What am I checking for? There's no vbookie option. I'm the admin and I have no option to change to an "enable vbookie" or anything like that in the usergroups.

I'll try the 4.09 thing.

opps that's the old version about usergroup sorry about that.

Got it working after updating to 4.09.

Ta.

very welcome sir.

Ok, I need some help. I just updated to 4.0.8 Vbull and as most of you know, that ++++ed some of the styles. I'm using one called Darkness that hasn't been updated yet so I've been changing the Stylevar line by line on my test server to figure out what controls what. I'm not very good at this, just doing what I can to make the live site look better. I think I got the home and forum pages looking pretty good but now I'm to the Bookie part of the site. I went though every line on the Stylevar to try to make it look better. I found 2 changes that change every link on the site including the Vbookie stuff. Not really what I want to do. Now I'm looking at the actual code from Vbookie and know I'm way over my head. :D

This is what I have right now. You can see the fighters names are just too light. I'm trying to figure out how to make this darker so it's actually visible.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2010/11/52.png

I also have a few other little things but that's where I would like to start. Any help or a push in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. I'm guessing I need to change one of the Blockrow calls but clueless to which one or even where to start doing that.

thankyou
Brian

The stylevar stuff does my head in. I'd probably just edit the vbookie_resultbits and vbookie_outcomebits templates and change the lines of

<a href="vbookie.php?do=viewitem&amp;item_id={vb:raw item_id}">{vb:raw outcome.outcome}</a>

to

<a style="color:#000000;" href="vbookie.php?do=viewitem&amp;item_id={vb:raw item_id}">{vb:raw outcome.outcome}</a>

so that the links a plain black.

not best practice, but it works in a pinch

thank you Dartho, I'll give it a try. I'm also going to play with a different style that's been updated to .8 and hope this darkness one is also updated. But again, thank you, I'll test it on my dummy site first.

Again, thanks Dartho, with what you have me, I was able to fix just about all of them. I had to change a few more than you listed to make it work for my site but giving me that code did wonders so thanks again.

This happens when the event is over. It display fine when the even is active.

Any ideas?

I'm missing something, what does it look like before, that looks fine to me.

This is what mine looks like.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2010/11/50.png

Hey Dartho, one more area I need help with if you can. The dropdown for Open, Close...
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2010/11/48.png

Do you know where the color is being picked up from on either the font or the background. I looked and or played with making changes in the
vbookie_eventresults_table
vbookie_main
vbookie_navbar_link

as those are the three that cover Abandoned but no luck.

The whole background should be white.

This is what a non closed event looks like

Oh, gotcha. Are you running Vbull 4.0.8? there are lots and lots of style issues now for me but no clue what you are fighting.

Yeah - sorry robbed, styling ain't my forte, hopefully someone else can help. i can only suggest what I did before for teh fonts, hard code colours if you can't find the relevant stylevars

thanks again Dartho, it looks like the style I use should be updated this week according with the author of it. I'm hoping that fixes the rest of my few issues. If not, I might have to hard code a few other spots on your mod but might need your help again finding the code if that's ok. This mod is one of the biggest reasons why I switched my site from PHPBB to Vbul.

Any chance we can get a new feature added? I'd like to see a one-on-one betting option. I want to be able to challenge someone to a bet on an event. That person can be alerted of the challenge and then accept or decline.

Additionally, the user can leave a challenge on the table for anyone to accept. (maybe have a link on our sig saying "bet me on the xx event! 50K")

Sorry - no chance of me adding that and very little chance of me adding much else which isn't trivial to this product.

Ok in vbookie_eventresults_table template. make this change.

Find

replace it with this.


PS dartho

Please make this change in the next release thanks.

thank you, this code fixed few other templates I had the same problem as well. lol:D

Thanks it worked

That's cool. Any chance for a Pro version?

This is a very popular little item, I definitely need to contribute some support to the developer!

I have two small suggestions:

(1) Is there a way to have a "leaderboard" ? a way to quickly list the top10/20 users as far as vCash? IE "Most Successful this weekend" ? That would be a big hit.

And

(2) I've ran into one snag: an admin test, create an event and then deleted the thread; but the "event" stays within the vBookie console, and we can't delete, close or edit it :(

An overall leaderboard would pretty easy, and the stats page altready shows top 5. Top 20 for a time period may also be possible - but I'd have to have a look first.

As for the orphaned event, I'm not sure how that happened. It has been reported once before so isn;t a regular occurence. Was it the same user that created and deleted the thead?

To remove it, you will need to edit the database.

Do you have access to phpMyAdmin? If so, look in the vbookie_items table for item_id n (check the value of item_id in the links to the event on the vbookie home page) and delete that row.

Got this message when I tried to go to the vBookie on my forum:


Warning: require_once([path]/includes/functions_vbookie.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/vbookie.php on line 74

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/*****/public_html/includes/functions_vbookie.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/*****/public_html/vbookie.php on line 74

I'm guessing I've uploaded it wrong or placed the file(s) in a different location. Any help?

You guessed right. Just start over by uploading the files again to your server.

Ok, I can take care of that. Yes, same user.. a mod was testing the script with vegas odds to see how the payouts worked, and just and an event "X -3 V Y" and then deleted the thread.. but the vbookie event stuck, and you can't go to info/thread on it because they don't exist.

Still having a problem with this.

It is completely random but every once in a while the credits are not removed from a user when he makes a wager.

No one else has this prob?

Which Template do you do the above?

Been using this mod for quite a while now and think it's great.

I was wondering if there are any plans to expand the functionality so that creators of the events can accept the responsibility for settling the book, and of course, keep losing bets.

We have a gambling related forum and many of our members fancy themselves amateur bookmakers.

It would add an extra element of realism for the serious gambler :)

You mean that money goes in and out of their own account balances?

Yes, just like that.

This would be optional on the event settings of course, but if a user could create the event and have to float the bets of others from their own cash.

Then they receive losing bets directly in to their account and have to pay the winners once the event is resolved.

I think this would add just the kind of risk/reward structure many gamblers look for.

As it so happens, I have it configured this way on my site - but it applies to ALL books, not as a book by book option. If you like I can work out and put up the instructions for making it work this way, but I'm sorry to say I won't be adding it as a book by book option.

Ah that sounds awesome.

Yes please :)

I was only really considering the optional setting as a mass market inclusion. I'm sure all of our members will much prefer the personal risk element.

Don't put yourself out too much, but I would greatly appreciate the instructions when you get the time.

Cheers!

that's pretty cool. Not sure if I would use that or not since I do all the bookies but I also bet a lot also. I would hate to run out of money if the field does really good. But it is very interesting. Never thought about being the actual bookie. I guess I could front myself some Crypt Cash as needed. :D

My site is under vb3.8 - just tried it on a 4.1 test site and have a few issues (when abandoning events), so will look into it more, but certainly is possible...

Nice one dartho. I've just upgraded to 4.1.

What currently happens on your board if the bookie is not able to cover an events winnings?

my bookies go into negative should things not go their way, but for the most part, they are virtual billionaires!

Are they allowed to bet on their own events?

they are, but given teh money comes out of their pocket, and goes back into their own pocket they always have a nett gain/loss of zero as they are betting against themselves :)

Sorry, how do you make their Vbookie amounts appear underneath their post counts (or wherever)? I've clicked the "appear in post bit" to yes in the options section but to no avail.

Thanks.