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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[Battle_Ring]

that edit didnt change anythign and my

uttpoints_pointsfield ----uttpoints
and
uttpoints_pointtable ----user

[tjdrico]

Originally Posted by Battle_Ring

that edit didnt change anythign and my

uttpoints_pointsfield ----uttpoints
and
uttpoints_pointtable ----user

Well, I'm a bit puzzled then. Unless I'm just missing something blatently obvious. I don't have a well-used forum handy that uses uCash that I can try an duplicate this problem on. I tried to view your forum but it required registration for viewing.

Do you know how to run SQL commands using the console or mySQL? You could try running the select and what it looks like.

It should be:

[sql]SELECT u.username, p.uttpoints AS cash FROM user AS p LEFT JOIN user AS u ON u.userid=p.userid ORDER BY cash DESC LIMIT 5;[/sql]

[Battle_Ring]

i ran the quey and this si what it says

Creeper 990
Platinum~Pimp 98
|†|KryptoniK|†| 9485
shinoda 93
ºDissØrderlyº 9152
yo-yo's-r-us 91
madhatter 9
~*Ladie Berretta*~ 88
nimbus 87
STYLES 8679469
Blak Siinz 855
K-jun 85
Katana no Mune 83
Exact SkillZ 82
PURE*EVIL 80
ThOr-O 8
Denze 8
.:.¼¦¶Lü§.:. 8
Q_skinnypimp 8
Eye Solation 8

[tjdrico]

Oh, wait... it's using a character field, not an integer. So it uses "dictionary" ordering. Two ticks while I look up the mySQL syntax to cast a VARCHAR to an INT. =)

[tjdrico]

OK, if you do the following, it should fix that little problem:

Open includes/functions_vbookie.php

Find:

PHP Code:

$q = "SELECT u.username, p.".$vboptions['uttpoints_pointsfield']." AS cash FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . $vboptions['uttpoints_pointtable']." AS p LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user AS u ON u.userid=p.userid ORDER BY cash DESC LIMIT 5"; 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

$q = "SELECT u.username, (p.".$vboptions['uttpoints_pointsfield']."+0) AS cash FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . $vboptions['uttpoints_pointtable']." AS p LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user AS u ON u.userid=p.userid ORDER BY p.".$vboptions['uttpoints_pointsfield']." DESC LIMIT 5"; 


[Battle_Ring]

nope

[tjdrico]

Did for me. Are you sure you saved it? Uploaded it? What version of mySQL are you using? Did you try it at the console too?

[Battle_Ring]

i only use the one in the console

[Battle_Ring]

i can give you ful ladmin access to my site and ftp info and stuff and you can see if you can do it

[tjdrico]

What about:

PHP Code:

$q = "SELECT u.username, CONVERT(p.".$vboptions['uttpoints_pointsfield'].", SIGNED) AS cash FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . $vboptions['uttpoints_pointtable']." AS p LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user AS u ON u.userid=p.userid ORDER BY p.".$vboptions['uttpoints_pointsfield']." DESC LIMIT 5"; 


Maybe your version of mySQL handles the +0 differently. The CONVERT() function should be the same though I think. I'm not sure about older versions of mySQL - this manual is for 4.0.9

Oh, I just read that "The CAST() and CONVERT() functions were added in MySQL 4.0.2. " so if you're on mySQL 3 then it'll still be unhappy. =) I'll look some more.