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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[Lionsault]

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

Just remove the "DEFAULT '1'"

How do I go about doing that? :speechless:

I'm new to vB.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

In your admincp/vbookie_install.php file,

Find:

PHP Code:

            group_id SMALLINT UNSIGNED DEFAULT '1' AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, 


and replace by:

PHP Code:

            group_id SMALLINT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, 


Then find:

PHP Code:

            item_id MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED DEFAULT '1' AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, 


and replace by:

PHP Code:

            item_id MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, 


Then:

PHP Code:

            option_id MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED DEFAULT '1' AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, 


replace by:

PHP Code:

            option_id MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, 


Then:

PHP Code:

            bet_id MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED DEFAULT '1' AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, 


replace by:

PHP Code:

            bet_id MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, 


[redspider]

ok I installed this and having problem to create a event
I set all permit and everytime I try to post a new event I can see the preview
and when I click ok nothing happen vbookie dont show a news event in the list .
sorry for my poor english I trying my best and really need this working is the 5 time I install and try and same result.

[Lionsault]

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

In your admincp/vbookie_install.php file,

Find:

PHP Code:

            group_id SMALLINT UNSIGNED DEFAULT '1' AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, 


and replace by:

PHP Code:

            group_id SMALLINT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, 


Then find:

PHP Code:

            item_id MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED DEFAULT '1' AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, 


and replace by:

PHP Code:

            item_id MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, 


Then:

PHP Code:

            option_id MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED DEFAULT '1' AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, 


replace by:

PHP Code:

            option_id MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, 


Then:

PHP Code:

            bet_id MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED DEFAULT '1' AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, 


replace by:

PHP Code:

            bet_id MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, 


Thank you, Marco, it worked!

[Lionsault]

OK, I installed it, but I cannot access vBookie.php from the navbar, and when I go to make vBookie active, I click yes, however it automatically resets to No.

[mcyates]

Is it possible to show the last 3 or 4 best on forum home (just the title of the bets) so it would look like this:

[Middlesbrough v Liverpool] [Newcastle v Arsenal] [Chelsea v Manchester United]

This would save me manually putting these on the header.

Thanks in advance.

[303Nate]

Originally Posted by wcbryant

Definitely curious about that as well. I consider it one of my "must have" hacks that will have to be 3.5 ready before I move my site over. Would love to see Rico update it, or failing that, someone capable getting permission from him to do so. With RC1 live on vb.com today, we're rapidly approaching the point where people are going to have to take steps to convert their sites over if that's the direction they're going.

I just PM'd him on his forum asking him just that. I'll let everyone know what he responds.

[murrtex]

hi guys ..i installed this hack.there is no error.but how can i start the betting.
i mean how can i do a new bet.???

i mean i am lookin for




that section..where is there how can i go there?

[cuphongle]

yea, i set that admin can post new bet event...
but how do i post new bet event?
thanks

[cuphongle]

Originally Posted by theo

actually after further investigation my forums are back up and running but i cant access threads.

this is teh error

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/richard/public_html/forums/showthread.php on line 954


and this is the code affected

// +++ vBookie
$_VBOOKIE = array(
'active' => 1,
'ucash' => 2,
'cashon' => 4,
'givetopoor' => 8,
'usepetz' => 16
);
// --- vBookie


line 954 is this bit

// --- vBookie


help again please

can you paste the first 10 lines prior to that?