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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[Zeke]

I have installed vBookie and have been using it.

Fantastic hack, probably the best hack actually! In fact, vBulletin should pay to license it for their next release.

My question.

I have been using it, but now it seems that in USERGROUPS the THREE options to enable vBookie voting etc for each group is not showing up. It shows up in MOST of my USERGROUPS radio button options/selections but does not in others. I have it selected correctly under the vBookie Area in my AdminCP so I have vBookie switched on, but cant see to see an area in the Registered Users group to make it active.

As I said, there was an area a week ago, now there is not... Any ideas? Would be very much appreciated. Alternatively, where in the dbase can I switch on vBookie betting for usergroup #2?

Thanks.

[Zeke]

can anyone tell me how i can manually change a usergroups axs to vbookie from the mysql db? thnx

I have the vbookie panel in the CUSTOM USERGROUPS so I can edit to make people able to create/bet on events, but it doesnt show the panel in the DEFAULT USERGROUPS. So ive no way at all to make my default users have access to bet. At present, only the mods can bet and that looks bad.

So any idea why it's doing that?

[Lizard King]

I have a question about uninstallation process. I uninstalled this modifications by applying all template and file edits to backwards. Now is it save to drop vbookie tables from database ? I have some closed bets.

[Kru]

I am getting the following error message: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/functions.php on line 3036

Any idea what I made wrong?

[Ock]

I've discovered a huge flaw in the way vBookie events work that allow someone to vote on any events at odds of his own choosing.

The way to do this, which i discovered by chance, is trivial: make a copy of the form - and edit it to change the odds, which are written in the webpage and not checked after submission.

I thought you should know, because someone wanting to exploit it could do so incredibly easily.

Is there any thoughts as to how to fix this??? Much thanks.

[WhiteOx2]

That's why I only let Mods add betting events.

[Ock]

Yeah, me too.

But any USER do this, as long they can bet on the event...

[djwins]

How will this hack affect forum performance?

[cashpath]

Originally Posted by nighteyes

Just so you know there's a HUGE FLAW in this hack. A user can just save a copy of the vbookie thread to their computer, point the form to the http:// address of the website and bet at whatever odds they choose.

The solution is not setting odds based on the hidden form variables:
<input type="hidden" name="odds2[1]" value="10">
<input type="hidden" name="odds2[1]" value="1">

But by taking the item id:
<input type="hidden" name="item_id" value="1680" />

And grabbing the current odds from the database itself.

Yes this flaw has already been pointed out the fix for it has already been pointed out also

[The Realist]

First time install and Im getting this database error with version 3.0.7 on install:

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.7:

Invalid SQL:
CREATE TABLE vbookie_groups (
group_id SMALLINT UNSIGNED DEFAULT '1' AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
group_title VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL
) TYPE=MyISAM

mysql error: Invalid default value for 'group_id'

mysql error number: 1067

Date: Sunday 10th of April 2005 12:48:51 PM
Script: http://www.xxxxxxxx.com/forums/admin...ie_install.php
Referer: http://www.xxxxxxxx.com/forums/admin...ie_install.php
Username:
IP Address:

Anyone?