Alpha: VBSoccer Tennis Cricket Formula1 - (others sports are being modified)

Hi,
These r some additions i am adding to my own forums containing livescores pages, and other pages for tables of major leagues, fixtures, standings and fixtures.
Some of the content is routed through my site including the first 4 attachments, while sports.zip which enables
Soccer, tennis, hockey, baseball, basketball, and american football
Will act as follows : Cron job to download the feeds from my website, parse into database, and the sports.php will accordinaly show which tables selected to users.

Demos are on :
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/livescores.php
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/latest.php
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/cricket.php
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/formula1.php
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/tennis.php


Attention: None of these files will work if you do not have allowurl_fopen_on




All you need to do is upload two files, few images and create two templates using the xml product file included.
Your server must allow you to include remote files ( allow_url_fopen = on )
There is no installer as they are only two templates to add manually.

I am still developing this for further additions so it might follow some updates especially if i was given more ideas.

The livescores page contains a Link to a freebet.php file that i did not include but rather is up to you to create and add your own content page since you cannot modify the body.
Though you cannot modify the table itself but its percentage table thus you can edit the template as you may and just make sure to keep the variable.
The goals.php and standings.php are non vb pages but rather popups, their style is included within the en.css style sheet thus you can edit to match your forum look and feel.

To install just upload the files, add the two templates, and dont forget to link to it from your navbar or header.

May 22nd , added Tennis under further development too.
demo at
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/tennis.php
zip attached
May 25th, added cricket parsed rss feeds as requested by Zia, he also suggested the free feeds to be displayed.
nb: crickinfo.com provides the feeds for free as long as you keep their copyright, parsing technique Copyright 2005 Drew Phillips
cricket.zip attached
demo at
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/cricket.php
nb: in cricket.php FIND
/home/username/public_html/forum
and replace with your actual forum path this setting will actually put a cached copy of the rss feed on your desired directory so you dont overload your server connections

June 02 2006
Uploaded formula1.zip ,
One file to upload and one xml to export 1 template.
Includes, Formula 1 results, Drivers Standings and Constructors Standings

June 02 2006
Added Sports.zip
To Install :
1:Export scorestables.xml
This will create your required database tables.
2: Export ONE of the templates xml files the first one sportstemplates.xml has also links to the previous attached files if installed, the second does not if you are using sports.php alone.
3: upload sports.php to forum root, and owsoccer.php to includes/cron/
4: Add the cron job as described in the note ( See the picture included in the zip file ) and DO NOT change the minute value, it is set to update once per hour, keep it so , as the feeds are updated once per hour too and it will not be any more usefull if you hammer my server with requests !
Finally,
For using any of those add your own navbar or header links wherever you find suitable on your forum.

Attention : I removed sports.php , untill i resolve some communication setting and few other issues, the rest are working fine.

Suggestions and feedback for further improvements are appreciated.
If you use the feeds please click install !

Sports.php is no longer served.

20 Jan 2007 : Updated soccer.zip
changed files :
livescores.php
goal.php ( you can safely delete old goals.php )
standing.php ( you can safely delete standings.php)
en.css ( because of changed goal and standing class names)
images to be uploaded to your forum images directory.
If you are updating, its enough to replace those files with no further editing or installing.

[Oddjob]

Id love to see MLB with this.........

[Code Monkey]

me too

[chimaira]

Im going to be watching this very closely. one fine hack..

[Code Monkey]

Originally Posted by jluerken

This hack is only interesting if we can install it fully locally without routing anything trough your site.

I want to translate and modify it and can't do so now.

Also I hate the idea installing files on my system where I don't know what they're doing and transfering.

I didn't see that the frst time around. That's probably not a good idea around here.

[hyony]

Can u add Betting with Vbookie?

INSTALL

[nitro]

This is a very interesting addon but I am in agreeance with Rich and wonder why it cannot be fed direct, rather than from your site ?

I would begrudge installing a mod that uses someone elses affiliate id without at least being informed first.
That really takes the edge off it when you are able to add a donate button here with statements such as "Please donate to aid future development and improvemnts" I know not everyone donates but many who really appreciate top addons do.

[Zia]

really love it..

but doest it support Cricket ?
possible to cistomize for Cricket ?

[lebanon]

jluerken ,Rich, and nitro,
First, and logically to answer wether it can be harmfull, as a coding it cannot be ! as ANY CODE is actually excuted on my server not yours so that cannot harm your server in anyway and you coders should know that well !
Second, why is it routed through my website, well thats exactly what am trying to avoid as i DO NOT really like the fact of dependency on my site but also as many of you know , there is NO FREE LIVE rss feeds, and this is not free , am paying for this.
The only way to distibute a direct link to the feed is by distributing a zend encoded or ioncube encoded version, and in such case, it will then raise more questions wether its doing anything harmfull or not, as well as its not allowed by vborg in first place.

JumpD, i do have feeds for several other sports, but mainly i started with this because i love football (soccer to americans) so maybe ill add few other sports but first by releasing this on dependency on my website am really trying to figure out cons of this before i get myself on more stuff.

jluerken , to which translation you want to be ? currently i have a french feed of the same source but no more, as also note that am pulling through rss, thus you cannot translate everything !

[bashy]

Nice hack btw

Is it just me or is there no FA Cup and no live scores for the premiership (uk)??
Also where do i edit the Free Bet link please?

[lebanon]

bashy, am not sure if thats true, but the rss am subscribed to should provide all major leagues as well as many country leagues.
Ill compare with priemiership schedule and the rss feed and see if am missing it or its not available in first place, if you notice any missing leagues too please let me know. thx