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')) 


[kokoboten]

Are you using the postbit_legacy template by any chance?
In that case I guess you will need to make the same changes as in the code above

[chris&barb]

no, postbit screenshot attached

[DailyGame]

Originally Posted by chris&barb

no, postbit screenshot attached

What he means is that your vBulletin might be configured to use the postbit legacy template in which case you should edit the postpit_legacy template the same way you edited the postbit template.

[chris&barb]

ok ill look at it

[chris&barb]

Originally Posted by DailyGame

What he means is that your vBulletin might be configured to use the postbit legacy template in which case you should edit the postpit_legacy template the same way you edited the postbit template.

Ok says it working now after i edited all styles postbit legacy templates.

Thanks!

[kokoboten]

good job

[Itchy Nips]

works great. got my daily game this morning.

[Forumi Shqiptar]

tagged for the time being will check it at a later date but looks good

[chris&barb]

Working just fine for me

[DailyGame]

Hi all

We have updated the mod - now it has more customization options and doesn't require manual template edits.

If you wish to upgrade to the new version you should download the attached files, replace add_daily_game.php and import the product xml file (after removing the previous version). Make sure you have the shared key before the update.

If you still need help post a reply here or send a PM - we will gladly assist