Mini Mods - Daily Game - Posts a new flash game to your vBulletin every day

Daily Game posts a new flash game to your vBulletin once per day in a new thread. Daily Game will help your vBulletin by:

• Starting up conversations on slow days
• Increasing retention since users are playing on your forum
• Help you get links and improve SEO (flash games get a lot of links!)
• Make you money! Use your own ad code to display an ad while the flash game is loading. These pre-roll ads get very high eCPM!

Install time: 5 minutes
Installation difficulty: Easy
Demo: http://www.playedonline.com/forum/showthread.php?t=40

Updated to version 1.5 : No manual template modifications and title and content customization

Updated to version 2.1 : simple_xml support is no longer required, enabled bbcodes on the game thread, support for switched off boards.

Installation instructions

1. Upload add_daily_game.php to the vBulletin root directory
2. Import the product XML file (Plugins & Products -> Manage Products - > [Add/Import Product])
3. Configure the Daily Game settings under vBulletin Options -> vBulletin Options -> Daily Game:
   • Set ?Enabled? to Yes
   • Visit www.playedonline.com/register_vbulletin to register (input your forum's url and your email) and get a shared key for authentication.
   • Configure which userid will post the daily games (input 0 for guest)
   • Choose a forum for Daily Game
   • Customise the title (useful for non-English forums) or leave blank for default
   • Enable or disable description and instructions
   • Paste ad code (e.g. AdSense) to show a pre-roll ad before the game starts (optional, leave empty to show no ads)
   • Click the Test link you got in the registration e-mail to post a test daily game (you can delete the test post after you verify that it works)
   • You're done! A daily game will be posted on your forum every day at 3am EST.
4. Optional : if you switch off your vBulletin from time to time you can make sure the games are posted even if the board is off by making those small changes:
   • Add the following code to /includes/functions.php
     
     PHP Code:

     function endswith($string, $test) {
    $strlen = strlen($string);
    $testlen = strlen($test);
    if ($testlen > $strlen) return false;
    return substr_compare($string, $test, -$testlen) === 0;
} 

   • In global.php find the line
     
     PHP Code:

     if (!$vbulletin->options['bbactive'] AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'login') 

     and replace with
     
     PHP Code:

     if (!$vbulletin->options['bbactive'] AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'login' AND !endswith($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"], '/add_daily_game.php')) 


[Cindyl10]

Not sure.... I entered the shared key, went to the url to check it and at first I thought it might have worked but then saw this error:

Exception : undefined method `string' for #

not sure what that means or what to do about it.... does anyone else know?

[Cindyl10]

Nope. Not working. But when I went back on this thread and read it again, I remembered that the same thing happened when I first got this and I posted it here. Exact same post I posted yesterday. But as I recall, they answered the email I replied to telling them of the problem and it was something on their end. They fixed it and the next morning I had a new game. So, I'll try replying to the email with the key in it again and see if I get an answer this time. The last dozen times I haven't.

Originally Posted by Cindyl10

I must have done something wrong...my test didn't work... I got this error message:

When I registered, it asked for the link to the forum which I assumed meant to the forum I wanted the games posted in, so I gave it that link which is:
http://www.fresh-hope.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=86

Other then that, I've uploaded everything to where it belongs and configured everything so I'm not sure what could have gone wrong...

Oh, I didn't put in an Adsense Code as I don't have one yet and am not sure I want ads on the board...that didn't appear to be mandatory though... I really don't know anything about adsense so I'm a little concerned about signing up for it... If you have to have it for this, will they only put ads in that one forum or will they put them everywhere?

Can someone help me? Thanks

Originally Posted by Cindyl10

Not sure.... I entered the shared key, went to the url to check it and at first I thought it might have worked but then saw this error:

not sure what that means or what to do about it.... does anyone else know?

[Rap-royalty.com]

What version is your board? Mine is still working as of this post. Link to your forum?

[Cindyl10]

I've got vBulletin 3.8.6; here's a link...the game forum is near the middle of the board...
http://www.fresh-hope.com/forums/index.php

[Rap-royalty.com]

Have you tried disabling other mods and seeing if this works without them on?

Nice clean site by the way.

[Cindyl10]

Thank you! Yes, I looked and although nothing had been added since I added this mod, I went ahead and disabled a bunch of them just to see if that would make a difference, but it didn't, so I re-enabled them again. If I recall correctly from when I first got this mod, it is something simple that they have to do on their end as the same thing happened then as has this time. Only difference is that no one ever replies to the email now when I tell them about the problem.

[Digital Jedi]

If you notice, their forum is flooded with thousands of pages of automated spam posts. That means they haven't been on their forum in quite some time. I'm actually hoping it's just negligence, and not that anything happened to the developer. Always concerns me when all web presence abruptly ceases like that.

[Cindyl10]

true, I certainly hope nothing's happened to them. I sure wish there was someone that could take it over for them though if they can't be there. Oh well, what will be, will be, I suppose...

[trotskid]

No more new games on my forum since May. What happen?