Topic: FaucetBOX.com Discussion - page 73. (Read 237020 times)

I think that I'm going to stop as well, right now I have a lot of traffic.
Thank you very much friend.

That's strange. Would you mind giving me the full error you are given, as well as what this function returns - var_dump($rewards);

It probably depends on how your faucet is coded, but no javascript should be able to get around a captcha AFAIK.

Of course you did lookup all the IPs, right?

Could you paste some of the IPs here? Thanks.

ok so I suspected a bad bot problem so I started rewarding 1-2 satoshi. I expected people to stop wasting their time only to be rewarded with such a little amount, other than the bots.  So today so far 14/01 I've had 3886 claims!



I suspect there is some javascript you can put into the url to bypass validation? Any help?

Thank you, unfortunately it didn't I, an error left me something like invalid parameters

Yes I am. It does look like that just wasn't sure if I could share exactly what I have there or not, but it does look like that.

Oops, I forgot about that. In order to have it display them properly you would need to move some things around, but it still isn't that difficult.

So, at line 2218 on your index.php we're going to get the user's country and such. Put this code there:
Rather than times everything individually, we're going to create a multiplier variable to times everything by.
Also, I noticed that I used 0.1 rather than 1.1 in my previous example. This would give 10% of the expected reward rather than 110%, so unless you want to decrease the reward the multiplier should always be greater than 1.

After this, at line 2232 (before if(count($rewards) > 1) {) add this code:
If I am right this will get every reward from the array and times it by the multiplier (therefore 1.1 (110%) if the user is in GB). I would appreciate if someone else could check this first before anyone puts it into any live code though, since I am prone to making mistakes when coding directly into BitcoinTalk.
 
After this, be sure to revert the changes at line 2310 to this:
Else the user will get the amount multiplied by more than you want, costing you money.

My apologies for not getting the code right the first time, I hope it didn't cause you any issues.

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Are you adding your cPanel name to the beginning of your user and name as described here? It should look like this:

$dbhost = "localhost";
$dbuser = "cPanelName_Nick";
$dbpass = "Password";
$dbname = "cPanelName_DogeFaucet";

So, changing the $display_errors to true didn't return anything (as far as I can tell) and have the dbhost literally as "localhost" as shown below. Still getting the error.

$dbhost = "localhost";
$dbuser = "Nick";
$dbpass = "Password";
$dbname = "DogeFaucet";

Thank you very much, and for example for that reward is see on the web? I mean that if someone comes from a country you see the reward that will win

It's likely the sql server you are pointing it to; different hosts have you point it to different places. I believe that Hostinger has you point it to mysql.hostinger.co.uk or something similar, where as BlueHost would want you to point it to 'localhost'.
If not, try setting $display_errors to true in your config.php and seeing if anything is returned.

OK so can anyone help me out? I'm trying to set-up a faucet using a database from my hosting provider (bluehost.com) and when I set everything up it tells me that it "Can't connect to database. Check your config.php.". I've set up a faucet from my free hosting (hostinger.co.uk) and have gotten it to work. Anyone know what's different about bluehost?

If it were there then it would send the coins before changing the reward making it useless. Place the $ret = $fb->send($address, $reward); below everything else, like so:

Would it be friend as well?

It also can get delisted if it returns any http error. It'll get back up soon.


Nastyhosts blocks cloudflare if you don't configure it properly in your faucet's admin panel. Use your "absolute URL" (it's a problem that's possible, it leaves you vulnerable), login to admin panel and read everything on the "Advanced" tab. If you don't understand what's written it, it's safer for you to not use CloudFlare.

Thanks for this tutorial I was looking for this.

I have used this one in the past. Was always happy to use it.
http://lite.ip2location.com

Genius thank you very much, I will check

Oh ok, now I understand.

Thanks for sharing your tips/code.

That requires a bit of extra modification to the FaucetBox file, but it isn't difficult. Personally I think the easiest way to do it would be by using a geoip API, however this may be inaccurate. The API that I'll be using in this example is freegeoip. This API has a limit of 10,000 requests per hour, so I can't imagine it would reach the cap for a faucet. Code is untested as always.

On line 2309 in index.php add this code to get the country code, since it's easier to use:
This will return the user's country code in ISO form, for example GB for United Kingdom.

You can then just check the country code before sending the reward and adjust the amount, for example:
This code would increase the amount given to any user in the United Kingdom by 10% (or the multiplier of 0.1). You could obviously go into detail a lot with this, but I'm not going to because the rest is self explanatory.

Another way that this could be done would be by using the geoip_country_by_name in PHP's geoip framework, however this framework may not be available to the majority of hosting users due to it having to usually be installed separately to PHP.

If you're using this though, you could probably just replace the first line of code with:
And it would likely return the same result.

I believe that some faucets use it to adjust rates due to advertising income. For countries such as Russia and Ukraine which bring in less money they get smaller rewards than countries like the US and UK which bring in more advertising revenue.

Since it requires an external API to be used, or more server usage on a service like NastyHosts, and I can't imagine it would be too easy to make a UI which would work well for a faucet owner to change countries' rewards. That and it could probably be abused by users using VPNs and Proxies to get larger rewards.

That country is you?
What is the base salary?
etc etc etc