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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[LoOnEyToOnZ]

Originally Posted by MrNase

you must be insane... how shall i translate that? dozens of templates, many phrases and some english text left in the file

Are you talking to me ? Kindly use a better tone towards me or anyone else

Shall i rephrase as "is it possible to use a 0 value inside the AdminCP Action Manager" ?

[MrNase]

ops sorry, i forgot a '' after the '...'

installed, translated and running, thank you

[tjdrico]

Originally Posted by LoOnEyToOnZ

Another question - Is the tax a compulsary amount to have ? Cause i had noticed that quite a few items, by default come with a tax amount. Is it okay if we get rid of all the taxes ?

Thanks

vBookie imposes no taxes.

[tjdrico]

Originally Posted by MrNase

you must be insane... how shall i translate that? dozens of templates, many phrases and some english text left in the file

Sorry for the bits that aren't in templates or phrases. That was just laziness on my part. I assure you that all the templates and phrases are there for a reason though. =)

[Tim Wheatley]

Can someone please tell me where/how I can hard code the userid of those I want to allow to post events? I don't want to risk the complications of setting up new usergroups, as some of those I want to post events are mods, some registered, etc etc. I don't expect this to be added to the hack, btu the knowledge would be useful to some.

[tjdrico]

Originally Posted by Tim Wheatley

Can someone please tell me where/how I can hard code the userid of those I want to allow to post events? I don't want to risk the complications of setting up new usergroups, as some of those I want to post events are mods, some registered, etc etc. I don't expect this to be added to the hack, btu the knowledge would be useful to some.

There are probably a couple of places you should do this. The first would be in newthread.php

There'll be a section like this:

PHP Code:

    if (!($forumperms & CANPOSTVBOOKIEEVENT))
    {
        unset($_POST['postvbookieevent']);
    } 


You could change that to something like:

PHP Code:

    if (!$bbuserinfo['userid'] != 126)
    {
        unset($_POST['postvbookieevent']);
    } 


Also:

PHP Code:

    if (($forumperms & CANPOSTVBOOKIEEVENT) && ($vbookiesettings['active'] != 0))
    {
        $show['vbookieevent'] = true;
    } 


To:

PHP Code:

    if (($bbuserinfo['userid'] == 126) && ($vbookiesettings['active'] != 0))
    {
        $show['vbookieevent'] = true;
    } 


That should hide the checkbox for adding a new event from everyone but the allowed user.

Then, in vbookie.php, find the section that starts:

PHP Code:

if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'newevent') 


Then, below that, find the lines:

PHP Code:

    if (!($forumperms & CANVIEW) OR !($forumperms & CANPOSTNEW) OR !($forumperms & CANPOSTVBOOKIEEVENT))
    {
        print_no_permission();
    } 


Change that to:

PHP Code:

    if (!($forumperms & CANVIEW) OR !($forumperms & CANPOSTNEW) OR !($bbuserinfo['userid'] == 126))
    {
        print_no_permission();
    } 


There will be a similar change to make in the section that starts:

PHP Code:

if ($_POST['do'] == 'postevent') 


Just search on 'CANPOSTVBOOKIEEVENT' to find the two locations.

I think that'd be enough, but it's just from my head and not tested in any way.

[stuc]

I keep getting the error

Parse error: parse error in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/forestforum.co.uk/httpdocs/forum/includes/init.php on line 516
Parsing functions.php Time before: 1087071117.6956 Time after: 1087071117.7328 Time taken: 0.037165880203247
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Processing sessions.php Time before: 1087071117.7334

which relates to this section

'stylecache', 
'arcadesettings', 
// +++ vBookie 
'vbookiesettings' 
// --- vBookie 
), $specialtemplates); 

		$datastoretemp = $DB_site->query("
			SELECT title, data
			FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "datastore
			WHERE title IN ('" . implode("', '", $specialtemplates)) . "')
		");

Any ideas?

[tjdrico]

I think the problem is this line:

PHP Code:

WHERE title IN ('" . implode("', '", $specialtemplates)) . "') 


Maybe you've edited it for some other hack, but I think it should be:

PHP Code:

WHERE title IN ('" . implode("', '", $specialtemplates) . "') 


i.e. you've ended up with an extra ) in there.

[stuc]

excellent that sorted it - no idea how i missed that!

excellent hack by the way i'm sure it will become an essential part of my forum.

(clicked install)

[BarHopper]

I need this hack!! I attempted it, but i messed up on msot of the file eidts,

Is anyone interested doing the file edits for me? Just the include ones? I'll pay