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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[Holidazed]

Maybe it is just me. Most likely it is.

I installed this on my vb3.01 system and set the user permissions to allow admins to do anything. I turned it on and set it to use ucash.

However, when I goto the site, login as an admin and goto the vbookie, I do not see any options at all to add an event? I double checked the instructions and it does nto appear that I have forgotten anything.

How do I add an event?

[tjdrico]

Have you tried reading the manual?

[PET]

tjdrico :

Another small sugestion. Posibility to add an image on bet GROUP.

For exemple, when you create a new bet, you put a group text. Like ENGLAND PREMIERSHIP, or something. How about posibility to use images instead of text ? So i won't writte ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP, i will just put the logo.

This is a small sugestion

Also, on the vBooking page, you have :

Currently showing OPEN Events. Switch to .....

There is OPEN, CLOSE, etc. What about ALL, that will show all the bets, closed, open, suspended, etc.

[tjdrico]

I would think that's entirely possible, PET. I can't recall offhand whether I parse BB code in the "group" text, but all I think I'd need to do is that, so that you could use [img]...[/img] and have it converted to HTML by the parser. Good suggestion.

The "ALL" option is easy to add, so I will.

[Holidazed]

OK, I did not see the link in the instructions for where the manual was located.

However, when I choose to post a new event, I get the following error.

Warning $botuserid is not set to the proper member ID

Now, I searched the documentation and all of the files that came with this hack saw no reference to $botuserid.

I searched the templates as well.

Help

[tjdrico]

Originally Posted by bitg

However, when I choose to post a new event, I get the following error.

Warning $botuserid is not set to the proper member ID

Now, I searched the documentation and all of the files that came with this hack saw no reference to $botuserid.

I searched the templates as well.

Help

$botuserid is absolutely nothing to do with vBookie, so I can't offer any help or ideas. I imagine you need to check whatever hack you've installed that uses that variable name.

[Mr. Brian]

Originally Posted by EA Junkie

I now get a blank page for vBookie after upgrading to vB 3.0.1 . I still have all the control panel options, but can't view vBookie.php . I had the same problem w/ uCash, but used the uninstall option and then reinstalled and everything worked fine...

Thanks in advance to any help.

I'm experiencing the same problem, hope someone can help.

Many many thanks in advance

[tjdrico]

I haven't installed 3.0.1, so I don't really have any ideas.

[sabret00the]

i'm on 3.0.1 and don't have that problem :urghh:

[Mr. Brian]

Originally Posted by tjdrico

I haven't installed 3.0.1, so I don't really have any ideas.

Any way I could reinstall this hack? Just like what ushop provided, with a reinstall scrip. (useful after upgrading vBulletin)

Many thanks in advance..

Originally Posted by sabret00the

i'm on 3.0.1 and don't have that problem :urghh:

Thats because you intalled this hack on a fresh 3.0.1.