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')) 


[MagicThemeParks]

Test worked!

DEMO: http://www.waltdisneyboards.com/fun-...03-tetris.html

Looks like the folks over on my site are gonna have fun with this one! :up:

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by MagicThemeParks

Test worked!

DEMO: http://www.waltdisneyboards.com/fun-...03-tetris.html

Looks like the folks over on my site are gonna have fun with this one! :up:

If nobody else has been enjoying them on my board, I sure have been.

[MagicThemeParks]

Me too! :up:

I've loved the last three and today's was fun (Woobie)

[MagicThemeParks]

Haven't had a game posted since April 28th. Is this not working any longer?

[snowlion]

It's still work for me. Check your Moderation Threads

[MagicThemeParks]

Strange, nothing in moderation.

Any other suggestions?

[DailyGame]

Hi

Please PM your site's url, I'll find the problem

[MagicThemeParks]

PM sent, thank you for the help :up:

[MagicThemeParks]

No resolution as of yet. My members are missing this and I'm missing it too

I now get the following on http://www.waltdisneyboards.com/add_daily_game.php

Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in [path]/includes/init.php(304) : eval()'d code on line 11
Request accepted. Wrong secret key

I requested a new shared key in case that was the issue, updated the settings and then clicked for the test game and nothing yet.

Any other suggestions?

[DailyGame]

Originally Posted by MagicThemeParks

No resolution as of yet. My members are missing this and I'm missing it too

I now get the following on http://www.waltdisneyboards.com/add_daily_game.php



I requested a new shared key in case that was the issue, updated the settings and then clicked for the test game and nothing yet.

Any other suggestions?

Hey,
Since the problem is not caused by our code I can't really help. I suppose the problem is caused by another plugin that is either badly installed or has compatibilities issues.

You can disable one plugin at a time and try to post a daily game using the link you got in the mail.

Good luck...