VirtualTrader - A Web / PHP Game where users trade Realtime stocks with Virtual Money !

Changelog:

• Cron script can only be executed by local system to reduce server load
• Email activation sytem in place. User cannot login without having activated his / her account
• Added search functionality, placed search form in main menu. CSS still needs tweaking
• resetpass.php modified to add reset hash expiry functionality. The reset hash expires after 24 hours via cron job
• updatestocks.php became cron.php, the sitewide cron job handler... It now handles reset hash expiry (over 24 hours) and updates stocks DB
• Fixed Random String generator
• Fixed Reset Password Hash error
• Fixed a null stock purchase bug with PHP float (Ex: float(0.7) = 0 -> You have purchased / sold 0 stocks)
• Fixed an XSS vulnerability with Usernames (Thanks to GreenBean for finding that)
• Disallowed the purchase / sale of 0 stocks / negative quantity of stocks (Thanks to GreenBean for finding that)
• Decimal quantities (ex: 0.2) are now rounded up / down using php round() (Thanks to GreenBean for finding that)
• Added recentactivity.php
• New table in MySQL Database - activity_log
• Fixed the too many digits after the decimal point in user balance bug
• No longer showing inactive users in Leaderboard (Users with original 200 $
• Stocks now show in Alphabetical Order
• Moved to the Google Finance API

Cron Job Info :

The /includes/cron.php script should be run every 5 minutes to update the stocks database, and also expire reset hashes over 24 hours old. On a linux system, you an add a cron job by using crontab -e via SSH terminal

Once inside the Crontab editor, add the following line :

5 * * * * /usr/bin/php /LOCATION/TO/VIRTUALTRADER/includes/cron.php >/dev/null 2>&1