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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[curly howard]

EDIT* I found the problem, thanks

[turfy]

It's possible to have real time odds that change with the bet of user.
Example if all user bet on only two chance, they ar little odd etc...

Perhaps a good idea to futur version ?

[joshskeety]

I have asked this 6 times now. I also see that other users are asking questions, but not receiving any help. I have waiting patiently for almost a month for some sort of answer, or even a response from the creator or ANYONE that may have seen this SQL error before.

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

[skinny]

Great add-on. All my members are loving it! Would it be possible to include an edit function when bets have been settled, because one of my members did it wrong, and we cant edit the results of the bets?

Also, is it possible to simply clear all the bets made, give everyone 500 vcash and start over again?

[VodkaFish]

I just added it to my largest site and it's an instant hit.

The feedback I've had so far:
- Add vCash to profile, not userbit (something I'm doing).
- More leaders lists then just the top 5 richest. Perhaps a page in itself just for leaders. Overall, last week, last month.
- Categorized leaders.

Suggestions from me:
- Have a "max bet" amount for an event. Here's why: say I want to encourage people playing and I say - new category starting over the next month: whoever gets the highest in the category at the end of the month wins a prize. Well - new members (and members who are unlikely) will be at a huge disadvantage for the prize if I let any amount be bet on these events. Therefore, if I were to say "100 max" or something like that, I can make it a much more even playing field for all involved. Outside events can still be whatever, but these "prize events" need more control over them.

Thanks for listening

[Okiewan]

searched, but can't find anything...
users needing charity aren't getting it (yes, it's on in options).
Any ideas?

[N00BIE]

Ok i'm trying to install this hack and everything has gone fine up to this point.
i've already installed uShop_&_uCash_095a and the problem i'm having is this part in the INIT.PHP file..
the hack says
FIND

'stylecache' 
        ), $specialtemplates);

REPLACE WITH

'stylecache', 
            // +++ vBookie 
            'vbookiesettings' 
            // --- vBookie 
        ), $specialtemplates);

but the ushop hack has already changed tis part into this

// ## <ucs>
			'stylecache',
			'utt_store_act'
// ## </ucs>

and if i try to include the other code like this.

// ## <ucs>
			'stylecache',
			'utt_store_act'
                        'vbookiesettings'
// ## </ucs>

i get this error

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ')'

any help on this would be very grateful

[SnowBot]

You missed something out. Try this

PHP Code:

 // ## <ucs>
            'stylecache',
            'utt_store_act',
            'vbookiesettings'
// ## </ucs> 


Im not sure but that should work, i have not got the shop hack installed.

[N00BIE]

thanx alot that did the trick =]

[KevinSHOCK]

ok i dont know if this has been covered cause this thread is huge, but i use ucash, and the vbookie works and all but its using its own money system and not the ucash like i selected it to use in the vbookie control panel, help is GREATLY appreciated.