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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[Wential]

Can this hack be set to use PayPal donations as a way of adding to their balance?

[bi11i]

Originally Posted by 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)

hey thanks that was much easier than i thought it was going to be (plus it worked beautifully.)

[bi11i]

Originally Posted by Wential

Can this hack be set to use PayPal donations as a way of adding to their balance?

wouldn't that be, uh, illegal? (lemme know if you find a way to do it)

[Wential]

Originally Posted by bi11i

wouldn't that be, uh, illegal? (lemme know if you find a way to do it)

It was actually an idea as a way to only give my donating members access to this feature. Since they never get any real money back, it's not illegal. I checked .

[bi11i]

I deleted a thread containing an event (which was created by another user.) I'm not unable to delete the event - i only have the 'Thread' and 'Info' options available to me.

Is this a defect or am I doing something wrong?

[Lionel]

I installed vbookie, but it seems that it is interfering with the private thread hack. After I setup the groups permissions, whenever I run vbookie.php the settings for the other hack switches to "no" and Vbookie settings are not updating for the groups.

Now this is a rather long install. Can someone please give me a pointer which php to look for the settings?

[Lionel]

Here is my problem. The permissions in usergroup are behaving erratic: the radio buttons do not accept updates or update the wrong ones.

ALLOW GROUP TO READ TITLES/ NOT CONTENT is the other hack name

When I remove the vbookie hack from usergroup, they are fine. Maybe it is a matter of switching lines?


// set default yes permissions (bitfields)
$ug_bitfield = array(
'showgroup' => 1, 'canview' => 1, 'canviewmembers' => 1,
'canviewothers' => 1, 'cagetattachment' => 1, 'cansearch' => 1,
'canmodifyprofile' => 1, 'canthreadrate' => 1, 'canpostattachment' => 1,
'canpostpoll' => 1, 'canvote' => 1, 'canwhosonline' => 1,

// +++ vBookie
'canpostvbookieevent' => 1, 'caneditothersvbookieevents' => 1, 'canbet' => 1,
// --- vBookie
'allowhidden' => 1, 'showeditedby' => 1, 'canseeprofilepic' => 1,
'canusesignature' => 1,
// ================================================= \\
// == [ ALLOW GROUP TO READ TITLE / NOT CONTENT - GTP BEGIN ]
'gtpcanreadcontent' => 1
// == [ 00-00-2004 - GTP END ]
// ================================================= \\
);






print_yes_no_row($vbphrase['can_rate_threads'], 'usergroup[canthreadrate]', $ug_bitfield['canthreadrate']);
// ================================================= \\
// == [ ALLOW GROUP TO READ TITLE / NOT CONTENT - GTP BEGIN ]
print_yes_no_row($vbphrase['gtp_can_read_content'], 'usergroup[gtpcanreadcontent]', $ug_bitfield['gtpcanreadcontent']);
// == [ 00-00-2004 - GTP END ]
// ================================================= \\
print_table_break();


if ($usergroupid != 1) // Guests can not post attachments
{
print_table_header($vbphrase['attachment_permissions']);
print_yes_no_row($vbphrase['can_upload_attachments'], 'usergroup[canpostattachment]', $ug_bitfield['canpostattachment']);
print_input_row($vbphrase['space_in_bytes_attachlimit'], 'usergroup[attachlimit]', $usergroup['attachlimit']);
print_table_break();
}

print_table_header($vbphrase['poll_permissions']);
print_yes_no_row($vbphrase['can_post_polls'], 'usergroup[canpostpoll]', $ug_bitfield['canpostpoll']);
print_yes_no_row($vbphrase['can_vote_on_polls'], 'usergroup[canvote]', $ug_bitfield['canvote']);
print_table_break();
// +++ vBookie
print_table_header($vbphrase['vbookie_permissions']);
print_yes_no_row($vbphrase['can_post_vbookieevents'], 'usergroup[canpostvbookieevent]', $ug_bitfield['canpostvbookieevent']);
print_yes_no_row($vbphrase['can_edit_others_vbookieevents'], 'usergroup[caneditothersvbookieevents]', $ug_bitfield['caneditothersvbookieevents']);
print_yes_no_row($vbphrase['can_bet_on_vbookieevents'], 'usergroup[canbet]', $ug_bitfield['canbet']);
print_table_break();
// --- vBookie

[Lionel]

The problem was in the bitfield. They were both using the same bitfield number. I doubled the other hack bitfield, and the permissions are holding and the other hack appears to be fine.

However, I am confused on how Vbookie works. I gave full permission to admin, and when I go to vbookie.php I do not see how to input a bet.

[Warlord]

Did you read the manual?

(Just create a new topic and check the box that reads Yes, post a vBookie Event with this thread, but try the instructions next time )

[Warlord]

Originally Posted by Warlord

Any way to record who bet on what, and create a tally board? (Useful for football pics)

Anyone wanna tackle this idea?