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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[AquilaEagle]

Sounds great posting to bookmark it, not installing just yet

[kr580]

Is there any way I can maunally delete events without the thread? When I first installed it I put some events up and I did it wrong so I deleted the threads for the events without ending the actual event first. Now they're sitting there but they won't go away as I havn't settled them. Any way to get rid of these?

There's no 'Delete' anywhere. No thread. Nothing.



When I click the 'Thread' or 'Info' link it takes me to a page that says "Invalid vBookie Event/thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator"

[dubsyxxx]

Originally Posted by tjdrico

Yes, that's quite possible.

All you'd need to do is hack the functions_vbookie.php file, changing the 8 instances of 'vbookie_cash' to 'reputation'. That should be all you need to do. You might want to alter some of the phrases as well, as they mention 'cash' such as "You do not have enough cash to cover your bets" (vbookie_not_enough_cash) or "You have 300 cash" (vbookie_may_bet), etc.

Also, in the vBookie general settings, turn off the display of vCash in the postbit, as it'd be pointless to display. Since you're dealing with Reputation, you'd also want to turn off the "charity" mode I expect, as that would re-set anyone lower than 25 to a 25 Reputation each time a new Event is added.

This isnt working for me can someone help

[Pete C]

Ok, I've read through most of this thread and can't seem to find a similar problem - so help please?

I've done everything in the instructions and there are no parse errors when I load the site. I set vBookie as active, and selected uCash. Problem is, when I try to access vbookie.php there's just a blank page. Same thing happens when I select "Post vBookie event" as a posting option . . it just loads a blank page!

Everything appears to be ok. As I said, no parse errors, no install errors, and the vBookie options have been added to my ACP.

Now I do have v3 Arcade, uCash/uShop, & vbChat installed (and working well) but I think the prob must be some kind of clash with one of these hacks.

I expected to make some minor changes in view of these prior modifications . . the change to my includes/init.php looks like this:

// ## <ucs>
			'stylecache',
			'utt_store_act',
		'arcadesettings',
		// +++ vBookie 
            'vbookiesettings' 
            // --- vBookie
 	           ), $specialtemplates);
		}

As I said the other mods were/still are working fine . . and the prob may not necessarily be with this file. I simply can't get the vbookie page to display - any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Belder's Place

[Pete C]

Ok, got it working on 1 theme. The problem seems to be that the vBookie templates were only added to the theme that was set as "forum default".

That isn't the vB default theme, and the vB default theme can't be "parented" by an added theme . . so is there a relatively easy way to get all the added templates into the default theme (and others) . . or would I need to copy each template and add them manually?

Belder's Place

[Pete C]

Sorted. Enough said.

[haknet]

Hi !
I am setting the value "Can Post vBookie Events" yes (for administrotors)
And I am saving the permissions !
But I can't post vbookie events again !
When I am going to Administrotor permissions I see that it's still No (Can Post vBookie Events)
I can't set it to yes !
What can i do ?
Thanks !!
(Sorry,My English is very bad )

[Stanesq]

where do i post to have someone professionally install the latest Vbookie software? I cant get this darn thing working.

Stanesqauto@aol.com

[MUDERCOOL]

hello! great hack, thank you.

how can I adjust the winning amounts as an option wins it should be paying for 1.50 => 1.50, not 2.50
I mean;
for example, if a user puts 100 points and the odd is "1.5" (15/10) and the user gets 100+150 points, 250 points if he wins.
However I want to give him (if he wins) "150", instead of 250

I hope I'm clear enough. How can I adjust this? thank you.

[Celtic_Mad]

Would anyone be as kind as to update this for vBulletin 3.6?

Thanks.