Add-On Releases - vBookie for vBulletin 4

Please See the first post for a F.A.Q.
I will endevour to link to useful posts within this thread there as I spot them. You should check there before posting issues etc.

This is a port of vBookie for vBulletin 3.5 by Andreas which was a port of vBookie - vBulletin Betting Hack by tjdrico. Permission was given by tjdrico to port this.

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'.

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.

Install Instructions
1. Unzip product file
2. Upload files from 'Upload' folder to your forum
3. Install product XML
[S]4. Edit "newthread" template as per readme.txt ionstructions[/S]
5. Set usergroup permissions
6. Set vBookie settings
7. Enjoy.
8. Check out Dismounted's Activity Stream addon
9. Click Mark As Installed and Rate

Upgrade instructions
same as above, but undo edits made in point 4 if upgrading from pre 4.0.7! (see readme.txt for more info)

Version Control
4.0.0 (19 Jan '10 ) - Initial Release
4.0.1 (21 Jan '10 ) - Removed some junk from templates, added enable private bets option
4.0.2 (24 Jan '10 ) - fixed options for hiding vcash, added some more stuff to teh settings screen, added some vCash utilities (reset balances, give to everyone, set default balance) and fixed some template bugs.
4.0.3 (25 Jan '10) - fixed bugs I introduced in 4.0.2 see post #109
4.0.4 (25 Jan '10) - fixed time zone not being saved, can delete events, + plus a couple other things.
4.0.5 (Australia Day '10) - no longer uses bitfields for permissions, fixed vCash display, fixed stats page error
4.0.6 (27 Jan '10) - fixed TABLE PREFIX issue in vBookie stats page
4.0.7 (23 Mar '10) - fixed redirect bug when editing events, fixed display of cash holdings in events, added plugin to make template mods (no template mods needed now) and updated code to 4.0.2 standards, added hooks for vbcredits integration.
NOTE 0- if upgrading from pre 4.0.7, you will need to eitehr revert your "newthread" temp[late, or manually undo template edits as there is now a plugin which does this for you. Check teh readme.txt in the archive for more info.
4.0.8 (31 May '10) - hopefully fixed bug with updating number of outcomes when editing events. To upgrade from previous version (4.0.7) just overwrite vbookie.php
4.0.9 (25 July 10) - Added ability to select Reputation points for currency. Phrased had coded text. Fixed bug in displaying vCash balance in postbit.
4.2.0 (21 August 12) Added in navigation manager Code for vBulletin 4.2, disabled old nav plugin
4.2.1 (24 January 13) Added missing template, fixed Nav code, fixed some small bugs

[Sharkyman]

Originally Posted by DS MrSinister

I see you are using vBookie 4.0.6. upgrade to 4.0.9 see if that helps.


Under AdminCP

UserGroup and check each gruoup.

What am I checking for? There's no vbookie option. I'm the admin and I have no option to change to an "enable vbookie" or anything like that in the usergroups.

I'll try the 4.09 thing.

[DS MrSinister]

opps that's the old version about usergroup sorry about that.

[Sharkyman]

Got it working after updating to 4.09.

Ta.

[DS MrSinister]

Originally Posted by Sharkyman

Got it working after updating to 4.09.

Ta.

very welcome sir.

[mmacrypt]

Ok, I need some help. I just updated to 4.0.8 Vbull and as most of you know, that ++++ed some of the styles. I'm using one called Darkness that hasn't been updated yet so I've been changing the Stylevar line by line on my test server to figure out what controls what. I'm not very good at this, just doing what I can to make the live site look better. I think I got the home and forum pages looking pretty good but now I'm to the Bookie part of the site. I went though every line on the Stylevar to try to make it look better. I found 2 changes that change every link on the site including the Vbookie stuff. Not really what I want to do. Now I'm looking at the actual code from Vbookie and know I'm way over my head.

This is what I have right now. You can see the fighters names are just too light. I'm trying to figure out how to make this darker so it's actually visible.


I also have a few other little things but that's where I would like to start. Any help or a push in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. I'm guessing I need to change one of the Blockrow calls but clueless to which one or even where to start doing that.

thankyou
Brian

[dartho]

The stylevar stuff does my head in. I'd probably just edit the vbookie_resultbits and vbookie_outcomebits templates and change the lines of

<a href="vbookie.php?do=viewitem&amp;item_id={vb:raw item_id}">{vb:raw outcome.outcome}</a>

to

<a style="color:#000000;" href="vbookie.php?do=viewitem&amp;item_id={vb:raw item_id}">{vb:raw outcome.outcome}</a>

so that the links a plain black.

not best practice, but it works in a pinch

[mmacrypt]

thank you Dartho, I'll give it a try. I'm also going to play with a different style that's been updated to .8 and hope this darkness one is also updated. But again, thank you, I'll test it on my dummy site first.

[mmacrypt]

Again, thanks Dartho, with what you have me, I was able to fix just about all of them. I had to change a few more than you listed to make it work for my site but giving me that code did wonders so thanks again.

[Robbed]

This happens when the event is over. It display fine when the even is active.

Any ideas?

[mmacrypt]

I'm missing something, what does it look like before, that looks fine to me.

This is what mine looks like.