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')) 


[Itchy Nips]

thanks, i'll try it now.

update:
it works great. thanks!

[chris&barb]

Where exactly am i supposed to place the above code?

I found this

PHP Code:

<!-- message -->
<div id="post_message_$post[postid]">
    $ad_location[ad_showthread_firstpost_start]
    $post[message]
</div>
<!-- / message --> 


But im not sure what im supposed to replace with this

PHP Code:

<if condition="$thread[forumid] == $vboptions[daily_game_forum] AND $post[userid] == $vboptions[daily_game_poster]">
    $post[pagetext]
<else />
    $post[message]
</if> 


Does this go after something or do i actually replace something?

[DailyGame]

Replace:

PHP Code:

$post[message] 


With:

PHP Code:

<if condition="$thread[forumid] == $vboptions[daily_game_forum] AND $post[userid] == $vboptions[daily_game_poster]">
    $post[pagetext]
<else />
    $post[message]
</if> 


[chris&barb]

Forget it i found where to add the code but when i go to you site to test it says "Exception : 404 Not Found"

[DailyGame]

Originally Posted by chris&barb

Forget it i found where to add the code but when i go to you site to test it says "Exception : 404 Not Found"

Did you upload the php file to your forum root?

[chris&barb]

Yes, i just tested again and now it says "The test game should now appear in your forum" but nothing shows. The user ID is set to mine and the forum to be posted in is our off topic forum

[chris&barb]

its working now! thanks ill give feedback in a few days

[chris&barb]

Sorry for yet another post but this is how the game shows up

http://www.reef-geeks.com/forums/gee...test-game.html

[DailyGame]

That means that your postbit template was not edited correctly. Did you replace $post[message] with

PHP Code:

<if condition="$thread[forumid] == $vboptions[daily_game_forum] AND $post[userid] == $vboptions[daily_game_poster]"> 
    $post[pagetext] 
<else /> 
    $post[message] 
</if> 


[chris&barb]

yes. this is what the whole section looks like

PHP Code:

<!-- message -->
        <div id="post_message_$post[postid]">
            $ad_location[ad_showthread_firstpost_start]
            <if condition="$thread[forumid] == $vboptions[daily_game_forum] AND $post[userid] == $vboptions[daily_game_poster]">
    $post[pagetext]
<else />
    $post[message]
</if>  
        </div>
        <!-- / message -->