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')) 


[BirdOPrey5]

within 24 hours...

[SVTCobraLTD]

Nothing yet. Any thoughts why??

[BirdOPrey5]

Did you do this?

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)

If so what happened?

[SVTCobraLTD]

1 error I found yesterday was the poster's id was 0 instead of 1.

I did not click the test link

[BirdOPrey5]

Is this still working for anyone?

[Cindyl10]

Nope. I've tried everything. I've sent them several emails and get no reply at all from them. I'm given up, as I don't know what else to do, since I've already done everything possible that I can think of. When did yours quit working? I keep hoping they'll post here, but it's starting to look like they've dropped the ball and have no intention of picking it up again.

[BirdOPrey5]

Mine stopped working February 4th, 2012- that was the last day I got a game.

[Cindyl10]

Mine stopped in January as I recall, but that's probably because I changed the forum I was putting it in. Well, at least I know I only lost about a months worth of games and that it would have stopped working in another month anyway. Thanks for letting me know!

[Rap-royalty.com]

I am here to report that this mod is working. Gave it a test run and have had no issues. Here is today's game as a matter of fact.
http://www.rap-royalty.com/forum/tal...ment-17-a.html

3.7vb.

I would say just double check everything.

[Cindyl10]

Great! Maybe they've decided to fix it then. OK, I just registered for another shared key, will update my settings and see what happens. I sure hope it starts working for me again too.....I'll let you know.... (have already double, and triple checked everything else, so know everything's ok)