Mini Mods - Daily Game - Posts a new flash game to your vBulletin every day

Daily Game posts a new flash game to your vBulletin once per day in a new thread. Daily Game will help your vBulletin by:

• Starting up conversations on slow days
• Increasing retention since users are playing on your forum
• Help you get links and improve SEO (flash games get a lot of links!)
• Make you money! Use your own ad code to display an ad while the flash game is loading. These pre-roll ads get very high eCPM!

Install time: 5 minutes
Installation difficulty: Easy
Demo: http://www.playedonline.com/forum/showthread.php?t=40

Updated to version 1.5 : No manual template modifications and title and content customization

Updated to version 2.1 : simple_xml support is no longer required, enabled bbcodes on the game thread, support for switched off boards.

Installation instructions

1. Upload add_daily_game.php to the vBulletin root directory
2. Import the product XML file (Plugins & Products -> Manage Products - > [Add/Import Product])
3. Configure the Daily Game settings under vBulletin Options -> vBulletin Options -> Daily Game:
   • Set ?Enabled? to Yes
   • Visit www.playedonline.com/register_vbulletin to register (input your forum's url and your email) and get a shared key for authentication.
   • Configure which userid will post the daily games (input 0 for guest)
   • Choose a forum for Daily Game
   • Customise the title (useful for non-English forums) or leave blank for default
   • Enable or disable description and instructions
   • Paste ad code (e.g. AdSense) to show a pre-roll ad before the game starts (optional, leave empty to show no ads)
   • Click the Test link you got in the registration e-mail to post a test daily game (you can delete the test post after you verify that it works)
   • You're done! A daily game will be posted on your forum every day at 3am EST.
4. Optional : if you switch off your vBulletin from time to time you can make sure the games are posted even if the board is off by making those small changes:
   • Add the following code to /includes/functions.php
     
     PHP Code:

     function endswith($string, $test) {
    $strlen = strlen($string);
    $testlen = strlen($test);
    if ($testlen > $strlen) return false;
    return substr_compare($string, $test, -$testlen) === 0;
} 

   • In global.php find the line
     
     PHP Code:

     if (!$vbulletin->options['bbactive'] AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'login') 

     and replace with
     
     PHP Code:

     if (!$vbulletin->options['bbactive'] AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'login' AND !endswith($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"], '/add_daily_game.php')) 


[scottct1]

I havent got a new game since the 20th, is anyone else having an issue?

[squall leonhart]

I install the pluggin into my site: http://www.dienanh.net/forums/ but when I test, it errors:
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An error occured : Sending to http://www.dienanh.net/forums/ (ID: 2692)(Version 2) ->
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I tried the link: http://dienanh.net/forums/add_daily_game.php
and get this message although I update the shared key:
Request accepted. Wrong secret key

[snowlion]

scottct1: check your Moderated Thread
squall leonhart: the game will be automatically posted around 4pm-5pm at GMT+7.
You can't test that way.

[BirdOPrey5]

Installed... the test game worked fine so I'm hoping for the best. :up:

Does everyone signed up for this system get the same game each day or is it random?

[BirdOPrey5]

Any way to set a "Post Icon" for when the game is posted?

[DailyGame]

Hi, the games are selected daily and you will never get the same game

Where is that "Post Icon" you would like to change?

[BirdOPrey5]

When you start a new thread you get to select a post icon, something like: or

Just curious if there is a way to pick a post icon for the daily game post?

[Digital Jedi]

Do the games all have associated thumbnail images, by any chance? The reason I ask, is because I have a few features on the site that pull images from a thread. If they do have associated images, I was wondering if you could included them in a hidden DIV inside the post. They would not be visible when viewing the post, but scripts that look for images would include them when generating thumbnails.

I do the same for RSS feeds from YouTube. I put the extra info YouTube supplies, which includes a thumbnail from the video. When it posts, you don't see the extra info, but things like my articles forum or my Wibiya Bar's recent posts display the image as a thumb.

[SamirDarji]

Neat idea. Making a note to check it out later.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by SamirDarji

Neat idea. Making a note to check it out later.

Been using it about 3 months now, works great IMO.