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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[tjdrico]

It looks like you've made the changes, but didn't upload the image to the correct place. You should have 'vbookie_posticon.gif' in images/misc.

[TTG]

Originally Posted by tjdrico

It looks like you've made the changes, but didn't upload the image to the correct place. You should have 'vbookie_posticon.gif' in images/misc.

.. I was just about to edit my post to say that I have placed the 'vbookie_posticon.gif' in images/misc .. your response was to fast ..

Sorted .. my skin uses a different path directory for images/misc

[tjdrico]

Cool. \o/

[Regs]

I've just been notified of a problem on my board that I *think* might be attributed to this great mod...

It appears that you can't add a normal poll when starting a new thread. Adding a vbookie event works no problem but users can't add a poll anymore. The only way to add a poll is to use the thread tools after the thread is posted.

Can anyone else confirm this?

Cheers,

~Regs.

[tjdrico]

Originally Posted by Regs

I've just been notified of a problem on my board that I *think* might be attributed to this great mod...

It appears that you can't add a normal poll when starting a new thread. Adding a vbookie event works no problem but users can't add a poll anymore. The only way to add a poll is to use the thread tools after the thread is posted.

Can anyone else confirm this?

I can't confirm any such problem with my own forum (3.0.0) where my members can still post polls as normal.

It could be that you made a small error in the code modifications - perhaps you replaced a piece of poll code instead of adding something after it.

[geovadim]

Vbookie should have an alternative to odds system: 1X2 betting system.

[Regs]

Originally Posted by tjdrico

I can't confirm any such problem with my own forum (3.0.0) where my members can still post polls as normal.

It could be that you made a small error in the code modifications - perhaps you replaced a piece of poll code instead of adding something after it.

Thanks Tjdrico,

I'll have a look at it over the next couple of weeks, just thought it might be a shot since everything else was working

Cheers,

~Regs.

[Mr. Brian]

Is there any way that I could reinstall this hack (If possible, the template will do)? Just like what ushop provided, with a reinstall scrip.

Many thanks in advance..

[Zach]

I dont want to think

But I can provide what this is missing very easily.

What I need to figure out is an easy way to do all this by cron.

[Zach]

Ok I wanted to seperate my thought - here is exactly in a perfect world what this would do. We get it here, and I will provide the missing half.

1. Everyday evening or morning, exact time a setting, the upcoming baseball games would be posted, automatically, same for basketball, hockey. Every Tuesday for NFL Football and NCAA Football.

For NFL for example, I guess it would have to be multiple threads, but it would autopost one for the over under, one for the money line, and one for the line. It would be really nice to have this be adjustable and keep track of adjustments, but that is probably to far of a leap for now.

When its autoposting the action it obviously sets the close time and all that jazz.

When the game is over and in the books, it autopays.

Would even be real slick to slide in halftime lines and such, but really that would be nothing if we could do the first part.

I can deliver the info (and it would be a delivery, not a five hundred forum slam me every ten seconds in hopes of something new grab). The scores, the lines, obviously the results, etc.