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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[SHARKY]

Originally Posted by bluesteel

Hi guys,

Brilliant add-on! My members love it.

At present I have a problem where events are showing up twice on the events page. (see attachment). I've searched this thread but couldn't find a similar problem.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanx in advance.

PS Further to this, it works out that the events show for the amount of bets placed on it. eg If 6 bets have been placed on an event, the event will show up 6 times.

i have the same problem with them showing up more than once is thier a fix for this?

[tjdrico]

Originally Posted by mcyates

ONE QUESTION:

When i post a vbookie event then look at the page (showthread) I have 3 uncached templates:

vbookie_event_table (1)
vbookie_oddsbits (10)
vbookie_outcomebits (10)

How can i make it so these are cached as each one will be making and extra querie to the database.

Thanks

Open showthread.php and add them to the $globaltemplates array (commented as 'pre-cache templates used by all actions'). I think that's all you need to do.

[tjdrico]

Originally Posted by dethfire

anymore updates on this, I found a few bugs

I've moved on to other bits and pieces, so haven't made any recent updates. Feel free to fix anything you see that's wrong, and post the information here. If there's anything that's really serious, I'll do an update for it.

[tjdrico]

Originally Posted by SHARKY

i have the same problem with them showing up more than once is thier a fix for this?

I think the problem is likely to be incorrect editing, rather than a problem. Only one other person has reported the same issue, and there have been at least 200 installations, plus more than aren't registered.

I recommend that you go through the hack instructions and verify that you did everything exactly as you should have.

[HarryBO]

Hi!

I have a little problem on my vbookie! I´ve installed that addon since 1 month! Sometimes it worked perfect & sometimes I can´t settle the events! In the Forum I can see the bookie, but in the vbookie it´s gone!

Any Idea what went wrong?

[Celtic_Mad]

How do I add vcash to someones username or edit a bet thats already over to tick more winning boxes?

[docvader]

Celtic, use this to add cash to people. It works fine, and is easy to install. However, you have to add each person's name individually, it would be nice to be able to "mass add" money to people, especially if you have a large foruml

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ighlight=gimme

One question of my own. I added an event during the setup, and not through a thread post, and now I can't seem to delete it. Or find it anywhere. Any ideas???

thanks. Awesome hack.

rich
russbo.com

[pgowder]

Is there a way to have a betting event like a parlay card? Where they have to get x number of bets right to win the points??

[docvader]

Well, this is a bit bizarre, and I don't know if it's related, nor where to look, but after I installed this betting thing into my Ushop (and it's working great; my members love it), I get this error when I, the admin, try to log into the ADMIN CP

Wrong username or password. You have used up your failed login quota! Please wait 15 minutes before trying again. Don't forget that the password is case sensitive. Forgotten your password? Click here!

Get that on the first time, with the correct password; got to wait fifteen minutes to attempt it again; usually it's successful after the fifteen minute time period. I don't understand this, as, eventually, I can log in successfully.

Does anyone know what file must have been changed to screw up entry into the admin area?

[Rabbitoh Warren]

I recently had a vBookie event on a cricket match which was washed out without a ball being bowled, but stupid me incorrectly settled bets using the no outcome option instead of the abandon event option. I want to manually refund users who bet on the event their vCash. Can someone tell me what QUERY I would need to run to make this happen? The gimme thing above didn't work for me. Thanks.