vBookie - vBulletin Betting Hack

vBookie

Introduction

vBookie is a 'bookmakers' or betting extension to vBulletin. It enables authorised members to post Events and Outcomes that forum members can bet on. Each Outcome has its own set of odds, and odds can be modified through the life of an Event (bets that are placed are stored with the prevailing odds, so even if the odds change, your users are paid at the correct rate).

Once the results are known, Events can be settled and forums members awarded their winnings.

vBookie uses its own vCash by default, but this has no more use than as 'bragging rights'. However, vBookie also comes with a built-in switch to allow it to use either uCash or Petz money instead. That means that all bets are paid for and settled using uCash or Petz money, making betting even more attractive than just for fun on forums with uShop/Petz installed. Although vBookie does not have any built-in facility to integrate with any other store hacks, it's a very simple job to hack vBookie itself to integrate it with any store/points system you care to use.

Features

• master switch to turn vBookie off
• option to use uCash
• option to use Petz money
• settings to restrict the creation of Events to specific user groups
• settings to restrict which user groups can bet on Events
• settings to restrict which user groups can edit or settle other people's Events
• per-Event, specify whether punters may bet on more than one outcome
• optional 'charity mode' so that the poorest members of the forum always have something to play with
• supplied with a module for vBadvanced

Please click if you install this hack, thanks. Please also let me know - send me an email or a PM. If you'd let me know the forum URL too that'd be cool!

vBookie is free, and will remain free.

Updates

1.0.0 -> 1.0.1

- adds the ability to delete Events. See this post for upgrade instructions if you already have 1.0.0

1.0.1 -> 1.0.2

Corrected a minor bug with the charity mode when using uCash. See this post for manual upgrade instructions from 1.0.1.

1.0.2 -> 1.0.3

Corrected a minor bug with the richest people display when using uCash. Just overwrite includes/functions_vbookie.php with the one from the new Zip file.

1.0.3 -> 1.0.4

Corrected some date display problems when using "Detailed" dates. For manual update instructions, see this post.

Corrected Petz bug whereby all winnings were paid to the bet's owner rather than individual winners. To upgrade from 1.03 or earlier, see this post or overwrite includes/functions.vbookie.php with the 1.0.4 version.

Problems?

-> Petz - If you are using Petz there is a bug in all versions up to and inclusing 1.0.3. Your players won't get paid their winning, and all payouts will end up in the account of the person that posted the Event. To correct this, please see this post. This fix will be incororated into 1.0.4 onwards.

-> If you can't post Events, or can't bet on them make sure you have set your user permissions

-> If you have an SQL error Invalid SQL: UPDATE SET =25 WHERE <25 make sure you are using version 1.0.3 or later.

-> If you have any other general problems, please check the installation/hack instructions and make sure you have carried out all the steps and also check that you made the changes correctly

Anything else, ask in this thread.

Other Stuff

-> If you are using Detailed Date & Time display and have a problem with Event dates appearing as '1 Minute Ago', see this post.

-> If you want to use poster 'Reputation' as the currency for vBookie, see this post.

About Odds

Odds of "5/1" are "amount won per amount placed". This means that I would win 5 for every 1 placed. Of course, if I win, I get my stake back as well. Odds of "1/5" means that I win 1 for every 5 placed. I'd have to place 25 to win just 5.

Decimal Odds

Decimal odds are just another way of displaying the same information. 2.0 is the same as 2/1. 0.2 is the same as 1/5. vBookie only lets you specify odds in terms of x/y, but if you think in terms of decimal you can still work out what odds to provide. Simply think of your decimal odds as "2.0 / 1.0" or "0.5 / 1.0" and then multiply each side through by 10 or 100 until there are only zeros to the right of the decimal point, then just take the whole number part.

2.0 / 1.0 has no decimals, so this is the same as 2/1

0.5 / 1.0 has a 0.5, so multiply both parts by 10 to get 5.0 / 10.0. Then you can specify your odds as 5 / 10. You might also realise that this is the same as 1/2. The technique is a simple way to work out any odds you may need to specify.

Odds of 0.65 -> 0.65 / 1.0 -> 65.0 / 100.0 or 65/100. Then you can divide through by 5 to get to 13 / 20, although this step isn't necessary.


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[Regs]

Excellent stuff, thanks!

Of course, you can do whatever you see fit, here. You might prefer to only allow vBookie events to be created in a specific forum, rather than in every forum. To do this, just set the permissions for specific forums as normal.

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.

[tjdrico]

Originally Posted by immotive

i modified according to here

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ror#post520745

events are recorded, but i still got the error.

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:

PHP Code:

global $DB_site, $vboptions, $vbookiesettings; 


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.

[tjdrico]

Originally Posted by Regs

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...

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.

[nydk]

Originally Posted by tjdrico

Well, actually, the "+0" should just convert it to a number, not strictly an integer. The problem with the ordering was that the uttpoints field is a VARCHAR, so "ORDER BY" uses dictionary ordering. In dictionary ordering "8.5" comes after "700", so the numbers come out wrong. The "+0" forces them to be viewed as numbers, so "8.5" comes before "700".

I don't know why it uses a char field rather than a decimal or int for a numeric amount, but it seems to work OK and the +0 on my SELECT should fix it if it's not present in your copy of the file.

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?

[tjdrico]

Originally Posted by nydk

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.

[LoOnEyToOnZ]

Originally Posted by tjdrico

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:

PHP Code:

global $DB_site, $vboptions, $vbookiesettings; 


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.

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' .

[tjdrico]

Originally Posted by LoOnEyToOnZ

May i know where can i find out the utt store settings ?

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?

[immotive]

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

Originally Posted by tjdrico

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:

PHP Code:

global $DB_site, $vboptions, $vbookiesettings; 


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.

[LoOnEyToOnZ]

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

[MrNase]

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