Scratch

Squawkers13 wrote:

nathanprocks wrote:

Ok so I am making a website and I want users to to have to login with their Scratch account. (Scratch passwords will not be stored. Only their uploads will.) That is not the problem. I done a quick Google Search and found the API. The problem is that I want only Scratchers to be able to upload. Is their a way to detect if a user is a Scratcher or New Scratcher?

Wow. I need this thread.
(as in, I want to try to do that!)

You mean make a login with Scratch thing? http://scratch.mit.edu/api/authenticate … demo%23123

There isn't any easy way of finding this -- everything is possible of course; if you can find one of their posts using the search feature and then parse the HTML to find the text "Scratcher" or "New Scratcher".

However what you can easily do (and what I have already done in the past) is check how many projects they have, and whether they have forum posts. 

Hardmath123 wrote:

...and since the rule for becoming a Scratcher relies on the number of projects and forum posts...

exactly    I was in a rush, but that's what I was going to eventually suggest.

So how many projects/forum posts does a New Scratch require to become a Scratcher?

If someone could write a PHP script to check if a user is a Scratcher or New Scratcher (or maybe just if the user is not a New Scratcher so it works for mods and the ST), that would help a lot. The script would only run once because the username and scratcher status would be stored in the database.

SJRCS_011 wrote:

nathanprocks wrote:

If someone could write a PHP script to check if a user is a Scratcher or New Scratcher (or maybe just if the user is not a New Scratcher so it works for mods and the ST), that would help a lot. The script would only run once because the username and scratcher status would be stored in the database.

Ah, but if a user is a New Scratcher, that user may be promoted to Scratcher sometime, so, ideally, you should run it in a cron job

I mean't that the user can only sign up if they are not a New Scratcher.

TRocket wrote:

this is the script the forums use to update users

I know that, but I am unsure on how to check if the account is 30 or more days old and have been active within the last 2 days.

jji7skyline wrote:

Maybe you could use spark's API for checking if the user has one project at least...

I can use the ScratchR API for that, but I need to check if the user's account is at least 30 days old and have been active within the past 2 days. 

TRocket wrote:

nathanprocks wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

Maybe you could use spark's API for checking if the user has one project at least...

I can use the ScratchR API for that, but I need to check if the user's account is at least 30 days old and have been active within the past 2 days. 

there's no way of finding when the account was created as far as i know, but you could cheat and find the date the user's first project was uploaded?

I guess I could but I just hate using date and time functions in programming. 

TRocket wrote:

nathanprocks wrote:

TRocket wrote:

there's no way of finding when the account was created as far as i know, but you could cheat and find the date the user's first project was uploaded?

I guess I could but I just hate using date and time functions in programming. 

IKR, especially PHP!

Ok, thanks for helping. I might try this tomorrow when I have all day to use the library's free WiFi hotspot.    It is 10:36 here and my mum keeps telling me to hurry up and go to bed lol.

Last edited by nathanprocks (2012-07-15 09:37:12)