Free Bet

A simple PHP application to provide a betting system for sports events. You can easily install it in your company to have fun and see who is the best forecaster. For now, it focus on the 5 major european soccer league.

You can see a running demo on free-bet.bouzekri.net english version. The french translation is also available.

Prerequisites

A clean LAMP installation.

Warning : Here, M stands for MongoDB. You must have it installed with the php module.

For my environment development, I followed the MongoDB installation documentation : Read the doc.

For Mongo, run as root :

• Import the public key used by the package management system.

apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7F0CEB10

• Create a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb.list file for MongoDB.

echo 'deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/debian-sysvinit dist 10gen' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb.list

• Reload local package database.

apt-get update

• Install the MongoDB packages.

apt-get install mongodb-org

For PHP Mongo client on Debian, run as root :

echo "deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get install php5-mongo

For PHP Mongo client on Ubuntu, run as root :

apt-get install php5-mongo

The VirtualHost for apache is a standard one for symfony2

Installation

The following vhost is for apache 2.4. Adapt the Require section for old apache version.

Install and configure your symfony2 app

cd /var/www
git clone https://github.com/jbouzekri/free-bet.git --recursive
cd free-bet
php composer.phar install
php app/console assetic:dump
chown www-data:www-data app/{cache,logs} -R
chmod ug+rwx app/{cache,logs} -R
php app/console doctrine:mongodb:schema:create --db --index --collection
php app/console doctrine:mongodb:fixtures:load

Add the virtual host

vim /etc/apache2/site-available/free-bet.conf


<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName <your hostname>

    DocumentRoot /var/www/free-bet/web
    <Directory /var/www/free-bet/web>
        # enable the .htaccess rewrites
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error-free-bet.log
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access-free-bet.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Enable the virtual host

/etc/apache2/sites-enabled
ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/free-bet.conf
service apache2 restart

Go to the hostname configured. You can logged in as admin with the account admin/admin.

There is a cron task to configure. This task process all ended events and their gambles to determine which are winners.

php app/console gamble:process

You can launch it every hour for example

Roadmap

This is a work in progress so it is not finish. Coming soon :

• User grouping and bet sharing
• Social network submission
• Complex Stats on events and competition : per person, and per group