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')) 


[TheInsaneManiac]

Will google adsense work in the advertisement area?

[DailyGame]

Yes definitely, just make sure you comply Google's terms of service

[Koroku]

I added it, and we're having fun with it

http://forums.dats.us/forumdisplay.php?f=222

[DailyGame]

A new version is released - with more customization options and several fixes for the installation
Make sure to check it!

[Prettyeyes4you]

Trying this now on our test forum, very interested to see this

Thanks:up:

[Itchy Nips]

I noticed I didnt get a flash game today. We'll see if tomorrow its back to normal.

[chris&barb]

I havent gotten one for two days now. I guess we have to do the updates to start getting them again? Can you tell us what we are supposed to do with the update, just overwrite i guess?

[Ski-Whiz]

I'm using Akismet spam management and it keeps moderating my daily thread.

I have set the threshold which should be bypassing the spam scanning (per the spam settings), however it's still being scanned and moderated..

[iMageREAL]

Originally Posted by chris&barb

I havent gotten one for two days now. I guess we have to do the updates to start getting them again? Can you tell us what we are supposed to do with the update, just overwrite i guess?

Ya i hadnt recieved a game in a couple days either,i just upgraded now to the new release,see if i get one tonight now, i will post more feedback tomorow if i did

and thats all i did was overwrite the .php and .xml

[weindians]

i installed this... everything according to given steps... test link said "The test game should now appear in your forum".. but test games didnt appear... i given a suboforum in one of main forum sections.. i have root @ www.sitedomain.com and forum home @ www.sitedomain.com/forum/index.php.... i have the php file @ /forum/....will see in 24 hours..