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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[dynamite]

Care to share what you did amairiya?

[RMS-Chef]

He probibly just made sure the last one did NOT have a comma.
Like:

'stylecache', 
'vbookiesettings',
'utt_store_act'
), $specialtemplates);

[tjdrico]

Originally Posted by romeshomey

OK, I figured out how to edit amounts won, etc..

What can I do to add a date stamp to bets that are made so I can see date and time they are placed?

The 'vbookie_bets_placed' table already has this information in the 'bet_placed TIMESTAMP' field.

[yobajufa]

Is anyone available to do vbookie customization for $.

pm me if you are!

YJ

[joshskeety]

I get this error message when installing.. It gets to the "do database modifications" part and then I get..

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.1:

Invalid SQL:
CREATE TABLE vb3_vbookie_groups (
group_id SMALLINT UNSIGNED DEFAULT '1' AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
group_title VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL
) TYPE=MyISAM

mysql error: Invalid default value for 'group_id'

mysql error number: 1067

Any solutions?

Josh

[TTG]

Originally Posted by yobajufa

Is anyone available to do vbookie customization for $.

pm me if you are!

YJ

Should be easy to change the graphic "$" to suit your particular currency.

I changed mine to ? .. take a look here

[Intex]

tjdrico - if you select to use the Petz money and the uCash option, will it automatically increase and decrease both? I'd like to use both at the same time, but wanted to know if this would cause any problems.

[xjussix]

Thanks for this great hack.

I have a little problem unfortunately. At our forum the users can choose between two different styles. Clicking on vBookie link (or anything vBookie related) while using style #2 results in a completely blank page. Then I noticed that this particular style doesn't have those custom templates which style #1 has and it's probably the reason for this problem. In fact, style #1 is the only one which has those custom templates. I do have other styles too but those can't be selected.

Does anyone have any ideas how to fix it? Both styles are child styles of the original vBulletin 3 style.

[vajb]

I installed 3.0.3 fresh, installed the Arcade, Petz, Shoutbox and finally vBookie.

All worked perfectly pre-vbookie but when i try to reach the vBookiepage from the dropdown menu the "main" part of the view goes white, same goes for "Usergroup manager", that page is also blank.

Now - where did I do something wrong, almost completly certain i followed the procedure to the full extent, must've missed somewhere, anyone care to take a guess? Don't fancy reinstalling, but guess I'll have to after all

[edit]

Reinstalled VB3 & vBookie, usergrouppages work, vBookie from the nav-menu is white.

Only thing strange in the usergroup manager is that I can't set all 3 options concerning vBookie to Yes.

if i set them all to yes one or two of them turns up as No next time I check administrator permissions

[PET]

tjdrico - we want new version...we want new version