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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[BullTaco]

Well thats my probelm...I do not see that when I click on new thread. I have the usergroups I want checked so they can use it..and I have it turned on in my adminpanel.

I got no errors when I installed it. Everything seems to be working...I just have no option to post a vbookie event.......I even went back and re did the newthread template portion..to make sure I did not do something wrong...

I am at a lost.

[BullTaco]

Well after much thought....I just went back to all the usergroups to check to make sure I had them set to "allow vbookie events"...they all we're.....so I just updated them...instead of baking out ofthem....and voila.....there they are!!

Thanks so much for the help!

[BullTaco]

Well...I shouldnt have been so fast....LOL

I can see it in some forums and not in others...I cant see a difference in settings of the forums....is there something in a particuliar forum is to why that would not show up in the newthread ??

[xjussix]

Any idea why the following code in the end of global.php causes " Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/functions.php" after upgrading from 3.0.5 to 3.0.6?

if (DB_QUERIES)
{
    $pageendtime = microtime();
    $starttime = explode(' ', $pagestarttime);
    $endtime = explode(' ', $pageendtime);
    $aftertime = $endtime[0] - $starttime[0] + $endtime[1] - $starttime[1];
    echo "End call of global.php: $aftertime\n";
    echo "\n<hr />\n\n";
}

// +++ vBookie
// get general settings for vBookie
$vbookiesettings = convert_bits_to_array($vbookiesettings,$_VBOOKIE);
// --- vBookie

/*======================================================================*\
|| ####################################################################
|| # Downloaded: 02:21, Fri Jan 21st 2005

[skinny]

Originally Posted by xjussix

Any idea why the following code in the end of global.php causes " Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/functions.php" after upgrading from 3.0.5 to 3.0.6?

if (DB_QUERIES)
{
    $pageendtime = microtime();
    $starttime = explode(' ', $pagestarttime);
    $endtime = explode(' ', $pageendtime);
    $aftertime = $endtime[0] - $starttime[0] + $endtime[1] - $starttime[1];
    echo "End call of global.php: $aftertime\n";
    echo "\n<hr />\n\n";
}

// +++ vBookie
// get general settings for vBookie
$vbookiesettings = convert_bits_to_array($vbookiesettings,$_VBOOKIE);
// --- vBookie

/*======================================================================*\
|| ####################################################################
|| # Downloaded: 02:21, Fri Jan 21st 2005

I had terrible problems with my functions.php file when I had to edit it. Try making the changes in a simple text editor like notepad or wordpad. I always have to when editing functions.php otherwise it adds spaces into the file which cause errors like you are having.

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[Roxie]

When I edit includes/adminfuctions_forum.php with this code:

// +++ vBookie
    print_description_row($vbphrase['vbookie_permissions'], 0, 2, 'thead', 'center');
    print_yes_no_row($vbphrase['can_post_vbookieevents'], 'forumpermission[canpostvbookieevent]', $forumpermission['canpostvbookieevent'], $extra);
    print_yes_no_row($vbphrase['can_edit_others_vbookieevents'], 'forumpermission[caneditothersvbookieevents]', $forumpermission['caneditothersvbookieevents'], $extra);
    print_yes_no_row($vbphrase['can_bet_on_vbookieevents'], 'forumpermission[canbet]', $forumpermission['canbet'], $extra);
    // --- vBookie

After this

 print_yes_no_row($vbphrase['can_vote_on_polls'], 'forumpermission[canvote]', $forumpermission['canvote'], $extra);

I get the attached. Notice the vbookie settings at the top. I have tried to fix it about 3 times. Any ideas? I'm not sure if it's causing any issues. Everything else seems to work. Although the settings in usergroup manager won't stick sometimes.

[Roxie]

Originally Posted by Lionel

The problem was in the bitfield. They were both using the same bitfield number. I doubled the other hack bitfield, and the permissions are holding and the other hack appears to be fine.

However, I am confused on how Vbookie works. I gave full permission to admin, and when I go to vbookie.php I do not see how to input a bet.

Thanks. This fixed 1/2 of my issue.

[teamgofast]

anyone help me with this?

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.6:

Invalid SQL:
CREATE TABLE 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

i had a template issue and tried to reinstall everything but get this error?

[Spikeh]

Hey all,

I installed this last night on my fresh install of 3.0.6 and everything seemed to go ok and I think I got everything working. However when I try and alter the setting in the ACP they just revert back to "No".

Anyone else get this problem and know how to sort it?