Daily Game - Posts a new flash game to your vBulletin every day
 

Daily Game posts a new flash game to your vBulletin once per day in a new thread. Daily Game will help your vBulletin by:

• Starting up conversations on slow days
• Increasing retention since users are playing on your forum
• Help you get links and improve SEO (flash games get a lot of links!)
• Make you money! Use your own ad code to display an ad while the flash game is loading. These pre-roll ads get very high eCPM!

Install time: 5 minutes
Installation difficulty: Easy
Demo: http://www.playedonline.com/forum/showthread.php?t=40

Updated to version 1.5 : No manual template modifications and title and content customization

Updated to version 2.1 : simple_xml support is no longer required, enabled bbcodes on the game thread, support for switched off boards.

Installation instructions

1. Upload add_daily_game.php to the vBulletin root directory
2. Import the product XML file (Plugins & Products -> Manage Products - > [Add/Import Product])
3. Configure the Daily Game settings under vBulletin Options -> vBulletin Options -> Daily Game:
   • Set ?Enabled? to Yes
   • Visit www.playedonline.com/register_vbulletin to register (input your forum's url and your email) and get a shared key for authentication.
   • Configure which userid will post the daily games (input 0 for guest)
   • Choose a forum for Daily Game
   • Customise the title (useful for non-English forums) or leave blank for default
   • Enable or disable description and instructions
   • Paste ad code (e.g. AdSense) to show a pre-roll ad before the game starts (optional, leave empty to show no ads)
   • Click the Test link you got in the registration e-mail to post a test daily game (you can delete the test post after you verify that it works)
   • You're done! A daily game will be posted on your forum every day at 3am EST.
4. Optional : if you switch off your vBulletin from time to time you can make sure the games are posted even if the board is off by making those small changes:
   • Add the following code to /includes/functions.php
     
     PHP Code:

     ---

     function endswith($string, $test) {
    $strlen = strlen($string);
    $testlen = strlen($test);
    if ($testlen > $strlen) return false;
    return substr_compare($string, $test, -$testlen) === 0;
} 


     ---

   • In global.php find the line
     
     PHP Code:

     ---

     if (!$vbulletin->options['bbactive'] AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'login') 


     ---

     and replace with
     
     PHP Code:

     ---

     if (!$vbulletin->options['bbactive'] AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'login' AND !endswith($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"], '/add_daily_game.php')) 


     ---

Tagged. Looks promising.
Will wait on feedback though first :)

Looks real nice - any chance for a vB 4 release for this one?

Installed, can't wait for my first game.

Looks very good.

However one question, where do all those ads come from? Can I put my own ads or are they coming from the actual sponsor of the game?

Yes, soon.

In the demo link the first ad that you see before the game loads is up to you to configure. You can put a 300x250 ad code there or you can leave it blank and the game will load straight away with no delay.

The second ad that you see is part of the game itself. Some flash game developers put ads in their games to make money - that's just the price of free content. Both ads together run about 30 seconds and the game loads in the background while they display so normally they don't add any actual wait time for the user.

Interesting, Might give this a go. Thanks.

Could someone who tried the plugin give some feedback?

i have it installed but haven't gotten a daily game yet, which is my fault. I registered on your site but forgot to put "/forums"at the end of my link, so the daily game will not appear.

should I re-register or can you edit that yourself (on your site)?

Re-registering would work but I just fixed it for you so there's no need. You can click the test link from the confirmation e-mail to make sure it works now.

thanks, i'll try it now.

update:
it works great. thanks!

Where exactly am i supposed to place the above code?

I found this
But im not sure what im supposed to replace with this
Does this go after something or do i actually replace something?

Replace:

With:

Forget it i found where to add the code but when i go to you site to test it says "Exception : 404 Not Found"

Did you upload the php file to your forum root?

Yes, i just tested again and now it says "The test game should now appear in your forum" but nothing shows. The user ID is set to mine and the forum to be posted in is our off topic forum

its working now! thanks ill give feedback in a few days

Sorry for yet another post but this is how the game shows up

http://www.reef-geeks.com/forums/gee...test-game.html

That means that your postbit template was not edited correctly. Did you replace $post[message] with

yes. this is what the whole section looks like

Are you using the postbit_legacy template by any chance?
In that case I guess you will need to make the same changes as in the code above

no, postbit screenshot attached

What he means is that your vBulletin might be configured to use the postbit legacy template in which case you should edit the postpit_legacy template the same way you edited the postbit template.

ok ill look at it

Ok says it working now after i edited all styles postbit legacy templates.

Thanks!

good job

works great. got my daily game this morning.

tagged for the time being will check it at a later date but looks good

Working just fine for me

Hi all

We have updated the mod - now it has more customization options and doesn't require manual template edits.

If you wish to upgrade to the new version you should download the attached files, replace add_daily_game.php and import the product xml file (after removing the previous version). Make sure you have the shared key before the update.

If you still need help post a reply here or send a PM - we will gladly assist

Will google adsense work in the advertisement area?

Yes definitely, just make sure you comply Google's terms of service

I added it, and we're having fun with it :)

http://forums.dats.us/forumdisplay.php?f=222

A new version is released - with more customization options and several fixes for the installation
Make sure to check it!

Trying this now on our test forum, very interested to see this

Thanks:up:

I noticed I didnt get a flash game today. We'll see if tomorrow its back to normal.

I havent gotten one for two days now. I guess we have to do the updates to start getting them again? Can you tell us what we are supposed to do with the update, just overwrite i guess?

I'm using Akismet spam management and it keeps moderating my daily thread.

I have set the threshold which should be bypassing the spam scanning (per the spam settings), however it's still being scanned and moderated..

:(

Ya i hadnt recieved a game in a couple days either,i just upgraded now to the new release,see if i get one tonight now, i will post more feedback tomorow if i did

and thats all i did was overwrite the .php and .xml

i installed this... everything according to given steps... test link said "The test game should now appear in your forum".. but test games didnt appear... i given a suboforum in one of main forum sections.. i have root @ www.sitedomain.com and forum home @ www.sitedomain.com/forum/index.php.... i have the php file @ /forum/....will see in 24 hours..