vBookie - vBulletin Betting Hack

vBookie

Introduction

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'. However, vBookie also comes with a built-in switch to allow it to use either uCash or Petz money instead. That means that all bets are paid for and settled using uCash or Petz money, making betting even more attractive than just for fun on forums with uShop/Petz installed. 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.

Features

• master switch to turn vBookie off
• option to use uCash
• option to use Petz money
• settings to restrict the creation of Events to specific user groups
• settings to restrict which user groups can bet on Events
• settings to restrict which user groups can edit or settle other people's Events
• per-Event, specify whether punters may bet on more than one outcome
• optional 'charity mode' so that the poorest members of the forum always have something to play with
• supplied with a module for vBadvanced

Please click if you install this hack, thanks. Please also let me know - send me an email or a PM. If you'd let me know the forum URL too that'd be cool!

vBookie is free, and will remain free.

Updates

1.0.0 -> 1.0.1

- adds the ability to delete Events. See this post for upgrade instructions if you already have 1.0.0

1.0.1 -> 1.0.2

Corrected a minor bug with the charity mode when using uCash. See this post for manual upgrade instructions from 1.0.1.

1.0.2 -> 1.0.3

Corrected a minor bug with the richest people display when using uCash. Just overwrite includes/functions_vbookie.php with the one from the new Zip file.

1.0.3 -> 1.0.4

Corrected some date display problems when using "Detailed" dates. For manual update instructions, see this post.

Corrected Petz bug whereby all winnings were paid to the bet's owner rather than individual winners. To upgrade from 1.03 or earlier, see this post or overwrite includes/functions.vbookie.php with the 1.0.4 version.

Problems?

-> Petz - If you are using Petz there is a bug in all versions up to and inclusing 1.0.3. Your players won't get paid their winning, and all payouts will end up in the account of the person that posted the Event. To correct this, please see this post. This fix will be incororated into 1.0.4 onwards.

-> If you can't post Events, or can't bet on them make sure you have set your user permissions

-> If you have an SQL error Invalid SQL: UPDATE SET =25 WHERE <25 make sure you are using version 1.0.3 or later.

-> If you have any other general problems, please check the installation/hack instructions and make sure you have carried out all the steps and also check that you made the changes correctly

Anything else, ask in this thread.

Other Stuff

-> If you are using Detailed Date & Time display and have a problem with Event dates appearing as '1 Minute Ago', see this post.

-> If you want to use poster 'Reputation' as the currency for vBookie, see this post.

About Odds

Odds of "5/1" are "amount won per amount placed". This means that I would win 5 for every 1 placed. Of course, if I win, I get my stake back as well. Odds of "1/5" means that I win 1 for every 5 placed. I'd have to place 25 to win just 5.

Decimal Odds

Decimal odds are just another way of displaying the same information. 2.0 is the same as 2/1. 0.2 is the same as 1/5. vBookie only lets you specify odds in terms of x/y, but if you think in terms of decimal you can still work out what odds to provide. Simply think of your decimal odds as "2.0 / 1.0" or "0.5 / 1.0" and then multiply each side through by 10 or 100 until there are only zeros to the right of the decimal point, then just take the whole number part.

2.0 / 1.0 has no decimals, so this is the same as 2/1

0.5 / 1.0 has a 0.5, so multiply both parts by 10 to get 5.0 / 10.0. Then you can specify your odds as 5 / 10. You might also realise that this is the same as 1/2. The technique is a simple way to work out any odds you may need to specify.

Odds of 0.65 -> 0.65 / 1.0 -> 65.0 / 100.0 or 65/100. Then you can divide through by 5 to get to 13 / 20, although this step isn't necessary.


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[y2krazy]

/me clicks install!

[KevinSHOCK]

Originally Posted by KevinSHOCK

ok i dont know if this has been covered cause this thread is huge, but i use ucash, and the vbookie works and all but its using its own money system and not the ucash like i selected it to use in the vbookie control panel, help is GREATLY appreciated.

i hate to be a bother, but i really need this fixed as the members want to use this hack. thanks again

[Mombos]

just installed 1.0.4 - seems to be working ok not really tested it alot yet seems good though,

although i have one problem though, in the adminCP there is no menu on the left for me to get into the settings for it, any idea what i might have done as i have checked the edited files and they all seem ok, any ideas?

thanks
Rob

[apokphp]

You didn't edit forums/admincp/index.php correctly, or not at all.

[apokphp]

Installed. Great hack. Works well on vb 3.0.3 (just took some time finding some of the code that had changed since the code has changed since 3.0.0).

However, it isn't sending pm's or emails to those who have placed bets, to notify them of the bet being settled.

The vbookie_email_betsettledbody template says:

Hello $bbuserinfo[username],

Your bet on ... has been settled. You won:

Yours,
$vboptions[bbtitle] team

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Unsubscription information:

Tired of these email notifications? Turn them off in your vBookie settings.

But there are no vBookie settings for members that enable/disable email alerts. Wuttup?

[apokphp]

Also, how can I place betting limits? I think someone else asked about this previously, but I don't recall seeing a response. I'd like to be able to limit the amount of bets at times, for specific bets. Is this possible?

[Mombos]

Originally Posted by apokphp

You didn't edit forums/admincp/index.php correctly, or not at all.

i have sorted the problem now

inside admincp/index.php

there is 2 lines which match this one
if (can_administer('canadminstyles'))

i added the construct nav commands at the wrong part of the doc.

all sorted now though

[apokphp]

Also, there seems to be an error when calculating "Total Amount Staked".

While for the individual outcomes, it calculates it fine...it is in the top summary of each event that it miscalculates. Instead of adding up all that has been staked...it doubles the actual total staked in each outcome.

If you click info, then add up for each outcome, the "Total Amount Staked" column...it should equal the amount in the summary, correct? Instead, the summary has this amount X2 for some reason.

[kall]

Originally Posted by Mombos

i have sorted the problem now

inside admincp/index.php

there is 2 lines which match this one
if (can_administer('canadminstyles'))

i added the construct nav commands at the wrong part of the doc.

all sorted now though

You shouldn't have 2 instances of if (can_administer('canadminstyles'))...on a fresh vBs admincp/index.php that line is used to show the style settings to those admins with permission to administer styles.

One other point to note is that 3.0.3s includes/functions_showthread.php lacks the

PHP Code:

// ###################### Start getreputationimage ####################### 


So, instead, find

PHP Code:

require_once('./includes/functions_reputation.php'); 


and add the required bit under that.

[KevinSHOCK]

can someone please answer my problem i posted, the vbookie cant be used correctly until this is fixed