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Chris Powell · Mar 31, 2007

Hi Nightrider – hope your ok dude.

I've had a few record labels emailing me saying that several of my members are tampering with the mix upload count system. Because each download counts as a hit it's easy for members to just keep downloading their mixes to increase their mix download count. They don't have to download all the mix all they have to do is right click save target as close then just keep repeating that process. I've tested it and it lets you do this. I wasn't aware of this until a few record labels emailed me about it. I thought Karlos would have set it so that only 1 unique ip address counts right from the start I'm not sure why he didn't do that, at a guess he didn't think of it or didn't know how to dontknow

Anyway, so my question is this, it possible to set it so though only one unique IP address counts as a hit. There maybe a way of doing this just by changing settings using phpmyadmin. I've had a look but haven't really got an idea of what to look for to do what I want it to do.

I really need to make the download system fair for all members, etc.

... headbang

Nightrider · Sep 25, 2004

The code would have to be modified to check the IP addy before updating the count. That probably means that another table would have to be created to store IP addies for what has been downloaded and check it before attempting to update the count...

Which of your sites is this happening on???

dontknow

Chris Powell · Mar 31, 2007

Ok. Any idea how to do this... ?

It's happening on the djpassion site...

Chris Powell · Mar 31, 2007

If this is possible, I'd like to get it done ASAP… before I upgrade the free mix hosting service. I’m going to up it from 120MB (approx. 2hr mix) to 250MB (approx. 4hr mix) going by 128 bitrate this is. I'd also reset all download counts too.

banana

Nightrider · Sep 25, 2004

This code is nearly impossible for me to follow. I just don't have the tools to debug code like this...

I think the download process is taking place in the includes/tng/triggers/tNG_Download.class.php file, but I really don't know if the IP addy is known at that point and if not, how to retrieve it. There is a function named incrementCounter which probably increases the counter for the number of people who have downloaded the file, so any new code would probably belong inside of that function. The code is extremely obscure...

Brick wall

Chris Powell · Mar 31, 2007

Ok so that’s a no go then violent1

How about instead of displaying the top 5 downloaded mixes on the homepage have top 5 recent mixes added!?!?

By the way I’m going to get DanceAirwaves on the go. I'm not waiting any longer for Karlos. Just waiting time LOL. Anything that you need to reverse back or anything

Thanks for your help nightrider

Chris Powell · Mar 31, 2007

Chris Powell · Mar 31, 2007

i keep seeing this copyright message in a lot of the files

Chris Powell · Mar 31, 2007

checking this out now http://www.interaktonline.com/Products/Online-HTML-Editor/KTML-for-Dre amweaver/Documentation/

Nightrider · Sep 25, 2004

I'm really not sure what the KTML editor buys you. First, it sounds like you have to have Dreamweaver in order for it to work. I've seen Dreamweaver cause problems in phpBB files by adding double and triple spacing where it didn't belong. It really messed up the files on several sites that I worked on, so I discourage the use of Dreamweaver. I don't know if it was a setting problem in Dreamweaver or if Dreamweaver always makes a mess of non-Dreamweaver text files like phpBB files...

What are you planning to do with the DanceAirwaves site???

dontknow