

Wow cool job bro! Yes, I remember well when you came to the arcade industry as a site owner. Do you still run Badger Likes Games? I havent heard you mention that site since you picked up P.D.G.

Anyway back on topic lol. It is good to know the we have an AVA user that has a direct connection to our new game feed. Maybe we can actually have one now thats going to stay working. And have some kind of response from the company when its not. Poor Andy has gone through hell with some of these guys.

It was actually me that asked Andy to put our feeds into this script lol. Since then we have worked together a fair bit, mainly him finding issues on our end and us fixing them lol. But yeah FGFYW is one of my babies, I will be taking care of it and doing everything in my power to make it one of the best (working) feeds possible. Once we fully complete the feeds you guys may even get a simple version of our high score API... at some point lol
I still have BadgerLikesGames but I see that as something I learned from, the domain will expire pretty soon. PlayDefenseGames is the only one of my own that I'm working on right now. Also started that one from scratch, well from a new domain and AV Script lol. But it seems to be going OK so far

[rocknroller]

thanks for update. Btw why you think playtomic feed does not work? First few games on list does not it's true but look

[Irvin]

everything works fine except for the date and some settings that dont get saved when i press "Save Settings". How can i fix this issue??

Thanks In Advance

[Andy]

Were you running version 5.5? Or a previous version? If you were running 5.5 was the date option working before?

[korabeca]

Nice job I like the new changes

[d22009]

Andy were do i put the template update ?

[zaza]

I enter my license key but it dont works... why????????

[lee605]

Nice release Andy!

[thewolfydragon]

odd.


i uploaded the admin files and the other files and replaced everything.. i uploaded the install folder to upgrade..

but i get errors trying to upgrade from 5.5.1 to 5.6

AV Arcade: Upgrade from 5.5+
Error on sql 1: Table 'ava_spil' already exists

what do i do?

[Andy]

Please ask for support in the support forum, it's hard to keep track in here.

thewolfydragon - If the table ava_spil already exists you must have already tried to run the installer at least once before. You likely got another error when you first tried. Is your site working fine?

[Mukelo]

This is how I fixed the foreign character problem, I have still an older version of AV Arcade installed (no mb_strlen check), but this can be easily adapted to the new code.

function shortenStr ($str, $len) {

  if (strlen($str) > $len) {
    $str = utf8_encode(substr(utf8_decode($str), 0, $len));
    $str = substr($str,0,strrpos($str,' ')); 
    $str = $str."…"; 
  }
  return $str;
} 

For SEO reasons, I have added a check for a whitespace so that the string will not be stripped in the middle of a word.

EDIT: the important part is:

$str = utf8_encode(substr(utf8_decode($str), 0, $len)); 

For foreign characters, in core.php

// Shorten string function
function shortenStr ($str, $len) {
    global $setting;
    
    if (strlen($str) > $len) {
        if ($setting['use_mb_strlen'] == 0) 
            $str = substr($str, 0, $len)."…";
        else
            $str = mb_substr($str, 0, $len, 'UTF-8')."…";
    }
    return $str;
} 

replaced with this code makes it work by default, no "�".

// Shorten string function
function shortenStr ($str, $len) {
    global $setting;
    
    if (strlen($str) > $len) {
        if ($setting['use_mb_strlen'] == 0) 
            $str = mb_substr($str, 0, $len, 'UTF-8')."…";
    }
    return $str;
} 

[ArcadeArena]

Thank you for the update!

[belami25]

Why it requires a password to open the zip file while I am a customer?
Before, there was no password to open the zip file, with previous updates, so why now?
give me an explanation, or give me the password, thank you

[mikestar20]

Is it required to run installer for updates?
Also, I'm on 5.5. Is it necessary to update to 5.5.1 and then to 5.6?
What should be upgraded first - template or av ?

[Andy]

belami - There's no password on the zip

mikestar - You need to run the installer for major updates. Look in the readme, it'll tell you what to do.

[OsiriX]

Hello

I've just found a small bug. It's actually also in all previous versions of the script.
It's in includes/misc/search.php, the code on line 26 and 27.

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM ava_games WHERE description like \"%$trimmed%\" OR name like \"%$trimmed%\" AND published=1
ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT $from, $template[games_per_page]");

Now it's also showing the games which are not-published when the descriptions is like the search-term.

It should be:

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM ava_games WHERE (description like \"%$trimmed%\" OR name like \"%$trimmed%\") AND published=1
ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT $from, $template[games_per_page]");

[Irvin]

Were you running version 5.5? Or a previous version? If you were running 5.5 was the date option working before?

No, since i upgraded to 5.4 and up the date option wasnt working. Also some of the settings on the settings page dont get saved when i press on "Save Settings"