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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[Battle_Ring]

MySQL v4.0.12

[tjdrico]

In that case the CONVERT() above should work (but so should the +0 have). If it doesn't and you want to PM me the access details to your FTP or phpMyAdmin, I'll have a look and see if I can suss it out.

[tjdrico]

Are you sure the "+0" didn't work? According to a manual for MySQL 3.23:

MySQL automatically converts numbers to strings as necessary, and vice-versa:

mysql> SELECT 1+"1";
        -> 2

I can't see why they'd break that support in version 4.

[tjdrico]

OK, after checking your forum (thanks), I think the +0 did work fine:

Richest People
STYLES has a total of 8679484
2_Die_4 has a total of 46487
Chance has a total of 19603.25
Young Legend has a total of 16350
|?|KryptoniK|?| has a total of 9485

So I'll release a minor update with that fix in.

[Battle_Ring]

thanks for all your help nwo if i could get someone to help me wit hthe shoutbox and log in as user id be all set

[Battle_Ring]

ok so how does the best work if the odss are 1/1 they get doubtle there bet if they win???

what would
2/1
5/1
10.1

do???

[Battle_Ring]

problem

all permissiosn are set and my users get a white screen when trying to go to the vbookie.php page and when i post an event in the thread they cant see it

also no matter what ya put the pay out date always goes to the bets end date

[tjdrico]

Originally Posted by Battle_Ring

problem

all permissiosn are set and my users get a white screen when trying to go to the vbookie.php page and when i post an event in the thread they cant see it

also no matter what ya put the pay out date always goes to the bets end date

I just registered, and it displays fine for me (no "white screen"). However, there are no events listed. Are you sure you added one correctly?

Regarding the second item, did you clear the checkbox that specifies that you want them both to be the same date?

[Battle_Ring]

i got ti it didnt add the templates to all styles just one nwo i need to manually add them

is there a hack that adds templates to al lstyles i think there is but i cant find it

[tjdrico]

Originally Posted by Battle_Ring

ok so how does the best work if the odss are 1/1 they get doubtle there bet if they win???

what would
2/1
5/1
10.1

do???

If odds are 1/1, that means that for every 1 that's bet, you win 1 back. So if I placed a bet of 5 at 1/1, I'd win 5, and get my stake back.

Odds of 2/1 mean that you win 2 for every 1 placed. So if I placed a bet of 5 at 2/1, I'd win 10, and get my stake back as well.

Odds of 10/1 mean that you win 10 for every 1 placed. So if I placed a bet of 5 at 10/1, I'd win 50, and get my stake back as well.

Odds of 1/5 mean that you win 1 for every 5 placed. So if I placed a bet of 5 at 1/5, I'd win 1, and get my stake back as well.