Alpha: VBSoccer Tennis Cricket Formula1 - (others sports are being modified)

Hi,
These r some additions i am adding to my own forums containing livescores pages, and other pages for tables of major leagues, fixtures, standings and fixtures.
Some of the content is routed through my site including the first 4 attachments, while sports.zip which enables
Soccer, tennis, hockey, baseball, basketball, and american football
Will act as follows : Cron job to download the feeds from my website, parse into database, and the sports.php will accordinaly show which tables selected to users.

Demos are on :
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/livescores.php
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/latest.php
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/cricket.php
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/formula1.php
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/tennis.php


Attention: None of these files will work if you do not have allowurl_fopen_on




All you need to do is upload two files, few images and create two templates using the xml product file included.
Your server must allow you to include remote files ( allow_url_fopen = on )
There is no installer as they are only two templates to add manually.

I am still developing this for further additions so it might follow some updates especially if i was given more ideas.

The livescores page contains a Link to a freebet.php file that i did not include but rather is up to you to create and add your own content page since you cannot modify the body.
Though you cannot modify the table itself but its percentage table thus you can edit the template as you may and just make sure to keep the variable.
The goals.php and standings.php are non vb pages but rather popups, their style is included within the en.css style sheet thus you can edit to match your forum look and feel.

To install just upload the files, add the two templates, and dont forget to link to it from your navbar or header.

May 22nd , added Tennis under further development too.
demo at
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/tennis.php
zip attached
May 25th, added cricket parsed rss feeds as requested by Zia, he also suggested the free feeds to be displayed.
nb: crickinfo.com provides the feeds for free as long as you keep their copyright, parsing technique Copyright 2005 Drew Phillips
cricket.zip attached
demo at
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/cricket.php
nb: in cricket.php FIND
/home/username/public_html/forum
and replace with your actual forum path this setting will actually put a cached copy of the rss feed on your desired directory so you dont overload your server connections

June 02 2006
Uploaded formula1.zip ,
One file to upload and one xml to export 1 template.
Includes, Formula 1 results, Drivers Standings and Constructors Standings

June 02 2006
Added Sports.zip
To Install :
1:Export scorestables.xml
This will create your required database tables.
2: Export ONE of the templates xml files the first one sportstemplates.xml has also links to the previous attached files if installed, the second does not if you are using sports.php alone.
3: upload sports.php to forum root, and owsoccer.php to includes/cron/
4: Add the cron job as described in the note ( See the picture included in the zip file ) and DO NOT change the minute value, it is set to update once per hour, keep it so , as the feeds are updated once per hour too and it will not be any more usefull if you hammer my server with requests !
Finally,
For using any of those add your own navbar or header links wherever you find suitable on your forum.

Attention : I removed sports.php , untill i resolve some communication setting and few other issues, the rest are working fine.

Suggestions and feedback for further improvements are appreciated.
If you use the feeds please click install !

Sports.php is no longer served.

20 Jan 2007 : Updated soccer.zip
changed files :
livescores.php
goal.php ( you can safely delete old goals.php )
standing.php ( you can safely delete standings.php)
en.css ( because of changed goal and standing class names)
images to be uploaded to your forum images directory.
If you are updating, its enough to replace those files with no further editing or installing.

[bashy]

Hi Bob

it goes in the livescores.php on ya server /forum/ folder

[firstrebel]

Originally Posted by bashy

Hi Bob

it goes in the livescores.php on ya server /forum/ folder

Thanks bashy. I presume I can do the same with latest.php?

Bob

[bashy]

oo...i didnt think about that, well if it has the same code then i would have thought so, gonna try....brb

[bashy]

Yep it works with latest.php as well Bob

[firstrebel]

Tx. I don't know why I asked, all I had to do was try it myself. Been one of those days. Roll on tomorrow.

Bob

[bashy]

No worries Bob, its alway best to hear it from someone opposed to breaking something

[firstrebel]

Wrong thread..

Bob

[MThornback]

Originally Posted by lebanon

MTHornback, well i dont mind changing that as i dont intend betting on my site either , but since i add this into the parser , i can either remove it or change it for all, so il let you guys decide that ! After all this should fit the majority or maybe ill just add a second extension without the links.
Regards

Would you consider having 2 versions? I know its alot of work for you for upgrades etc...but I can't use it till it doesn't have betting abilities :cross-eyed: i'd really like too...so I have my fingers crossed....if not I'll keep it just for myself to check scores but I would like my users to use it aswell

[dan35]

maybe use this with vbplaza and vbbookie

[lebanon]

mthornback, yes its not much work to do so ill be uploading a v2 without bet link,
as for usage with vbookie, actually i will have to download the vbookie and look it up, last time i used it was with 3.0.7 and a thread needs to be created to add a vbookie event, in such case,its not in my coding capabilities to insert which vbookie id into which raw from the parsed rss feed. nevertheless i will be sure if ican do it or not when i look up vbookie.