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]

Originally Posted by Battle_Ring

i just fully installed this

but it dont show up so i can add an event

any idea

i did the fiel edits and uplaoded them

Did you make sure that a) vBookie is turned on, and b) your user group has been given permission to create events? This is covered in the installation instructions, so please go over them and double-check that you've done those things.

[tjdrico]

Thanks to everyone that has installed this hack. It's good to know that the time spent on it has been appreciated by someone other than myself. =)

With Euro 2004 on the horizon, Wimbledon, the Tour de France, the Olympics and what-not, I'm sure that it'll be a fun addition to your forums.

Of course, you can place events on anything! Even Big Brother. /o\

[Battle_Ring]

yes vbookie is turned on and usergroupe permissions are set

[tjdrico]

You have probably missed a template edit or a file edit. Go through the installation instructions and double-check that you've done everything correctly.

[Battle_Ring]

i got it missed a template edit

[tjdrico]

There ya go! =)

[Battle_Ring]

foudn a bug or something

Richest members is way off

Creeper has a total of 990
Platinum~Pimp has a total of 98
|†|KryptoniK|†| has a total of 9485
shinoda has a total of 93
ºDissØrderlyº has a total of 9152

[dniMTheory]

^^same thing here. not only that, my times are all screwed up. The open until and payout dates are never right.

[tjdrico]

Are you using uCash?

If so, please make this edit if you wouldn't mind, and let me know:

Open includes/functions_vbookie.php

Find:

PHP Code:

$q = "SELECT u.username, p.".$vboptions['uttpoints_pointsfield']." AS cash FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . $vboptions['uttpoints_pointtable']." AS p LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user AS u ON u.userid=p.userid ORDER BY cash DESC LIMIT 5"; 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

$q = "SELECT u.username, p.".$vboptions['uttpoints_pointsfield']." AS cash FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . $vboptions['uttpoints_pointtable']." AS p LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user AS u ON u.userid=p.userid ORDER BY p.".$vboptions['uttpoints_pointsfield']." DESC LIMIT 5"; 


If that doesn't correct it, can you tell me what your uttpoints_pointsfield and uttpoints_pointtable are set to?

[tjdrico]

Originally Posted by dniMTheory

^^same thing here. not only that, my times are all screwed up. The open until and payout dates are never right.

What timezone are you in? Have you got the timezone set correctly? When you add an event or edit one, what timezone is in the timezone box? Have you tried setting that to the correct timezone? It should default to the timezone you have set in your User CP options.