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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[tjdrico]

Originally Posted by GamerzWorld

what do you get to start with? Also can you loose all your cash?

If you're using uCash or Petz, people start off with whatever they have. If using vCash, it starts at 500. Yes, people can lose all their "money", but there's a "charity" setting that gives 25 to anyone poorer than that whenever a new bet event is added, so people always have something to play with so they can build up a new pot.

[deathemperor]

Originally Posted by xQuEeNzNaZcHox

OK, I fixed problem B, but problem A is bad.

Screenshot is attached

try this:
- check the links to the JS files.
- view the source to see if there is something like this:
<a style="float:right" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumbit_forumid')"><img id="collapseimg_forumbit_72" src="/buttons/collapse_tcat.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a> , check to see if it got something wrong with those tags.
hope this help

[rinkrat]

Can this be modded to use VB reputation points as the currency? That would be perfect for my board.

[tjdrico]

Originally Posted by rinkrat

Can this be modded to use VB reputation points as the currency? That would be perfect for my board.

Yes, that's quite possible.

All you'd need to do is hack the functions_vbookie.php file, changing the 8 instances of 'vbookie_cash' to 'reputation'. That should be all you need to do. You might want to alter some of the phrases as well, as they mention 'cash' such as "You do not have enough cash to cover your bets" (vbookie_not_enough_cash) or "You have 300 cash" (vbookie_may_bet), etc.

Also, in the vBookie general settings, turn off the display of vCash in the postbit, as it'd be pointless to display. Since you're dealing with Reputation, you'd also want to turn off the "charity" mode I expect, as that would re-set anyone lower than 25 to a 25 Reputation each time a new Event is added.

[Ronso Rage]

Ok I have a small proble in the changes to the includes/init.php file you say to carry out these changes

OPEN includes/init.php

FIND
PHP Code:

PHP Code:

'stylecache' 
        ), $specialtemplates); 


REPLACE WITH
PHP Code:

PHP Code:

'stylecache', 
            // +++ vBookie 
            'vbookiesettings' 
            // --- vBookie 
        ), $specialtemplates); 


Well I have the arcade installed and have 'arcadesettings' in that area to replace as well, and leaving it there gives me a parse error, i have tried moving it around and still get the error

Any ideas ?

[tjdrico]

You should end up with something like this:

PHP Code:

            'stylecache', 
            'arcadesettings',
            // +++ vBookie 
            'vbookiesettings' 
            // --- vBookie 
        ), $specialtemplates); 


As long as there's a comma after 'arcadesettings', it should be fine.

[Ronso Rage]

Originally Posted by tjdrico

You should end up with something like this:

PHP Code:

            'stylecache', 
            'arcadesettings',
            // +++ vBookie 
            'vbookiesettings' 
            // --- vBookie 
        ), $specialtemplates); 


As long as there's a comma after 'arcadesettings', it should be fine.

Thanks it's all sorted now and seems to be running fine, i just forgot the comma (stupid me)

[CarolinaKid]

This would be really great if there was a way to use paypal or another online bank so u could deposit real money....but i guess that would be gambling

[tjdrico]

As I said early in this thread, I'm sure it's possible for someone to hack in. I, however, wouldn't feel confident about doing a bulletproof, un-exploitable hack, so it's not for me.

[Battle_Ring]

i just fully installed this

but it dont show up so i can add an event

any idea

i did the fiel edits and uplaoded them