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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[joshskeety]

I get this error message when installing.. It gets to the "do database modifications" part and then I get..

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.1:

Invalid SQL:
CREATE TABLE vb3_vbookie_groups (
group_id SMALLINT UNSIGNED DEFAULT '1' AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
group_title VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL
) TYPE=MyISAM

mysql error: Invalid default value for 'group_id'

mysql error number: 1067

Any solutions?

Josh

[vajb]

Originally Posted by Kru

Ok I fixed my former problem anyway there is still another if I am trying to open vbookie.php for example like here: http://www.spiritual-connections.com...s/vbookie.php? I am just getting a blank screen. I checked the whole installation again and again but can't find the bug.

Any help is mostly welcome.

Same problem here, Just a blank page, followed the instrunctions to a max, still just blank, how did you solve it, since your page now works?

[kall]

Originally Posted by vajb

Same problem here, Just a blank page, followed the instrunctions to a max, still just blank, how did you solve it, since your page now works?

If you followed the instructions perfectly, it would work. That's the way these things go.

Is there a possibility that you have more than one Style available on your forums?

And that the default one is not the one you are looking at?

Most automatic Template installs add the new templates to one style only, requiring the Installee to manually copy and paste the info into other templates.

[Kru]

The fact that nothing is being shown on vBookie.php might suggest that a required template isn't present in the database. The installer only add templates and phrases to the default style (he should if you have another style with the same id then it doesn't work for the default, too), and if you are using a style that's not based on the default you might find that the templates aren't picked up.

Try editing vbookie_install.php and changing "$styleid=$vboptions['styleid'];" (appears twice) to "$styleid=N;" where N is the styleid of your style.

(thanks to Rico for this hint)

[vajb]

Haven't touched templates yet, still using the No.1 one, basic default one.

Changing styleid to 1 doesn't make sense since its default.

All templates are added, same with phrases, databases are made etc... this is just ...

[vajb]

Went through the cfg/install, didn't find it.

Going to bring my laptop to work and do a clean install of vb3 and then throw vbookie in there.

If this is the case the installer should work perfectly, an untouched version of vb3 fresh from the factory?

[joshskeety]

I get this error message when installing.. It gets to the "do database modifications" part and then I get..

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.1:

Invalid SQL:
CREATE TABLE vb3_vbookie_groups (
group_id SMALLINT UNSIGNED DEFAULT '1' AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
group_title VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL
) TYPE=MyISAM

mysql error: Invalid default value for 'group_id'

mysql error number: 1067

Any solutions?

Josh

[Drunkacho]

Hey, I installed vBookie and I get this message. How can I fix it. Thanks

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Warning: set_time_limit(): Cannot set time limit in safe mode in /public_html/forums/vbookie.php on line 20




Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /public_html/forums/vbookie.php
Line: 20

EDIT: Fixed, I had to change line 20 to:

//set_time_limit(0);

[slabuda]

Installed Vbookie and now my permissions for vbarcade aren't working.

Cbookie installation asks me to change the following lines ..

'stylecache',
'arcadesettings'
), $specialtemplates);

What should i do here? Or does that even effect my permissions.

Thanks.

[curly howard]

Clicked Install. Great work.