News

05.08.2007 - Version 1.0.1 released - It is a bug-fix release. The demo betoffice will be updated in the next days.
What's new? The sequence of the categories can be changed in the backend.

24.01.2007 - Documentation added

21.01.2007 - The 1.0 version has been released, and there is a new website online with a demo bet-office for testing purposes http://betster.anarchotronik.com, which runs better than the old one on the sourceforge server. The usernames are "admin", "user1", "user2" and "user3" and the password is "12345" for all. Join it!

24.08.2006 - Betster 1.0 beta released

06.05.2006 - Betster beta tests started

What is Betster?

Betster is an OpenSource Software to create a online bet office based on PHP and MySQL. The system works with variable Quotes and a totalisator. You bet not for money but with credits. The initial amount of credits which a user gets at the registration you can choose. The admin can manage the bets, he is the bookmaker of the bet office, he manages the categories and administrate the users. Betster needs PHP >= 4.3 and a MySQL database >= 2.23 to run without problems.

The following image shows how an example bet is displayed in the browser.

Features

Demo

You can find out how betster works under http://betster.anarchotronik.com. The usernames are admin, user1, user2, user3. The password is always 12345. You can execute, create and edit bets and categories. Have fun.

Screenshots

The following screenshots demonstrate how a user executes a bet, how the admin inserts a bet, while he is choosing the start date for the bet and a list of transactions done by the users. The red transactions are won bets.

Download

Actual release

betster-1.0.1.tar.gz
betster-1.0.1.zip

Older releases

betster-1.0.tar.gz
betster-1.0.zip
betster-1.0-beta.tar.gz
betster-1.0-beta.zip

Installation

You need a Webspace with a PHP Version >= 4.3 and a MySQL Database with version > 2.23, your Websver also needs a loaded GD-Module as a PHP exension to provide the GD-Libraries for image manipulations. More Information: http://www.libgd.org/. Normally this feature is enabled. You can check it with the phpinfo() command. For the installation follow these instructions:


  1. Download the newest version
  2. Extract the files from the betster folder into your webspace
  3. Change the permissions for the folders "images/bet", "images/category", "images/bet/tmp" and "images/category/tmp" to 755 or 766 or 777
  4. Create a MySQL Database
  5. Insert the query from the file query.sql (which you find in the betster folder) into your Database
  6. Edit the configuration.php file how you like it. There you can edit Title, Subtitle, etc. of your bet-office. Don't forget to insert the database name, host, username and password and the smpt host, username and password.
  7. Call index.php with your browser
  8. Log in as admin with the password 12345 and change quickly your password
  9. Eventually read the documentation

If you have problems simply write a mail to bet@anarchotronik.com or post in the forum.

Configuration

You can configure your bet-office in the file configuration.php. There is a description about the meanings of the different values.

ToDo

License

Betster is licensed under the GPL

Contact

bet@anarchotronik.com