Excellent stuff, thanks!

Could you clarify this a bit more? I want to set up a forum for only vbookie events but there are no settings in the adminCP for doing so? From the installation instructions I can see that there are no file edits to the admincp/forums.php file so I must be misreading the purpose or something...

Cheers,

~Regs.

Please check the contents of 'includes/functions_vbookie.php', in particular the vbookie_do_charity() function, and make sure that the first line of it says:

If it does, then please report back, and tell me what the values of uttpoints_pointtable and uttpoints_pointsfield are in your uTT Store settings.

Using the 'Usergroups' -> 'Forum Permissions' page, you can edit each user group, e.g. Registered Users, forum-specific permissions. You will get a warning that custom permissions must be enabled, but as long as you OK that, you can set up forum-specific permissions and restrict vBookie to that forum. You can make the same changes via 'Forums & Moderators' -> 'Forum Permissions' as well.

But you can only bet values of integers also..

i set up an event and the user i was on had like $3.50... i could only bet 1, 2, or 3

is this how its supposed to be?

Yes. It was designed to use its own vCash or integer points originally. uCash came later but it only made sense in the original version to bet with whole points. Everything's geared around integers, and most points systems are integer based.

Hello tjdrico

I will help immotive answer some questions since he is too busy and cant check here too often.

Yes, the global $DB_site, $vboptions, $vbookiesettings; is there under the vbookie_do_charity() function .

May i know where can i find out the utt store settings ? There are too many instances of uttpoints_pointtable and uttpoints_pointsfield in 'includes/functions_vbookie.php' .

In your AdminCP, under "uTT Store Hack", click on "uTT Point System Settings". The first two entries on that page are the pointstable and pointsfield settings.

For example, mine say 'user' and 'uttpoints'.

If they are correctly set, are you sure that your uTT Store hack is correctly installed? Is it working as expected in other instances?

Thanks for your hint, i made some mistake in my global.php

Another question - Is the tax a compulsary amount to have ? Cause i had noticed that quite a few items, by default come with a tax amount. Is it okay if we get rid of all the taxes ?

Thanks

you must be insane... how shall i translate that? dozens of templates, many phrases and some english text left in the file :(

Are you talking to me ? Kindly use a better tone towards me or anyone else

Shall i rephrase as "is it possible to use a 0 value inside the AdminCP Action Manager" ?

ops sorry, i forgot a ':D' after the '...' :(

installed, translated and running, thank you :)

vBookie imposes no taxes.

Sorry for the bits that aren't in templates or phrases. That was just laziness on my part. I assure you that all the templates and phrases are there for a reason though. =)

Can someone please tell me where/how I can hard code the userid of those I want to allow to post events? I don't want to risk the complications of setting up new usergroups, as some of those I want to post events are mods, some registered, etc etc. I don't expect this to be added to the hack, btu the knowledge would be useful to some. :)

There are probably a couple of places you should do this. The first would be in newthread.php

There'll be a section like this:

You could change that to something like:

Also:

To:

That should hide the checkbox for adding a new event from everyone but the allowed user.

Then, in vbookie.php, find the section that starts:

Then, below that, find the lines:

Change that to:

There will be a similar change to make in the section that starts:

Just search on 'CANPOSTVBOOKIEEVENT' to find the two locations.

I think that'd be enough, but it's just from my head and not tested in any way.

I keep getting the error

Parse error: parse error in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/forestforum.co.uk/httpdocs/forum/includes/init.php on line 516
Parsing functions.php Time before: 1087071117.6956 Time after: 1087071117.7328 Time taken: 0.037165880203247
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Processing sessions.php Time before: 1087071117.7334

which relates to this section

Any ideas?

I think the problem is this line:

Maybe you've edited it for some other hack, but I think it should be:

i.e. you've ended up with an extra ) in there.

excellent that sorted it - no idea how i missed that! :o

excellent hack by the way i'm sure it will become an essential part of my forum.

(clicked install)

I need this hack!! I attempted it, but i messed up on msot of the file eidts,

Is anyone interested doing the file edits for me? Just the include ones? I'll pay

Oops.. Didn't expect to get this..

Any ideal whats went wrong?

I don't have a lot of time to respond right now, but PM me and we can sort it out.

Did you edit the script in any way? Try re-uploading the original script. No one else has reported a parse error, so I'm assuming it's a mistake you've made. Which version of the file did you download? Are you sure it extracted OK and uploaded without errors? vbookie.php in version 1.0.3 should be 58,966 bytes according to my PC.

Is there a chance to allow commas? The odds for France beating England are 1.90 to 1 but vbookie changes that to 2 :(

Just make the odds 190 to 100...

Or 19/10. =)

hey cool, i'll do so. thank you :)

tjdrico does the back work like when people place a bet the money is subtracted from them first, then later when the event is settled, the money is kept or the odds will be paid out ?

also, if i create the events, will the money be deducted from me or the system ?

Seem like I've to create an event before proceeding any step further. And yes, I did, and now the problem are sloved! :D


Thanks for your reply anyway. :)

If I place a bet on an event, the stake is immediately deducted from me. That might mean I lose 50 uTT points, or 50 Petz points or 50 reputation etc.

When the bet is settled, if I lost I get nothing back. If I won, I get my winnings, plus the stake returned as well.

All bets are settled using an infinate supply of system points/money. I did think about making it so that there was a "system pot" or the administrator/event owner being liable, but it didn't seem to be as much fun as people would have to concentrate too hard on a) their odds and b) limiting the number of bets they accepted so all wins could be covered.

absolutely Fantastic hack great work

i would make a suggestion tho adding events to threads that don't already have them
like the add poll button on the forum drop down :)

Yep, fair point. I didn't actually realise one could add a poll to a thread like that until very recently when I stumbled upon it my accident. I have a few things I want to do for an update to vBookie, and I dare say this will be one of them.

i hope the updates easy to install hehe :p

hi tjdrico,

i think your betting system is great!

i have a some features for the next version that i would like to suggest:

1. admin able to assign credits to individual members. (i.e. members with higher donations to forum can get higher starting vCash, it also allows players who are bankrupt to come back into the game with a new donation.)
2. members are able to set up separate wagers with fellow members, subjected to credit limit bought/assigned by admin. win or loss are deducted from one another.
3. when members bet with one another (i.e. this allows members to side bet with each other, and to deduct directly from current top winners.), a portion of the proceeds goes to the admin.
4. members have varied credit limits when betting, limit to be set by admin.
5. admin able to set a limit to the total bets received.
6. admin to have a panel that lists the full details of all bets as well as summarized reports.
7. admin to be able to stop accepting bets in realtime, in order to adjust odds.
8. admin to be able to set formula for calculation of odds for automatic tabulation.
9. members able to have a results panel to list their current bets, past bets and total profit/loss.

i feel that with these features, it makes for a more realistic betting system and it allows an avenue for forums to start its subscriptions for members. in turn, forums can work with businesses to sponsor prizes for the person who finally makes the most vCash at the end of the events/season.

is this possible? or is it too hard to be realised?

Hi Alan, I've read your post and will respond properly later when I've a bit more time. Most, if not all of the things are fairly straight forward. Really it comes down to whether I can be bothered. ;) I'll give a better reply later.

I addressed this previously, saying that there are many store/points hacks already available that offer this sort of thing. I don't really have plans to incorporate it into vBookie but you're not the first to ask, and if I get more requests for the same thing I'll probably do it.

However, there is already a mechanism for players to "get back into the game" - there's a "charity mode" whereby anyone on less than 25 credits gets set to 25 when a new event is added.


I like the idea, but it doesn't really fit into the current framework. It'd require some sort of challenge/response mechanism to be built in. That's not particularly difficult, but it's a sizeable addition. Like I say, I do like the idea though, so I'll consider doing it.


Not entirely sure what you mean here by "deduct directly from the top winners.


This was actually in my original plan, but I decided not to bother since it's virtual "cash" and there's an unlimited supply as far as settling goes.


Again, since there's an unlimited settlement pot, there's really no need to limit the number or size of bets that may be placed.


Better reporting is certainly something that's relatively simple to add.


You can close an event at any point to do this, just by changing the appropriate time. Do you mean a one-click button to do the job?


I'm not sure what you're getting at here.


None of it is particularly difficult. All I need is the motivation to do it. =) I'll look to release an update with some enhancements in the next week or two.

I can't add events but at the top of the vbookie settings I see this error:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in .../includes/functions.php on line 2871

I didn't even edit line 2871. Any ideas?

You may not have edited line 2871, but it may still tell you where the problem lies as you'll be able to see what the invalid argument is. Line 2871 of my functions.php is

so obviously I can't compare mine with yours. I'm guessing that yours is one of

They are both in that area, anyway. The latter one might make sense, and could suggest that you didn't make all the vBookie installation changes correctly. First of all, go through all the changes and compare them against the changes you actually made. People usually find that they inadvetently missed an edit.

Excellent hack, but im having one problem that I can figure.

Im useing the Petz money system, and everyone can place bets o.k. (and its deducted from there money) but when it comes to payout it dosent give anyone there winnings, but does seem to give it to me (defaulting to userid 1 which is my id?) any ideas?

Thanks for the bug report. There's an error in includes/functions_vbookie.php, in the function 'vbookie_give_user_cash()'.

You can correct it very simply yourself:

Find:
Replace that with:

My apologies for the oversight.