Add-On Releases - vBookie for vBulletin 4

Please See the first post for a F.A.Q.
I will endevour to link to useful posts within this thread there as I spot them. You should check there before posting issues etc.

This is a port of vBookie for vBulletin 3.5 by Andreas which was a port of vBookie - vBulletin Betting Hack by tjdrico. Permission was given by tjdrico to port this.

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'.

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.

Install Instructions
1. Unzip product file
2. Upload files from 'Upload' folder to your forum
3. Install product XML
[S]4. Edit "newthread" template as per readme.txt ionstructions[/S]
5. Set usergroup permissions
6. Set vBookie settings
7. Enjoy.
8. Check out Dismounted's Activity Stream addon
9. Click Mark As Installed and Rate

Upgrade instructions
same as above, but undo edits made in point 4 if upgrading from pre 4.0.7! (see readme.txt for more info)

Version Control
4.0.0 (19 Jan '10 ) - Initial Release
4.0.1 (21 Jan '10 ) - Removed some junk from templates, added enable private bets option
4.0.2 (24 Jan '10 ) - fixed options for hiding vcash, added some more stuff to teh settings screen, added some vCash utilities (reset balances, give to everyone, set default balance) and fixed some template bugs.
4.0.3 (25 Jan '10) - fixed bugs I introduced in 4.0.2 see post #109
4.0.4 (25 Jan '10) - fixed time zone not being saved, can delete events, + plus a couple other things.
4.0.5 (Australia Day '10) - no longer uses bitfields for permissions, fixed vCash display, fixed stats page error
4.0.6 (27 Jan '10) - fixed TABLE PREFIX issue in vBookie stats page
4.0.7 (23 Mar '10) - fixed redirect bug when editing events, fixed display of cash holdings in events, added plugin to make template mods (no template mods needed now) and updated code to 4.0.2 standards, added hooks for vbcredits integration.
NOTE 0- if upgrading from pre 4.0.7, you will need to eitehr revert your "newthread" temp[late, or manually undo template edits as there is now a plugin which does this for you. Check teh readme.txt in the archive for more info.
4.0.8 (31 May '10) - hopefully fixed bug with updating number of outcomes when editing events. To upgrade from previous version (4.0.7) just overwrite vbookie.php
4.0.9 (25 July 10) - Added ability to select Reputation points for currency. Phrased had coded text. Fixed bug in displaying vCash balance in postbit.
4.2.0 (21 August 12) Added in navigation manager Code for vBulletin 4.2, disabled old nav plugin
4.2.1 (24 January 13) Added missing template, fixed Nav code, fixed some small bugs

[mort2412]

Originally Posted by dartho

check the vbookie_main_items_bit template and change the bit which is like:
<a href="showthread.php?t={vb:raw item.threadid}">{vbhrase thread}</a>
to
<a href="showthread.php?t={vb:raw item.threadid}">Place Bet</a>

Brilliant

Thanks dartho

[Alan_SP]

I have two questions:

Which version I should install, I have vB 4.1.12 (still not on vB4.2.x)?

And how vBookie stands with Google AdSense? I know they have policy against gambling. Can I use vBookie and still show their ads?

[boggseric]

Originally Posted by dartho

I had a look at this.

Firstly - please note - I am not a database guy!!

That being said, I did some tests and found that adding an index to thread.vbookie_item_id reduced the query time on my test site from 15 seconds to 0.0010 seconds.



edit: Just re-read boggseric's post and adding the above index was his original suggestion. I made (and unmade) several changes before coming to this one change which does indeed speed things up!

Oh yea. That is a necessity. Day and night difference.

[Edgecrusher]

Hello there,

First post on the forum ever here!

Am I missing something here, because vBookie just isn't working on my 4.2.2 installation.

As this working for everyone?

[kylek]

I have it running on vb 4.2.2 with no problems. Make sure you check all your usergroup settings.

[Edgecrusher]

Thanks for reply kylek.

Really sorry, but a friend had uploaded vBookie, and I didn't realise he was getting permission errors on some files...

My fault, I changed permissions and re-uploaded, and we're good now. So in case I worried anyone, it does seem to all be working fine now.

Thanks kylek.

[blue6995]

Since updating to the latest version I cannot bet on an event and I don't seem to be able to settle an event either. I am sure I have the User-group ids set up correctly

[blue6995]

Originally Posted by blue6995

Since updating to the latest version I cannot bet on an event and I don't seem to be able to settle an event either. I am sure I have the User-group ids set up correctly

To answer my own question there was a compatibility issue with one of the mods I was playing around with for the events feature - Events Forum, so I've disabled that and everything is now working

[valendono]

Hi Darto,

I juts upgrade to 4.2.1


the Odds 12/10 should be 1.2 not 2.2 , but the cash is correct, its time 1.2.

How to fix this ?

[Bozza]

Just re-installed this.

Does (or did) anyone have issue with vCash being displayed in postbit legacy? it duplicates for every post on the page of the thread. So, post 1 has vCash shown once, the tenth post on the page has the same thing 10 times and the 20th post on the page has it shown 20 times!

I've reverted my postbit templates to standard, but it's still happening, so I've had to turn off postbit display now, but I'd rather have it on if I can.